Posted on 07/09/2022 3:54:04 AM PDT by Libloather
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"Bobby Crimo aka 'Awake The Rapper' the Highland Park shooter was an Antifa Far Left extremist," says a July 4, 2022 tweet with hundreds of likes and shares.
The post includes two photos. One appears to depict 21-year-old Robert Crimo wearing a hat sporting the letter "A," while the other purportedly shows his Instagram profile featuring an anti-fascist logo.
Screenshot of a tweet taken July 6, 2022 "Antifa" is short for anti-fascist, a term that describes a broad, loosely affiliated coalition of left-wing activists. AFP has previously reported on how the movement has been falsely blamed for everything from fires on the West Coast to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
Other posts sharing the purported screenshot of Crimo's Instagram profile have circulated on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. The Gateway Pundit, a conservative website that has previously published misinformation, also shared the image.
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This screenshot taken July 6, 2022 shows Robert Crimo's now-deleted website. Some social media posts sharing the image of Crimo's supposed Instagram profile indicate the page was newly created. The account, whose handle did not resemble any of Crimo's other social media profiles, appears to have had few followers and was recently updated before being removed.
The symbol used on Crimo's social media does not appear to be associated with any antifa imagery. AFP did not find any exact matches, but some reports said it resembles a symbol used by some far-right groups.
AFP found no other evidence that the Instagram account being shared belonged to Crimo. AFP reached out to Instagram for additional comment.
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Just curious, are you Cogitator?
No, seriously, I don’t know Cogitator. Are you using them in a positive or negative sense?
was an Antifa Far Left extremist,”
I guess I didn’t send my “We are Locutus” post. Insert that before my last reply.
It’s funny.
His entire history is that of a troll.
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=all-hats&query=a&ref=search_box
Antifa gear
A plain A hat
Stop quibbling.
He is a leftist totalitarian socialist wh kills
The Gift that
Keeps on Giving!
Adidas hat:
Shame that You forgot
‘Arizona!’
;)
Cogitator was a former Freeper, he posted in Global Warming threads, and was a skeptic of our skepticism, to say the least. He would argue, factually and in a polite manner, that Global Warming was real. I actually appreciated his posts. But I get the same sort of vibe from Observerator.
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