“Make Whites Great Again” is trending thanks to this viral photo flying around that claims now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is the same guy in the red hat on the right:
Here is Derek Chauvin, the racist cop who kept his knee on #GeorgeFloyd’s neck, cut off his air passage and murdered him, wearing a “Make Whites Great Again” hat, a clear sign that this piece of excrement should’ve been taken off the streets a long time ago.#JusticeForFloyd pic.twitter.com/KxGxHAIzlH
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) May 27, 2020
They’re not the same person, but blue-checks don’t seem to care:
A wolf in wolves clothing. The demons are among us. #Fightthecowards pic.twitter.com/UYw7zXNabQ
— Ice Cube (@icecube) May 27, 2020
Not at all:
Derek Chauvin. Lynching Murdering Evil Monster in his “work” gear and “Fun” gear. Sick soulless empty dead eyed fuck. pic.twitter.com/k67ApyEW2E
— Mario Cantone (@macantone) May 27, 2020
And Twitter isn’t doing anything about it:
"Make Whites Great Again" is trending.
Just so we're clear, Twitter isn't fact checking *what's trending on the site* that's untrue.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) May 27, 2020
Twitter users have identified the guy in the hat as Jonathan Riches, a known troll:
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Hey @TwitterSupport since you’re in the business of fact checking why don’t you have your verified accounts remove a photo that IS NOT Derek Chauvin? pic.twitter.com/VHzXIq0HfU
— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) May 27, 2020
Man in photo is someone else, a giant troll on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/OXcWiapmsZ
— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) May 27, 2020
The Huffington Post even did an entire article on him:
He lives for this chaos @NewYorker fell for it once. https://t.co/fE7mYnLFbd
— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) May 27, 2020
Now, blue-checks, please delete your viral tweets as this story is awful enough as it is:
Over 20,000 likes on this tweet and it is not even the cop in the picture on the left. https://t.co/qhF3CrnCEP
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 27, 2020
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