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2020-07-22 Fifth Column

Navy veteran beaten and pepper-sprayed by federal agents at protest in Portland

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-22 00:51|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 Calling bullshit on this. The mere fact that USA Today is putting it out there makes it stink.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-07-22 01:01|| 2020-07-22 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 There have been a bunch of reports about this incident over the past two days, Whiskey Mike, including the New York Times, so I believe it happened. I would like to know more about Mr. David, USNA (class of ‘95 or so), and how he came to be staged for YouTube as the face of Antifa in Chicago.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-22 01:19|| 2020-07-22 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry — Portland. From the New York Times article about the Portland protests:

Attending the protests for the first time over the weekend was Christopher David, 53, a former Navy civil engineering corps officer and a 1988 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Mr. David, a 6-foot-2, 280-pound former Navy varsity wrestler...

Though it seems to me the reported graduation class year doesn’t fit with a claimed age of 53...

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-22 01:30|| 2020-07-22 01:30|| Front Page Top

#4 ...nor does the US Naval Academy offer a degree in civil engineering... See here.

How very curious, especially given all the editors and fact checkers they have over at the New York Times.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-22 01:34|| 2020-07-22 01:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Though it seems to me the reported graduation class year doesn’t fit with a claimed age of 53...

21 - 22 in 1988.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 01:37|| 2020-07-22 01:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Not licensed in Oregon as a Civil Engineer. I looked it up

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-22 04:26|| 2020-07-22 04:26|| Front Page Top

#7 ...Go on over to This Ain't Hell at valorguardians.com for some interesting background on this. The crew there specializes in tracking down stolen valor cases, and they were able to track Mr. David down PDQ. Short version: he was in the Navy...but it also looks like he went in intending to provoke an incident - YMMV, of course.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-07-22 06:13|| 2020-07-22 06:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Seems like the fellow might have been hit in the head before.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-22 07:10|| 2020-07-22 07:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems like bullshit, but play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-22 08:57|| 2020-07-22 08:57|| Front Page Top

#10 "Navy veteran beaten and pepper-sprayed by federal agents at protest in Portland"

So what?
If he behaved unlawfully then what is the issue?

Posted by Thorong Grundy1520 2020-07-22 09:44|| 2020-07-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#11 What would Dron66046 do?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2020-07-22 10:58|| 2020-07-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Go on over to This Ain't Hell at valorguardians.com for some interesting background

The direct URL for Mike Kozlowski’s thingy is here.

Thank you for correcting my math, g(r)omgoru.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-22 11:51|| 2020-07-22 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 You go out looking for trouble and it's usually pretty easy to find but you just might get a little more than you bargained for.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-22 11:58|| 2020-07-22 11:58|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 Is not math, arithmetic - always make mistakes myself.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 13:24|| 2020-07-22 13:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Happy to see This Ain't Hell continues on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-22 17:44|| 2020-07-22 17:44|| Front Page Top

#16 He went to a riot to chat with the cops. Totally credible.

Posted by Grunter 2020-07-22 20:20|| 2020-07-22 20:20|| Front Page Top

#17 From the This Ain't Hell link:
The veteran said he wanted to ask the officers whether they felt their actions violated the Constitution. Video shows them tear-gassing him and smashing his hand with baton blows.

I guess he got his answer.

Also, Navy veteran...Navy veteran...Navy veteran...Navy veteran...Navy veteran...

Yeah, this was as staged as a Japanese Noh play.

Posted by SteveS 2020-07-22 21:21|| 2020-07-22 21:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Note the green lasers being used on the feds at both this and stolen valor video.

Tall guy's job was to cover the retreat, maybe get some video, video which ended up on my local new's montage - of course just the action part, not him sauntering up to fill the gap.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-22 22:56|| 2020-07-22 22:56|| Front Page Top

#19 I'd guess that ex-military with the right psychological profile are highly recruited for such positions.

Also note the shield bearers covering the retreat.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-22 23:00|| 2020-07-22 23:00|| Front Page Top

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