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PLEASE remember the lessons of Ferguson six years ago:
*misinformation about protestors abounds, created intentionally and malevolently or otherwise.
*protesters are not a monolith of motives or tactics
*some just draft in wake of protests for various reasons
*Don’t pass along claims/tweets without stopping to check their provenance
*really bad disinformation actors rush into moments like this
* Trump flamed fears over BLM protests to rile up his base in 2016, and even if he sends in FBI to investigate, he’ll almost certainly do it again.
*then as now the daytime protests are both bigger and more peaceful.
*In Ferguson and subsequent protests, there were accounts that pretended to be #BLM activists that if you traced back through their history, clearly were not. And those accounts would push disinfo and fear. We're all savvier about this kind of thing now, but beware.
* Don't conflate actions of people who live in the community from bad actors who come to wreak havoc. Sometimes those bad actors have political/anarchic motives. Some just want to fuck shit up and fight.

Good actors not of community should also not be conflated with bad ones.
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