TPM has been reviewing the “OperationFlagDrop” channel since late last month. Several of the accounts that participated in the group appear to have been deleted and conversations there indicate that some individual messages were removed. We endeavored to reproduce all of the posts quoted in this story as close to their original format as possible, which includes some spelling and grammatical errors.
Related this recently:
Man came over to pick up a thing I put in Nextdoor.com. Said, “Hey I seen you on there, talking about 01/06. My brother’s a cop.”
He wasn’t in my grill by any stretch, but his struck me as a bit adversarial. Impossible to relate in text, and it’s been a couple of years.
“And those vile scum beat policemen with an American flag. 2 committed suicide directly after. FUCK those people.” (Again, can’t get it across in text.)
You could see the gears turning, thinking, “Well… yeah… fuck them!”
Anyway, the guy honestly gave it a thought, and I think he found a new take on the whole thing.
We parted very amiably, shook hands, all that. One of the rare times I think I gave someone a truly new perspective and the internalized it.