They were sitting down in a room in which the speaker gave a nazi salute. They did not leave when it became apparent that he would not be ejected.

He knows his audience, that’s for certain.

And they make no difference. People see what they already want to see, even in the face of video evidence. Have you not heard “Yeah, but what happened before the cameras were rolling” or “he was clearly reaching for the cop’s gun/his waistband” or “just comply and this won’t happen!”? Because if you haven’t, you should ask yourself whose side you’ve been taking in discussions regarding police misconduct.

I once again want you to recognise the difference between “police mows down a crowd of unarmed protesters” and “police crushed armed insurrection in an intense shootout”, but this time I want you to do it for real, not just knee-jerking canned response.

When the police call the latter the former, you will believe them.

There’s a difference in reality, yes. But in most of the US, whatever the pigs say is believed immediately and without question.

It just takes one provocateur to make that difference. The number of actual firearms at the protest doesn’t matter as long as there’s one, which the provocateur can bring.

One agent in a crowd of unarmed people will not cause that effect.

It will if police are present and are looking for an excuse to violently quash protest.

The only notes they pay any attention to are Federal Reserve Notes.

If I had a nickel for every time a car company owned by a nazi sympathizer who wants to found his own exploitive company town made an infamously fiery car that you can hear rusting, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

All they need is one agent provocateur for that, then.