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.
People are protesting police killing a black civilian. Now, if Antifa were to show up, who would they attack, the protesters or the police? The police. If the alt-right showed up, who would they attack? The protesters. Well, who's getting attacked? Not the protesters. So that fits with it being Antifa rather than the alt-right...
... unless it's a false flag, or alt-right accelerationists. In that case, it could be either.
EDIT - Watch the instigating jerk flip off the protesters who dared confront him as he triggers what would become a failure cascade of protests that had been peaceful for hours.
https://reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/gtn3ps/video_of_the...
Did you watch the video?
Because he wants to break the police car obviously.
> continues instigating until the police escalate
More like until he is shooed off. I do not see the police in the video at all actually. Regardless, would that not be the best idea if you are going to cause trouble? You would not want to be arrested after all.
And yeah, I did watch the video.