Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax

7/5/20
 
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from The Washington Post,
7/4/20:

For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

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Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media