Is it true that the “Shaman” participating in the assault on the Capitol went to the Black Lives Matter campaign?

Users of social networks suspected in the duplication of the participant in the assault of the Capitol. Allegedly, a man in a fur cap with horns in the summer participated in promotions against the police violence that the Democrats supported. We checked whether he really did it.

One of the most remembered demonstrators who broke into the US Parliament on January 6, 2021 was a half -naked man with a face painted in the colors of the American flag. A bright image was completed by a fur hat with horns. So far some users of social networks discussed The similarity of events with one of the episodes of the animated series “Simpsons”, others decided to figure out what a person chose such an extravagant outfit to participate in the political action. By one From versions, six months before the rally of Donald Trump's supporters, who poured into the assault on the Capitol, the demonstrator participated in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) action - a movement that is supported Joe Biden. Users of Russian blog platforms do not lag behind their overseas colleagues and managed accuse Activist, who was nicknamed the “shaman” and “viking” in the media, in duplicity and corruption.

A man in a memorable headdress who participated in the riots on January 6, the name is Jacob Anthony Angeli Chengley, although he became known under the abbreviated name Jake Angeli. He lives in Arizona, protrudes against coronaviral restrictions, as well as calls himself “practicing shaman” and “digital soldier” of the theory of Qanon. According to this conspiracyological Concept, there is a sect of pedophile worshiping Satan, which control the global network for the transportation and sexual operation of children. It is argued that high -ranking democrats (for example, the Clinton family) are involved in the activities of the sect, and Donald Trump was preparing to expose the organization. January 9 Angeli They took it Directly on charges of illegal penetration and hooliganism on the territory of the Capitol.

Although Angeli supported the 45th President of the United States throughout 2020, some Americans suspected a supporter of the Democrats in him. In the USA, popular theorythat left -wing activists are deliberately introduced into the ranks of Trump's supporters in order to discredit republicans with their appearance or eccentric behavior. Apparently, such suspicions appeared among readers Blogger Kari Keelemen, who actively supports Trump in his posts.

January 6, 2021 Keelemen Published Twitter has two photos with a signature that can be translated as “BLM rally in Arizona in June, Capitol in the capital in January”. Both photos attached to the tweet of Keelemen are genuine and portray an Angel, but cut out of original pictures. In the photograph on the right of him and several other activists, during the riots in the Capitol, he captured the sun's forehead. Soon after the events in Washington, the picture Published Getty images.

The photo on the left also depicts Angeli, but was taken six months earlier in Arizona, during the promotion in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. And if in the case of the first picture the cut -off interiors and other protesters did not change anything, the installation of images from Arizona changes much more. The original photo shows that Angeli carries in his hands a poster with an inscription in support of the Qanon movement. The author of the picture Brett Lewis explainedthat the activist in a fur cap visited this and other BLM marches for the sake of provocation.

Thus, Angeli really was in January 2021 in the Capitol, and in June 2020 in Arizona at the BLM campaign. At the same time, in the second case, the activist did not participate in protests, but promoted his own, opposite views. Keelemen, who published two cut photos together, lowered this detail in her tweet - precisely in her distorted version of Angel's political activity. Learned Many Russian Internet users.

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What do our verdicts mean?

Read on the topic:

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jake-angeli-viking-capitol-blm/
2. https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html
3. https://www.bbc.com/news/53498434
4. https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/jake-angeli-horned-Protester-stormed-capitol-b84847.html
5. https://tjournal.ru/internet/319547-lico-shturma-kapitoliya-merikanec-v-kostyuma-khto-takoy-i-sist-geroem-memov