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What have you witnessed or seen that would sound like a conspiracy theory if someone else told you? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by operetingushisutemu@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mobius_slip@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I was involved in the BLM protests of 2021. The cops were legitimately pulling people off the street into unmarked, black vans. Some of the people that were grabbed were not even involved in the protests, they were just outside past the citywide curfew.

I had heard about this happening in Oregon and Washington through the ever reliable internet, but I didn't actually believe it until I saw it happen in my moderately sized Midwestern city.