Thread by @ShermanMarching

1. I'm happier than a pig in shit to introduce you to the first of Jason Kessler's security detail from UniteTheRight to be identified:

Meet former Identity Dixie member Mitchell Shane Rivers aka Wade Garrett aka Wade Garrote aka Wade Ferret aka Hamish Bone of Burlington, NC

2. Shane Rivers originally came to my attention via the first SPLC article on Identity Dixie.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…

3. Like Brandal T. Payne, Shane Rivers got a digital award, because that's what Identity LARPy give for excellence..

4. Shane Rivers was a part of Jason Kessler's 6 man security detail.

The first time he's seen at UTR was on A11 before the Nazi-esque torchlight march. You can pick him out at multiple places in the @UR_Ninja video:

https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/896214036873973760?s=20

5. Here is a very detailed still photograph of Shane Rivers from that evening.

6. His photos with @TheMadDimension were also posted on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/896186560462409729?s=20

7. Although Jason Kessler was in Identity Dixie with Shane Rivers and surely knew him as Wade, either he called him Wayne in his Sines v Kessler deposition or the stenographer misheard him. I'm sure Jason wouldn't have been deceptive. 🤔

8. This wasn't Shane's first trip to Charlottesville for a white supremacist rally. He went to the tiny Dick Spencer rally there in May 2017 with 4 other Identity Dixie members. Not much photographic or video evidence servived digital purges, but I take his word for it.

9. Shane Rivers recites the 14 words in the UTR Discord chats leaked by @UR_Ninja.

10. As a matter of fact Mitchell Shane Rivers was the very first poster in the #carolinas part of the UTR chat.

11. Shane Rivers was the most vocal Identity Dixie member on the UTR Discord server.

12. Shane Rivers gets that the whole UniteTheRight event is an opportunity to convert others to hate. He's not some dumb rube just going along with things.

13. Mitchell Shane Rivers also know about all the vetting going on with the TRS "pool parties" in North Carolina.

14. He wasn't just relaying information about what Identity Dixie was doing for UTR, he was also relaying best practices to Identity Dixie from what other racists were doing.

15. Shane Rivers was extremely upset about Tim Manning aka SCNazi getting their accommodations canceled. Again, he was the vocal Identity Dixie member.

16. Mitchell Shane Rivers of Burlington, NC is a mega-bigot.

17. Shane defended Chris Cantwell.

18. Shane Rivers donated to Alex McNabb when he was doxxed. Think Alex will return the favor, Shane?

19. Late night after UniteTheRight Shane Rivers weighs in and gives the truth about alt right guys: They're cowards when it comes to women.

20. Shane Rivers knows because he knows young men in the alt right. Here he is with impressionable young racists during a North Carolina event. If I recall, this is in Graham County.

21. So, how did Shane Rivers get caught? It was a multiple year search by multiple people.

We don't forget those who attended UTR and we will fucking find you. Bet on it.

22. In 2018 "Wade Ferret" posted this photo in a sub-chat. Otherwise his opsec was pretty good.

23. Three years later, that same make, model, and color truck was seen with the same front tag at Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church in Greensboro, NC.

24. Same truck.

25. On the Facebook page for the church was a newly baptized member of the church, Mitchell Shane Rivers.

26. A photo on his IG from 2015 matches with the still photo from A11, with the increased grey hair.

27. Being a racist ages you.

- 2012
- 2015
- 2017
- 2021

28. It's also not conducive to building relationships. After a hiatus he returned to Identity Dixie, but was later removed. Mitchell Shane Rivers is a bigot, a racist, and now know to the world.

Welcome to the sunlight sweetie!

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