Washington Post accused of falsely claiming no Antifa violence arrests in 'fact check'

PJ Media:

After the protests over the police killing of George Floyd devolved into looting, vandalism, and arson across America that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments, President Donald Trump condemned antifa instigators, insisting they played a key role in the riots. Yet on Monday, The Washington Post fact-checker claimed that Trump’s statements about antifa were lies. The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo definitively shot down that ludicrous claim in one tweet.

The fact-checker gave Trump “Four Pinocchios” for his antifa claims, arguing that “there has not yet been a single confirmed case in which someone who self-identifies as antifa led violent acts at any of the protests across the country.”

Yet Ngo tweeted a prosecutorial record involving Amelia Joan Shamrowicz, who allegedly committed arson, criminal mischief (destroying or damaging $1,000 or more in property), and rioting. When police interviewed Shamrowicz’s roommates, they “reported that SHAMROWICZ stated they started the fire using a Molotov cocktail, and she is part of Antifa. SHAMROWICZ was reported to be extremely excited about being labeled a terrorist and was very animated about her hopes that police officers would be killed and injured by the riots. She also stated that she would be going out on another mission and the goal would be to set another fire.”

Multnomah County, Ore., Deputy District Attorney Brad Kalbaugh filed the report on June 1, 2020, shortly after the first round of nationwide rioting following George Floyd’s death.

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Ngo’s tweet does not prove that antifa orchestrated the riots across America, but it does definitively disprove the Post‘s “fact-checking” statement that no one who self-identifies as antifa was involved.

Antifa leader Luis Marquez has made his appearances at Seattle’s 
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) — or as PJ Media’s Victoria Taft calls it, Antifastan.

Andy Ngo reported that police arrested five people outside Portland’s Justice Center in what he termed “antifa riots” on June 20-21.

Ngo, who himself suffered violence at the hands of antifa mobs in Portland, is something of an expert on the subject. He spent a week in Antifastan and described the frequent use of many antifa tactics.

Not only did the Post fact-checker falsely claim that no one who identifies with antifa has been arrested in the riots, it also covered for antifa, suggesting that the real instigators were white nationalists.

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Antifa has become the militant wing of the Democrat party and that may be why they are so defensive about their activities.  They are the modern equivalent of the KKK.  Instead of wearing ghostly white, they wear black with face coverings to hide their identity.

There has also been an attempt to accuse white nationalists of the violence which is illogical in the extreme.  Why would white nationalists be upset about the death of a black man in police custody?  It defies logic, but Minnesota politicians were some of the first to make the bogus claims, although they have since backed off the allegations.  I think the left is just looking for excuses to switch the blame for the violence and destruction from their people including Black Lives Matter.