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>>headal+(OP)
I'm seeing false accusations of Antifa starting violence all over the place. It's the right-wing's boogieman-du-jours, and likely false-flag representation at best.

Edit: Downvoters– tell me why you're downvoting this?

Why would Antifa purposefully take actions that would deliberately cause an armed police response to otherwise-peaceful protests?

Edit 2 since I can no longer post responses: Clearly the misinformation campaign continues alive and well here on HN. Dare to defend those with less privilege and get downvoted to hell.

>>jachee+c5
The right uses 'Antifa' as a catch all term for anyone on the left doing anything they don't like. It's a meaningless label, but not enough people get that.

>>p1neco+46
There are definitely people who proudly identify as "Antifa". And a pretty good number of them are what one might generically describe as agitators (at least).

If nothing else, they seem to be the douchebags defacing war memorials.

>>downer+H7
> defacing war memorials.

What an odd thing to do. Which memorials?

>>tricer+wa
Just in the last day or two:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/world-war-ii-memorial-vandal...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/25/veterans-ange...

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2020/05/25/Wa...

https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/va-headquarters-vandal...

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Veterans-memorial-monument...

A bit older:

https://www.kptv.com/news/3-arrested-vandalism-suspect-wante...

This is just a few links--there are many more. As far as I'm concerned, this is all you need to know about Antifa. You should make up your own mind, though.