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It really, really feels like a false flag, either completely or partially staged. The single round in a... stripper clip? with the phrase "anti ice" hastily written on ONE bullet is bad enough, but the tweet by Patel really sealed it, both in terms of posting evidence in a murder case on social media, and the fact that he said "empty casings were engraved" as he posted the picture of non-empty bullet casings with sharpie markings. It seems like they tried to do something hasty and rapid here and made a lot of mistakes.
Worth noting there is precedent for this; this is exactly how right-wing extremists operate; notable examples in the past proven to be such false flags include:
Boogaloo boys in Oakland, CA during 2020 George Floyd protests, trying to frame nearby peaceful protesters as they shot and murdered an officer at a courthouse.
Boogaloo tried to do the same stunt in Minneapolis, too.
Umbrella Man in Minneapolis caught smashing windows with a hammer. Turned out to be a right-wing extremist.
White Supremacist group caught posing as "Antifa"
I'm really surprised ol' wide-eyes didn't have his boys write "Antifa 4Ever!" on the shell. The weird rush-job of the whole thing really lends me to believe whatever went down wasn't exactly how they had planned.
I guess we wait and see what obvious bs they do next like throw a wig on the shooter's body and call him "trans."