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You are describing the loop of plastic audio wire poking out of his shirt as a keyring there. You can look up higher res copies of this image. Duckduckgo had two different, higher-resolutiot copies right at the top of the page of this guy. It's supposed to be hard to spot them, otherwise they wouldn't exactly be doing a good job, yeah? Also, this picture specifically is being shown because the guy was confirmed to be an undercover cop. It was during the George Floyd protests.

You must not have seen very many tins of chew or key rings during your time as a "construction worker" then. That's not even close. Me thinks you doth protest a bit too much. Your comment honestly reinforces this image even more.

If any actual patriots are reading this and see something like what's in this image at a protest, be very skeptical of that person. Protect yourself and don't let obvious agents tell you to brush it off as something else.

You're not wrong. Protestors can face retaliation which causes paranoia and is an obstacle in growing organizing efforts. There are some arguments in the comments about what the specific items are, but there are more explanations that fit their defenses. For example, it could really be a vest under the shirt, but maybe it's a disabled person's cooling vest and not a bulletproof vest. I urge yall to still be cautious of strangers, including waryness of people who look like they can be the correct demo for cops, without also running off people we don't really know anything about with our bad attitudes.

Hmmmm?

We still wear chains on jeans right?

Homie that's a vest. There's no shapeware for men that look like body armor.

Former LEO. That’s definitely a vest he’s wearing under his shirt, and those are definitely cuffs in his back pocket.

I read Undercover recently and it shows just how far they'll go to infiltrate those groups they deem a threat. Not the right wing groups who suggest that murdering MPs might be a good idea, obviously; just those marginally to the left of Goebbels.

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9781783350346-undercover/

Surprising that the undercover cop in the picture makes so many mistakes. He was apparently spotless.

There's big difference between undercover stings and a cop trying to blend into a public mass. The goals are entirely different.

Apparently went to the police academy (~ 3 years in Germany)

Germany. That's the difference.

Haha I am sleepy so I can’t look up the source right now: but American Intelligence has stated in the past they don’t like to infiltrate tight leftist groups because leftists usually will ask the Plant many questions. The Plant often has to read a lot to prepare so that they pass the sniff test. They’ve stated that they prefer to infiltrate any other groups (especially conservative groups) because they don’t have to read so much.

That’s an incredibly interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

He just walked away, and his fake personality disappeared immediately.

Punks got lucky. In Russia it would have ended differently.

This is the US. There are very little training requirements. The specific requirements are usually state based. Arkansas and Indiana have basically no training required. The average officer trains for 21 weeks.

Get into some of the smaller cities and they'll throw any rookie into plain clothes and call them undercover with very little undercover training.

This guy is likely more of an agitator than an investigator. He's equipped to be an enforcer, not to investigate.

You mean on the right arm? That's the other big tell. They pick a colour of the day, then every cop wears something obvious (bandana, armband, tape on the pants, etc.) in that colour so that other cops can spot that and not shoot them.

"You can tell he isn't an undercover cop, nobody wears a Cleveland guardians hat as a disguise"

I'd say the pussy vest is the biggest give away.

This infographic first turned up during the BLM protests, but one should generally be wary of undercover agents.

During Occupy, playing "Spot the Fed" was a great workout for skills I developed at DefCon. Literally every protest movement in this country is riddled with undercover agents, secret police informants, planted agitators, and spooks. Learning to ID them is a vital survival skill for activists.

Agent porkateur.

I swear Yankees caps are conservative-coded no matter where you encounter them.

Forces that regularly do plainclothes often have a "color of the day" for this reason.

They do walk a certain way

And if they're too far away to smell you can always pick one out by this handy comparison chart.

The thin blue line, is a buzzword for cop supporter

Diet Nazi imagery.

ban demonstrations, provide no evidence, commit act of violence towards unarmed protestors, cause concussions and stampedes, label them terrorists and talk about the tax money lost because there was damage to nearby buildings

Sometimes they take them off and put them on the back of their backwards hat while undercover. What happened here is they were either stolen or fell off. But you can always pick out the facial indent and tan line if they're missing.

fun fact: you can tell how long someone has been a cop by the depth of the Oakley indent on their face.

I think that you're a cop.

Why is this such a banger?

I also think that you’re a cop.

Those are just my altoids sours :(

Right now.

The hardest part is the dataset (aka labeled pictures of undercover cops). Give me some of those (A thousand? The more the better,) and I could train a small model for free, in a few days. Or a bigger more reliable one for a few bucks. I can explain specifics if you want.

AI is not some mystery box like Altman would lead you to believe, it’s hackable and totally usable by regular people.