Anti-Fascists Used Twitter To Find A Neo-Nazi Walking Around Seattle And Beat Him Up
On Sunday afternoon, a Twitter account called @bigotbasher posted a photo of a man apparently riding Seattle's D line while wearing a swastika armband.
The user wrote that the photo was submitted to them by a third party. @bigotbasher wrote in their tweet that the man in the armband was harassing a black man on the bus. BuzzFeed News has reached out to the person behind the account for comment.
Around the same time, the photo was posted to Reddit's Seattle subreddit.
The picture was picked up by a few anti-fascist–affiliated Twitter accounts that quickly got to work trying to identify the man.
One account called @teethnclaws posted a text saying that the man in the armband had been spotted on the corner of Seattle's Third Avenue and Union Street.
At around the same time, a report of a man in a swastika armband appeared from a Twitter account that wasn't anti-fascist–affiliated.
Then, just a few minutes later, a Facebook user named Shaughn Patrick Ffud, real name Sean Patrick Duff, shared a photo captioned, "Just watched a Nazi get knocked the **** out."
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