I knew we were screwed the moment I was introduced to the guy from Colorado. The supposed owner of a Denver marijuana store who claimed not to have been political prior to the 2016 election of Donald Trump, he told us he had since become an ardent “Antifa activist” and had driven halfway across the country to Georgia for the privilege of getting tear-gassed at 11 o’clock on a Monday morning. Whether he was conjured from the political fantasies of Fox News or given corporeal form by some Dr. Frankenstein at the DeKalb County Police Department, as he headed off into the parking lot that night, a seasoned organizer whispered, “He has got to be an undercover.” That was indeed the last we saw of the guy from Colorado—unless he was on the other side of the police line two days later, staring us down through the iron sight of a military surplus machine gun.

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