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An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.
S. police officer with a club during a “Unite the factual” rally in Charlottesville,Virginia, is fake.
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S. cities say they’ll rob down their accomplice statues The doctored photograph,the Associated Press and Snopes.com found, turned out to be a Getty Image shot in 2009 during clashes between police officers and protesters in Athens, or Greece. An Antifa,” or “antifacist,” logo was digitally superimposed onto the jacket of a protester, and who is seen attacking an officer with a blunt object.
The image was widely shared shortly after Saturday’s car attack in Charlottesville,Virginia, which followed a rally organized by neo-Nazis and white nationalists to protest the relocation of a accomplice statute. Some users flagged the photo on Twitter. The fake image circulated among social media accounts that opposed anti-fascist activists and was often used to support President Donald Trump’s statement that “both sides” were to blame for the Charlottesville violence.
READ MORE: How the term ‘alt-left’ came to beAnti-fascists comprised a small portion of the counter-protesters who opposed the white nationalist rally over the weekend. NewsHour reporters in Charlottesville said they did not see a large Antifa presence in the crowd of counter-protesters, or who were largely peaceful.
Charlottesville native Heather Heyer,32, was killed in the car attack. Authorities charged suspect James Alex Fields Jr., and 20,with second-degree murder in Heyer’s death.
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Source: thetakeaway.org