Social media has spent the past 24-hours buzzing about a viral video that shows a neo-Nazi with a swastika patch on his jacket sleeve getting knocked out in Seattle on Sunday, September 17. In the time since the recording was posted, it has been revealed that the attack was one coordinated by anti-fascists who signaled one another using hashtags on Twitter.
Word of the Nazi sympathizer traveling the city got around quickly after someone posted about him having harassed several people on a downtown-bound D line bus. "Hey so I feel like this is the only thing I can do but since you know lots of local anarchists, there's a Nazi out in downtown Seattle right now with a swastika on his arm, screaming in people's faces. I just passed him on 3rd and Unionish. So if you know anyone in the area that would like to give him a beating... He said he's armed BTW," a user with the handle @teethnclaws tweeted at around 3:56 p.m. Within minutes the Antifa community had the message passed along under the hashtag #AntiFascistAlert.
It took approximately 90 minutes from the time of the first tweet, to the moment a Black man stepped up to the man and laid him out. "Night, night," a bystander could be heard saying after the punch.
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