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Internet Vigilantes Falsely Link Ex-Officer to Teens’ Attack

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Internet Vigilantes Falsely Link Ex-Officer to Teens’ Attack
Anthony Brennan III, 60, of Kensington, Maryland, poses after he was charged with three counts of second-degree assault by the Maryland-National Capital Park Police in Silver Spring, Md., on June 5, 2020. Maryland-National Capital Park Police/Handout via Reuters
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6/10/2020|Updated: 6/10/2020

SILVER SPRING, Md.—John Damskey’s nightmare began with his wife getting emails from strangers telling her she should be ashamed of her husband, a retired police officer. Their phones wouldn’t stop ringing with calls from unfamiliar numbers. Some even called his 74-year-old mother.

Baffled by the barrage of hate on June 4, Damskey plugged his name into the internet and made a horrifying discovery: Mobs of Twitter users were falsely accusing him of being the bicyclist on a Maryland trail who accosted three young adults posting flyers protesting the death of George Floyd.

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