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Apr 13, 2022, 6 tweets

#Antifa & others are using Twitter to call for violence in Grand Rapids, Mich. over the police shooting death of #PatrickLyoya. Bodycam footage shows Lyoya violently resisting arrest & grabbing the officer's taser before being shot dead.

People are preparing for mass violence in Grand Rapids, Mich. over the police-involved shooting death of #PatrickLyoya, a black man who tried to escape on foot, resisted arrest & then grabbed the officer's taser. #BLM

Violent protesters have gathered outside @GrandRapidsPD. The police station is fenced off & businesses boarded up. Leftist extremists urging revenge over police-involved death of #PatrickLyoya, a black man who tried to take a cop’s taser & was shot dead.

"No more peace"

An antifa account is calling for revenge and violence in reaction to the police-involved shooting death of #PatrickLyoya, a black man who wrestled with a @GrandRapidsPD cop & tried to take his taser.

The far-left uses Twitter to organize violence & to fundraise in anticipation of criminality & arrests. This account is helping to fundraise for Michigan Solidarity Bail Fund. The fund calls the deadly 2020 riots the "George Floyd Rebellion" on its site.

A fence separated angry protesters and police officers at the @GrandRapidsPD. Earlier, some of them had thrown projectiles though the behavior quickly ceased. Online, many continue to urge violence and revenge. #PatrickLyoya

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