On the one hand, it’s the New York Post; on the other hand, it sounds like exactly the sort of kack-handed stunt for which James O’Keefe III is notorious…
A controversial conservative activist is being accused of trying to incite anti-police protesters by saying, “I wish I could kill some of these cops,” to provoke them into making outrageous statements.
A former top staffer with Project Veritas, Richard Valdes, said the incident occurred in January, when an undercover operative assigned to infiltrate the protest groups was given a script that included the startling comment.
Valdes said he was fired by the group’s founder, James O’Keefe, for not following through on the bizarre assignment.
Valdes said Veritas assigned a Muslim undercover agent pretending to be anti-cop to attend protest meetings and utter the following statement: “Sometimes, I wish I could just kill some of these cops. Don’t you just wish we could have one of the cops right here in the middle of our group?”…
Valdes claims O’Keefe, known for hidden-camera tactics against liberal groups, fired him “because he was unhappy with me for being unwilling to strong-arm the guy to do his dirty work.”…
“Project Veritas would never do anything that we believe would incite violence against police officers. Anyone suggesting otherwise is clearly unfamiliar with our body of work,” Veritas spokesman Dan Pollack said.
Anyone familiar with Project Veritas’ “body of work” would suspect them of any variety of ratfvckery that didn’t actually involve putting themselves in harm’s way, and trying to gin up violence with badly-written scripts for a sockpuppet at two removes would qualify. If it turns out Jimmy and his bhoyos didn’t take the hint back in January, I suppose we may yet be treated to the edifying spectacle of one or another Ferguson-related authority figure pursuing the scrimy bastid in connection with last week’s shooting.
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