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Concrete #Milkshake story is symbolic of how police copaganda fuels right wing disinformation & violence, while demonizing the left. Pdx Police tweeted that protesters were throwing concrete milkshakes. Retweeted 14k times and based on anon. email & was likely from right winger
Email to police was sent from new email by someone acting like an antifascist activist. 1.That would never happen 2.Sugar interrupts the setting process of concrete 3.Noone got sick from drinking concrete 4. No physical evidence found supporting claim 2/
This disinformation by Portland Police about cement milkshakes was propagated across the country by right wing media and most far right propagandists like @JackPosobiec @Timcast @FoxNews @AnnCoulter, @stillgray, @tedcruz, Proud Boys and even many liberal media outlets 3/
Andy Ngo with help of his far right attorney @pnjaban spread these lies. Antisemite Michelle Malkin, known as white Nationalist's "Groyper mom" helped raise $200k in response to his assault. Memes spread about chemical burns @ protest using fake pictures stolen from @TeenVogue 4/
Patriot Prayer affiliates even threw unknown white powder on leftists and then claimed they were hit with cement milkshakes 5/ https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1146866532602880001?s=19
Right winger mistakes me as a right winger and tries showing me the white powder they intend to throw 6/ https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1145268162251780096?s=09
This "concrete milkshake" disinformation spread so far that attorneys demanded the Portland Police retract statement and say they had no evidence. Police refused and doubled down 7/ https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2019/07/20/city-declines-to-retract-misleading-tweet-but-urges-people-receiving-threats-related-to-june-29-protest-to-contact-police/
We saw similar copaganda on 8/4/18 when police claimed they saw a leftist with a gun to justify beating & shooting the whole crowd including a flash bang going through a helmet and said nothing about right wingers on a roof top with guns...or 8/ https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/10/24/police-say-they-saw-an-antifascist-protester-openly-carrying-a-handgun-on-aug-4-dispatch-records-show/
This summer when they falsely claimed protesters locked people in a precinct and tried to catch it on fire, when most doors were free and protesters actually put out a dumpster fire that caught a board on window on fire....or 9/
When they imply gun violence is going up because the gun violence reduction team was dissolved. Yet gun violence was going up months before GVRT dissolution...or 10/ https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1321738112582602752?s=19
Portland Police actually stated that weapons with confederate flags that were confiscated at Aug 4th 2018 rally, could have been planted by left wing protesters. Work of officer Burley https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1211907006098857985?s=19
You can't forget the fake #antifawildfires story coming from Clackamas county sherrifs that almost got journalists killed
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1304147436164665344?s=19
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/11/antifa-wildfires-oregon-rumors-fact-check-debunked/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1305683640068702209?s=19
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1304147436164665344?s=19
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/11/antifa-wildfires-oregon-rumors-fact-check-debunked/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1305683640068702209?s=19
