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25 Aug 2019
The individuals arrested at the 2009 G20 meeting were real protesters, not actors.

And the problem is that they absolutely were not. The specific arrest Alex is talking about was the subject of a video that went 2009 viral. It was a video of a car pulling up on protesters, men in camo coming out and grabbing a guy and tossing them into their car. Immediately, the internet went wild with theories that the arrest was fake because the camo outfits the men were wearing weren't right. They were like a different form of camo than the National Guard was wearing. No, it was an improv everywhere. Sure. Or they had the wrong shoes on, was another complaint that was made. Yeah, toss it in there. I don't believe that Alex reached out to anyone because, like I said, he never reaches out to anyone for comment. That's just not part of the Infowars journalism process. Why would you? I can count on one hand the number of times I believe they may have sent someone an email to check on a story. What Alex is probably referring to is the boilerplate response that the G20 Joint Information Center sent to journalists inquiring about the arrest, which I found published verbatim on both MediaIte and RawStory. Quote: The individuals involved in the 92409 arrest, which has appeared online, are law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team. It's not unusual for tactical team members to wear camouflage and fatigues. The type of fatigues the officers wear designates their unit affiliation. This is pretty close to what Alex is saying the Army told him, so I'm going to assume he probably just read this response and decided to pretend he reached out to them himself, knowing that that's the response he would get if he did reach out, so it's a safe. But he also says they reach out to him, making him so much more powerful. Sure. These weren't military members, despite their camo. They were alleged, and they alleged that they had observed the individual they arrested vandalizing a business and decided to intervene the way they did due to the, quote, hostile nature of the crowd. I think that's all kind of bullshit. And the arrest absolutely I would describe as overkill in the methods that they're using. But Alex lying about it doesn't help the actual problem get solved. No. In much the same way, him refusing to file internal complaints when he is the victim of police overreach doesn't help the problem get solved. Right. Because he wants terroristic policing just not to profit off of him. Right. The larger issue here for our purposes, though, is that this was a real arrest. And Alex has zero evidence to support his claim that it was an actor who was arrested as part of a psyop. That's a completely unfounded belief.