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A photo purporting to show a member of Antifa assaulting a police officer at the Charlottesville rally was a fake. It was widely shared on social media and was No doubt a source of Trump’s “both sides” claim since that is where he gets his news from, despite having the world’s best intelligence at his disposal. Pretty ironic coming from he who screams fake news
The reporters who wrote this article attended the rally and said there was barely an Antifa presence at the Charlottesville rally.
An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.S. police officer with a club during a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fake.
The doctored photograph, the Associated Press and Snopes.com found, turned out to be a Getty Imageshot in 2009 during clashes between police officers and protesters in Athens, Greece. An "Antifa," or "antifacist," logo was digitally superimposed onto the jacket of a protester, who is seen attacking an officer with a blunt object.
The image was widely shared shortly after Saturday's car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, which followed a rally organized by neo-Nazis and white nationalists to protest the relocation of a Confederate statute. Some users flagged the photo on Twitter.
The fake image circulated among social media accounts that opposed anti-fascist activists and was often used to support President Donald Trump's statement that "both sides" were to blame for the Charlottesville violence.
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