“After a precinct captain approved a “misinformation effort,” officers fabricated sightings of Proud Boys with guns, a brewing fight with protesters, and a police response.“
“Seattle police staged sightings of Proud Boys in conversations on public police radio frequencies during last year’s protests over George Floyd’s murder, just after protesters had taken control of a police precinct and the police had left the “autonomous zone,” according to a scathing report released Wednesday by Seattle’s Office of Police Accountability (OPA).”
When the Seattle riots were going on, I had sympathy for the police who had to deal with them and the lack of support from city officials. Now I’m thinking just fuck ’em.