Ok, so they’re a bunch of rightwing assholes. But check out what the cops do:
A man had entered the cemetery wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt. The man, Trent Somes, later told The Post he was visiting the grave of an ancestor, not protesting. A seminarian and associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Hanover, Pa., Somes said a crowd of about 50 people surrounded him and aggressively questioned him about his shirt.
“I didn’t do anything to them,” he said.
Police arrived and encouraged Somes to leave.
“For his own safety, federal law enforcement made the decision to remove him, and he was escorted out of the cemetery,” Jason Martz, acting public affairs officer for Gettysburg National Military Park, later said.
I understand that they were trying to prevent these disgusting jackasses from physically assaulting this man. But the message the idiots got was that he brought it on himself by deigning to wear a t-shirt that said something they don’t like.
In the cemetery on the anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg where his ancestor is buried.
The whole story of this ridiculous confrontation is interesting as well. Apparently, there’s a fake Antifa persona online which got the wingnuts all excited by saying Antifa was gathering at Gettysburg to deface the place on the 4th of July. So these morons, including armed militia, converged on the place to “confront” them and the only one who showed up was a lone pastor with a BLM t-shirt who didn’t know anything about it.
According to the Post, this “persona” has a long trail and comes from somewhere in the US. In other words it doesn’t appear to be a Russian bot. For all we know it’s an undercover government agent on Bill Barr’s”Antifa” crusade who ended up getting the idiot right wingers to come out instead of the radical left wingers.
Whatever happened, these yahoos are pathetic. And from the looks of them they’ve got a boatload of co-morbidities so I just hope for their sakes that they didn’t spend a lot of time in close quarters with an asymptomatic carrier. It would be a shame if any of these obese, older, infirm, morons wound up in the hospital.