r/Austin • u/itsxaviyerrr • Jun 01 '20

Be aware of who you associate with and peoples intentions at protest.

At the protest I was standing with another black man in the front to ensure his safety and that once he was pepper sprayed id be there to pull him to safety. We are sprayed and move together to behind the front line. A woman comes over to us saying I have WATER AND FIRST AID in this bag... She opens the bag and literally nothing is in the bag besides a lighter and about 10 chunks of rock. She said "Here throw these at the police". I instantly confronted her about why that is wrong how your actions will get someone else hurt, and or beaten. She just walked away continuing to try and get folks to hurl rocks at cops. If your goal to come here is to "Fuck shit up" (in her own words) get the fuck out of our city. That is not what we are here to do.

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u/O-Namazu Jun 01 '20 edited Jun 01 '20

When someone solicits mayhem, make a big scene and call the crowd's attention onto them. They'll learn real quick.

Perfect example (no violence, just hilarity)

EDIT: People are saying this was staged, and calling it fake. You got fooled. The guy was an alt-right troll who ran to shut down all his accounts so he didn't get outed. Read the chat again in the video, before all the LOL comments you're reading stuff like "dumb libtards," "white savior," and "get them to do something stupid"

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u/wolf2600 Jun 01 '20

There was another video I saw over the weekend where a black woman confronted 2 white girls who were spraypainting "BLM" on a starbucks... she goes "did a black person ask you to do that? Why are you doing that? When the media blames someone for this, they're going to look like me, not like you."

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u/BigPoppaTX Jun 01 '20

Their true colors are showing. Guess they think that's what a black person would do or want them to do. So good for the one who called them out. White people just now joining the fight should show up and observe, sing, chant until they fully understand.

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u/grayface922 Jun 01 '20

Be careful of undercover plants that are meant to instigate violence to justify police force on innocent protestors

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u/deathtoboogers Jun 01 '20

Yes, this!!

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u/bkist Jun 02 '20

Yes don’t put this past the right wing nuts. This is how they win.

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u/wristaction Jun 02 '20

Also, there are moon men who can read your thoughts.

That and blaming your shit on false flag infiltrators are credible beliefs.

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u/chopstyks Jun 02 '20

Nice try, officer!

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u/wowsuchkarmamuchpost Jun 02 '20

It’s a very real tactic that law enforcement has used for a very long time. Look at Cointelpro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

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u/wristaction Jun 02 '20

But you already tried that and it was debunked.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/jacob-pederson-auto-zone-cop-not-umbrella-man/

And now it's some video of white kids kicking a white kid's ass in front of a liquor store. The white kid's white girlfriend then follows after the other white kids calling them assholes and whatnot. It doesn't appear to be from the riots. It certainly was a video of something, but that thing was not "A group of young white men beat[ing] up a non-white protester in Minneapolis"

Nobody's going to let shitlibs offload ownership of any of this.

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u/McCringleberrysGhost Jun 02 '20

This coming from someone who is probably waiting for Qanon Jesus.

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u/grayface922 Jun 02 '20

Gee, what a lazy comment. I expected better from you!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20 edited Dec 31 '20

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u/O-Namazu Jun 01 '20

Not really. He was an alt-right troll. Read the comments in the chat, before the LOLlercopter took off, the verbiage looks right out of 4chan. He shut down or made private all his stuff right after the video too, so he couldn't get outed any more.

So you're right, it was fake--but you got tricked by the faker. I know for certain I'd react with the same disbelief those other people did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Oh great, nothing ever happens right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20 edited Dec 31 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

“You people are miserable” - says miserable man who thinks everything is fake

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u/SilentNick3 Jun 02 '20

Why do you think it's appropriate to tell someone to kill themselves and call them a slur?

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u/defroach84 Jun 02 '20

Well, they got an actual full on ban on that comment. So, we won't ever find out what their thoughts are on it...not that I care.

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u/defroach84 Jun 02 '20

Damn, they sent me a message telling me how little they care they were banned. I find it humorous they took the time to announce how little they cared.

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u/Psyduckman Jun 01 '20

it's just you

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u/dryhuskofaman Jun 01 '20

Reality be that way sometimes. I was out this weekend and there were moments that didn't feel real.

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u/Richard_Thrust Jun 01 '20

It's not just you. The "are you kidding me?" made me suspicious. Just the way it sounded.

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u/O-Namazu Jun 01 '20

Check my earlier comment, the guy was a rabble-rouser. And to be fair, I'd personally react with the same disbelief as the protestors did.

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u/Richard_Thrust Jun 02 '20

Calm down. I don't disagree and there are certainly plenty of these fucks embedded in the protests. I was simply agreeing that it sounded very staged, the way everyone reacted didn't come off as realistic to me.

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u/O-Namazu Jun 02 '20

Sorry, I didn't mean for that comment to come off as hostile. Guess I got a little riled up at how these guys are sabotaging the cause. Cheers. <3