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Armed Drag Brunch Defenders Shield Against Far Right in Texas [View all]
Source: The Advocate
Armed Drag Brunch Defenders Shield Against Far Right in Texas
BY CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS
AUGUST 29 2022 3:52 PM EDT
A group of people armed with AR-15 style assault rifles stood guard outside a Texas drag queen brunch location Sunday to defend people enjoying the show from armed right-wing extremists bent on disrupting it. Eventually, the two sides clashed, and a local journalist caught it on video.
A video showing some of the heated exchanges that ensued went viral on Twitter.
Link to tweet
Dallas-area freelance investigative journalist Steven Monacelli posted a thread to his Twitter timeline, where he documented the day’s events.
Monacelli also captured this terrifying image of a right-wing extremist menacing the assembled crowd by intimidating them with a baseball bat wrapped in razor wire.
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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/29/armed-drag-brunch-defenders-shield-against-far-right-texas
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