Well, this is a weird twist. First let me bring you up to speed on the backstory. Back in 2019, 23-year-old Sean Kealiher was having drinks with a couple friends at an anarchist bar called Cider Riot. Kealiher was a well known locally as an Antifa activist.
After leaving the bar, Kealiher got into some kind of confrontation. A car driven by a then-unknown person drove into him on the sidewalk and people believed to have been with Kealiher fired shots at the car. Kealiher himself was taken to the hospital by friends but he succumed to his injuries. The other parties involved fled the scene, leaving the SUV involved in the attack behind.
Immediately there were people suggesting that Kealiher was a victim of right-wing violence. And people connected to Antifa were telling like-minded folks not to cooperate with the police investigation. They held their own memorial service of sorts:
