Thread by @EdmontonAgainst

Pat King, formerly of the duo Rollin' with Pat and Jay and then a member of the western separatist crowd, rolled into Innisfail on June 13th to check out a Black Lives Matter rally. (1/15)

A thread.

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Part 1: Pat rolls up on his motorcycle. It seems he is immediately recognized by protesters. His supporters are chanting "all lives matter" because of course they are.

He revs his engine to try to drown out the crowd... (2/)

Someone tries to de-escalate the situation. Pat makes it known that he thinks Black Lives Matter for some reason means that his life doesn't matter or that "Canadian lives" don't matter.

One of King's friends refers to the protesters as "leftist pieces of shit." (3/)

Part 2: King'a friend: "You fucking liberals don't fucking work. If you would fucking work, you'd be at fucking work."

The same guy then says that nothing needs to be explained to him because he has more experience than... (4/)

..."all you fucking non-working pieces of shit." He then continues the conspiracy theory that people are here to wreck his community and business.

King gets heated over people being near his bike. His friend and @TownofInnisfail council member Glen Carritt comes to help. (5/)

Carrie Lynn Oldford, who is recording, yells at the protesters that they are "triggered."

King and friends claim they were just trying to stop for gas and this is what happened to them.

More "leftists piece of shit."

King talking about how fast he gets arrested for... (6/)

...riding a Harley and having tattoos.

Carrie and a friend start calling people sheep.

King uses the genocide of the Indigenous to try to downplay #BlackLivesMatter. (7/)

Part 3: Pat wants to know about his rights.

After being confronted by someone, Pat tells a protester to "back his hoes up."

Carrie eventually tells Pat that something he did was "so awesome." Pat claims he had no idea what was going. (8/)

Pat asks someone if they want his name and address. He says he would give his address because he likes "thick thighs" and that "thick thighs save lives."

Someone suggests everyone try to be neighbourly. Carrie: "You can't be neighbourly with people who don't belong here." (9/)

The man who keeps calling people leftist pieces of shit identifies himself as Trevor.

As far as this video goes, this seems to be where the altercation ends. (10/)

Conclusion: the crew who showed up to counter-protest an anti-racism rally in their own town seem to have bought into the line that it could only be outside agitators who want to destroy their town who would organize such a rally. (11/)

It's also clear that they don't think their town has a problem. But I think what we see here is white fragility. The people who showed up to counter-protest felt attacked by the thought of an anti-racism rally in their town. (12/)

So attacked that they tried to make the event about them in every way: what about my life? What about my rights? You're here to attack me/my business, aren't you?

Of course, Glen Carritt who is on the town council also pushes the idea that BLM and "antifa" are... (13/)

...funded by the same people. As far as I know, Carritt doesn't come right out and say it, but this usually refers to the anti-Semitic conspiracy that George Soros is funding everything. (14/)

Shout out to the organizers who pulled off the event despite the animosity. (15/)