Revealed: how California police chased a nonexistent 'antifa bus'

[Jilly_in_VA]

On 1 June 2020, a law enforcement official in the small northern California city of Redding sent screenshots of two social media posts to her staff, asking them to investigate.

One was an Instagram story. “BE AWARE … I have heard, from a reliable source, that ANTIFA buses with close to 200 people (domestic terrorists) are planning to infiltrate Redding and possibly cause distraction and destruction,” it read.

The second, a Facebook post, warned that buses of protesters planning to “riot” had stopped in Klamath Falls in southern Oregon, “but there was no rioting or burning as they decided to move on”. The post included a grainy image of a small van with “Black Lives Matter” written on the back.

Elizabeth Barkley, then chief of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) northern division, which covers rural parts of the state just south of Oregon, asked her colleagues to look into the claims and “notify our allied agencies in town”. Ninety minutes later, another CHP official forwarded the message to officers saying, “The thought is these buses are roaming – looking for events to attend (and possibly cause problems).”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/revealed-california-police-antifa-misinformation
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The boogeyman is coming! Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[bullwinkle428]

1. More proof of Facebook's poison. On that same day (6/1/20), a bunch of local

yokels in the small city where my workplace is located in eastern Iowa, were absolutely frantically posting the same rumors of an "impending Antifa invasion"! We even got word from corporate HQ (out of state) to leave the workplace early.

This was the same day the Grand Venereal Wizard did his famous photo-op with the Bible held upside down!

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. *Eyeroll*

Antifa is the boogeyman for everything they're scared of that they can't name. Just like "godless Communism" was when I was a little girl.

[KT2000]

3. A family camping

in their school bus, actually a present for the grandma, stopped in a town in NW Washington to get supplies at a grocery store. Meanwhile the local gun shop owner was sending messages on Facebook that they were antifa. They were followed by angry men in pickup trucks with their weapons sticking out the windows. The mother, father, daughter and grandma made it to a place in the woods they considered somewhat safe. The angry men felled trees to block their access road so they could not get out. The next day some teenage boys took chainsaws and cleared the road for them to leave.

I have no doubt that one of those idiots would have killed the whole family if they had shown a reaction other than leaving. State patrol visited the gun shop and told the owner to stop his messaging as this was just a family celebrating their grandma's birthday.

[Chainfire]

4. Idiots are not afraid of a disease that has killed 600,000 Americans

But ANTIFA and BLM scares them shitless.

[LiberatedUSA]

5. They think...

…the few bits of vandalism, fires and what not throughout the entire year of 2020 (such as the police station burning down, part of Seattle being over run with the cops giving it up for a short while before retaking it, and the various burning cars, destroyed businesses and whatnot around cities in the country) were BLM instead of anarchists.

They associate BLM protests with businesses burning. Truth doesn’t matter. It is why they get angry at us; they think we are giving violence and destruction a pass depending on who does it. Again, truth be damned.

[Nevilledog]

6. AntifaBus responds...

Link to tweet

[mainer]

7. Lucky they didn't fire on a bus with a church group

That would have been the ultimate irony.

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. ESPECIALLY

a bus full of evangelical kids coming from a church camp.

[MagickMuffin]

9. Gee if only the enforcers cared about the proud boys, but we all know why they aren't concerned

about them since they are them.

[fwvinson]

10. I need to find an "antifa" membership card.

I am, of course "antifa", but if people don't believe me I need proof.