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Here’s the Person Who Trolled Erica Garner For NeoCon-man James O’Keefe
Meet “Laura Lewis.” She’s the undercover “investigator” who was asking Eric Garner’s daughter leading questions about controversial civil rights figure Al Sharpton with a hidden camera in the latest hit-job video by rightwing propagandist James O’Keefe. The story, splashed across the front page of the New York Post on Tuesday, uses highly selective interviews with Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner supporters to attempt to argue that Sharpton is “more sinner than saint.” Sharpton’s National Action Network has funded services for both causes.
The footage that includes a snippet of Erica Garner-Snipes was shot just outside the Staten Island Ferry Terminal on the evening of January 20th, where she and other activists have been gathering regularly. That particular Tuesday night was a little more emotional, as volunteers were there to rebuild the makeshift memorial for Eric Garner that had burned down the night before, on Martin Luther King Day.
Garner-Snipes and several protesters who were present during one of the filming sessions have all confirmed that the person asking the questions off-camera was Laura Lewis, which is presumably an alias. ANIMAL was first tipped-off on Lewis’s presence by New York-based activist Keegan Stephan, who recognized the woman’s voice and invasive questions from the video.
Lewis was actively using the Twitter handle @lauralewis78. (This morning, I emailed Lewis about the account and within minutes she protected the account. Luckily, I had screengrabbed a bunch of her identity-establishing tweets last night.) The account was parody-like in its adulation of the left, along with its obvious Photoshops of her with Al Sharpton and Bill Clinton. There was only a few tweets, one of them thanking Garner-Snipes the night after she secretly videotaped her:
*snip*
video, screen shots of tweets, and photo shopped pics at link.
http://animalnewyork.com/2015/heres-person-trolled-erica-garner-neocon-man-james-okeefe/
The footage that includes a snippet of Erica Garner-Snipes was shot just outside the Staten Island Ferry Terminal on the evening of January 20th, where she and other activists have been gathering regularly. That particular Tuesday night was a little more emotional, as volunteers were there to rebuild the makeshift memorial for Eric Garner that had burned down the night before, on Martin Luther King Day.
Garner-Snipes and several protesters who were present during one of the filming sessions have all confirmed that the person asking the questions off-camera was Laura Lewis, which is presumably an alias. ANIMAL was first tipped-off on Lewis’s presence by New York-based activist Keegan Stephan, who recognized the woman’s voice and invasive questions from the video.
Lewis was actively using the Twitter handle @lauralewis78. (This morning, I emailed Lewis about the account and within minutes she protected the account. Luckily, I had screengrabbed a bunch of her identity-establishing tweets last night.) The account was parody-like in its adulation of the left, along with its obvious Photoshops of her with Al Sharpton and Bill Clinton. There was only a few tweets, one of them thanking Garner-Snipes the night after she secretly videotaped her:
*snip*
video, screen shots of tweets, and photo shopped pics at link.
http://animalnewyork.com/2015/heres-person-trolled-erica-garner-neocon-man-james-okeefe/
these people make me sick.
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