By Timon Johnson Claims have spread online this week that a white nationalist group’s demonstration at a First Nation in British Columbia, which has been denounced by authorities as “disgusting” and “cowardly,” was in fact a false flag operation. The claims say the action was the work of government agents with purported goals ranging from stifling free speech to influencing the upcoming provincial election. But a number of elements, including statements by prominent members of the organization, point to the action being carried out by white nationalists. THE CLAIM On Sunday, a group of masked individuals dropped a banner from an overpass in Kamloops, B.C., with a message mocking reports of unmarked graves at the nearby site of the former residential school on Tkemlups te Secwepemc First Nation. As photos…
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