Yeah, my money is on one or a few people in a Discord somewhere who decided they were going to smash some windows and post some totally not questionable screenshots implicating the cops to KICK OFF THE RACE WAR or whatever post-Bircher bullshit they're on about.

Whoever it is, it's definitely not one of the protestors.

And on the flip side, everyone claiming this "started the riots" are ignoring the fact that people had already been looting the Target for a while when this happened.

The umbrella is so stupid that it almost seems like it HAS to be someone wearing an "undercover agent" costume but yeah, I doubt we'll ever know.

Did he use to dress like that around the house? If not I’d like to know how anyone can be IDd from this video.

Or you getting more Facebook verified breaking news?

Substantiated only by a collage of maybe-real screencaps posted anonymously by someone claiming to be a fellow protester.

Basically there are no reliable narratives about this.

Gee, you don't say.

Actually it looks like this isn't true. I'm going back to my original assumption that he's a white supremacist accelerationist.

Last I heard the evidence it WASN'T him is "other cops said it wasn't him"

And the evidence it WAS him is "anonymous Internet user claims his ex fiance recognized his mask, gloves and posture"

So like I was saying, no reliable narratives.

supposedly to hide from aerial surveillance

I thought it was because he knew tear gas was coming, because he's a cop.

probably both