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#FreeShia: Was Shia LaBeouf's arrest triggered by anti-Semitic trolling?
The performance art isnāt about opposition to Trump, LaBeouf told The Associated Press, but rather anti-division.
āIām just saying, āBe nice to each other.āā
Since the start of the project, Trump supporters and neo-Nazis have mounted a campaign against LaBeouf online, plotting how to disrupt the exhibit via 4chanās politically active message board /pol/ and other private threads, Buzzfeed reports.
In addition to holding āMake America Great Againā signs in front of the camera and chanting āPepe,ā the frog meme that the Anti-Defamation League has defined as a hate symbol, the most disturbing protests have involved Nazi-referencing demonstrations. On Sunday, a man approached LaBeouf and said ā1488," a neo-Nazi slogan.
On Thursday, the trolling came to a head with LaBeouf's arrest. However, an unofficial #HeWillNotDivideUs Twitter account posted a video of a man pulling LaBeouf close and saying "Hitler did nothing wrong," before LaBeouf pushes him away.
The performance art isnāt about opposition to Trump, LaBeouf told The Associated Press, but rather anti-division.
āIām just saying, āBe nice to each other.āā
Since the start of the project, Trump supporters and neo-Nazis have mounted a campaign against LaBeouf online, plotting how to disrupt the exhibit via 4chanās politically active message board /pol/ and other private threads, Buzzfeed reports.
In addition to holding āMake America Great Againā signs in front of the camera and chanting āPepe,ā the frog meme that the Anti-Defamation League has defined as a hate symbol, the most disturbing protests have involved Nazi-referencing demonstrations. On Sunday, a man approached LaBeouf and said ā1488," a neo-Nazi slogan.
On Thursday, the trolling came to a head with LaBeouf's arrest. However, an unofficial #HeWillNotDivideUs Twitter account posted a video of a man pulling LaBeouf close and saying "Hitler did nothing wrong," before LaBeouf pushes him away.