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Collected Item: “Old Man Pushed During Protest. Is He an Antifa Agent?!”

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Old Man Pushed During Protest. Is He an Antifa Agent?!

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Video, Meme, cartoon

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

During the Buffalo Black Lives Matter protests, cops pushed an old man down and just left him there despite his head injuries. Trump tweeted this: “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.”
Of course memes cropped up instructing us how to know if our grandparents were actually ANTIFA agents

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Martin Gugino, Trump, Antifa, humor, police, protest, grandparents, Buffalo

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKb8lAm01E

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Various. One was abc7news

Give this story a date.

2020-06-05
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