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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by jascii on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:42PM (#23396693)
"Agent Provocateurs" are an old and well documented technique with examples varying from history through the civil rights era to the current day protests.
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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by bigiain on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:00AM (#23399534)
https://eurweb.com/2020/05/29/jacob-pederson-minneapolis-pol...

Hard to evaluate the accuracy of that story.

But it's also hard to dismiss it out of hand, given known true police behaviour. A very common view from the public is that cops are totally capable of that kind of behaviour. And whether the story about the cop setting the first fire is true our not, the believability of the story is as much a problem as the possible truth of the story.

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