Michigan man in now-famous Capitol protest photo: 'I didn't scream in anybody's face'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As photographs of gun-carrying protesters in Michigan's Capitol building made the rounds nationally, one has emerged as a defining image of last week's demonstration over the governor's orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.

An unmasked man, mid-scream, yelling within inches of two police officers.

There have been memes and chatter on social media about the screaming protester, even misidentifications of him as a Los Angeles activist.

But he isn't from California. He is from New Hudson, Michigan. And his name is Brian Cash.

"Yes, that's me," the 52-year-old flooring installer told the Free Press on Monday when asked to confirm whether he is the man in the photo, taken by Jeff Kowalsky, a photographer working for Agence France-Presse (AFP).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/michigan-man-in-now-famous-capitol-protest-photo-i-didnt-scream-in-anybodys-face/ar-BB13DKEB?li=BBnb7Kz

Yes and you also have a full beautiful head of hair. Shit I have ten years on you and I don't look as bad.

[2naSalit]

1. Huh...

Looks like a flaming shitneck to me.

[Squinch]

2. Creepy imbecile.

[rockfordfile]

3. Yeah he's real pos and now the world knows

[calguy]

4. Yes, I believe you

and I also believe trump didn't tell people to inject bleach into their bodies.

[Turbineguy]

5. OK

Let's say he's exhaling loudly.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

6. Wingnuts do not understand photo and video.

They never have. Like der Dumpster, they thing that evidence magically disappears once they claim it never happened. Stoopid and stoopider.

[msongs]

7. pic shows him screaming into a gap between 2 cops - not quite in your face so he

is technically correct in his denial

[stopdiggin]

10. thanks.

because when someone else doesn't, I somehow feel it's necessary.
(and the picture really isn't that hard to decipher.)

And I'm sure both of us will go on to say -- still, no mask, no distancing, no manners and no brains .. he's a real cutie! By any standard.
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[LastDemocratInSC]

14. I suspect that there's a person in the doorway just out of view.

[iemitsu]

8. I thought he was a barking walrus.

[mnmoderatedem]

9. my thought when looking at that photo.

apparently blue lives don't matter any more.

[The Magistrate]

11. And It Comes To Life, Sir...

[Progressive Jones]

12. These people were poorly raised. They never learned how to behave in public. nt

[roamer65]

13. Michiganders...start boycotting his flooring company.

[BSdetect]

17. Or make hundreds of appointments for a quote and reject when he appears or cancel last minute

[roamer65]

20. Good idea.

[LanternWaste]

15. More weird stuff from the story

Other details about Cash... he believes the virus was intentionally released by the Chinese government, and he said he had never voted before the 2016 election ("Because f*ck the government, you know?" ) .

Cash, who expressed dislike for both the Dmocratic and Republican parties, said he voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary, and then Donald Trump in the general election.

[Blue_true]

19. It seems a lot of Sanders' supporters, even this year are like him.

I read where one said that he was conservative on social issues, but agreed with Sander's economic prescriptions. I would venture a guess that people like that classify women's' rights to fair employment and decisions about their bodies, LGBTQ rights to safety and economic rights, rights for POC, ect to be the "social" issues that they don't want to see being addressed.

[llmart]

16. Splitting hairs

No, he wasn't directly in his face, but a foot to his left. So that makes it OK?

These assholes, once they're called out by name, try to rationalize their assholery.

I hope most people don't judge all of us Michiganders poorly because of these covidiots. Some of us are really nice, caring people.

[irisblue]

18. Turns out Cash has a Twitter account as well, and he is lovely there too

Link to tweet

Dude has severe life issues

[keithbvadu2]

21. Some folks get more fame than they want.

[ornotna]

22. I knew a floor installer from Michigan

He was a right wing douche too.

[tblue37]

23. He is frozen in history now, like this shouting white girl: