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The president of the St. Paul police union has sharply criticized some protesters at Saturdays Black Lives Matter march to the Minnesota State Fair for what he calls a disgusting chant promoting violence against officers.

Hundreds of protesters, led by the Black Lives Matter St. Paul organization, marched north along Snelling Avenue to the gates of the fairgrounds Saturday to protest racial inequities in St. Paul and elsewhere. Some demonstrators shouted chants criticizing police as they were being escorted by officers who cleared the way for the demonstration, said David Titus, head of the St. Paul Police Federation.

A short video posted on Twitter shows that at one point in the march, at least several protesters were at the front carrying a banner and shouting, Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon! as the camera pans to show police on bikes, squad cars and a utility vehicle.

Quite simply that promotes death to cops, Titus said in a statement posted on the unions Facebook page. In an interview Monday afternoon, Titus said several officers told him they were upset with the comments.

Here we got these cops protecting this march and then all of a sudden they make the message about violence against police officers, Titus said. I dont find it peaceful talking about offing cops.

In a statement Monday, Dennis Flaherty, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, called the chant deplorable and threatening.

The man who shot the video, who wanted to be identified only as Niko, said the chant occurred near the end of the demonstration as protesters walked away from the fairgrounds. He said it lasted about 30 seconds, and he added that when the chanting ended, a police officer laughed and made a joke about bacon.

Rashad Turner, the lead organizer of Black Lives Matter St. Paul, who helped set up the protest, said the chant was not a threat against officers lives.

It was a chant, Turner said. I think that the crazy thing is that theres all this uproar about rhetoric but there isnt uproar about the facts. Just because they provide us with their self-appointed escort does not mean it erases the fact that they are the deadliest police department in the state.

Beginning in 2009, St. Paul police have shot and killed 11 men, nine of whom were people of color. No other law enforcement agency in Minnesota has used deadly force more often over the past six years.

Saturdays march was the latest in a series of Black Lives Matter rallies and protests around the country, which have largely centered on police brutality in the aftermath of police killings of black men and women across the country.

Monday afternoon, when asked about the chant by an anchorwoman on CNN, Turner restated his concern that too much focus was being placed on rhetoric.

During the CNN interview, last weeks shooting of a sheriffs deputy at a suburban Houston gas station was referenced. The alleged shooter, Shannon J. Miles, 30, who is black, was charged Saturday in connection with the killing.

When asked by CNN if the chant by protesters in St. Paul Saturday incites violence, Turner said that the Black Lives Matter movement does not condone violent acts.

We do not want to see black people being killed, Turner told the Star Tribune. We dont want to see cops being killed.

Saturdays protest began about 11 a.m. at Hamline Park in St. Paul. Marchers walked north to the fairgrounds, enduring some heckling from onlookers. At one point, the crowd deviated from the announced march route and attempted to enter a Como Avenue fair entrance, which was quickly blocked by police officers. St. Paul police said no arrests were made.

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A fraudulent Black Lives Matter page on Facebook run by a white Australian man amassed 700,000 followers and $100,000 in donations before it was shut down by the tech company.

The real, verified Black Lives Matter page on Facebook has over 320,000 followers.

The unofficial page was reportedly being run by a man named Ian Mackay, a National Union of Workers official in Australia, and was administered by two anonymous profiles that had domains linking to Mackay, reports CNN.

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The networkcited a source claiming that one of the accounts was tied to Mackay by name and an Australian bank account. All fundraising connected to the fake Facebook page, via PayPal and other sites, has also been suspended.

Activists involved with Black Lives Matter decried the fake account and said tech companies like Facebook have been slow to act on these incidents.

The screen grab above shows the real, verified Black Lives Matter Facebook page. (Facebook )

These fake BLM accounts and fake BLM people literally stealing money off of Black Death is so stomach churning I cant even begin to explain, Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, said on Twitter. We told [Facebook] over and over again to shut that s--t down. And it wouldnt. Glad its down now.

A Facebook spokesperson told Fox News that they are looking into what happened with the fake page.

We investigated this situation as soon as it was brought to our attention, and disabled the Page admin for maintaining multiple profiles on the platform," a Facebook spokesperson told Fox News.

The incident comes as Facebook faces a host of problems: CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify today and tomorrow under oath and get grilled by lawmakers, continuing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and the platform's issues with fake news and Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Cullors said that its unfortunate that people were scammed by the fake accounts and pages.

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"We deal with the co-option of our work locally, nationally, and globally," the official Black Lives Matter Twitter account said. "It is important that platforms like @facebook and @Twitter do their due diligence so supporters arent misled and resources arent misappropriated."

DeRay McKesson, another well-known BLM activist, told the New York Post that the fast rise of the movement has left it vulnerable to such schemes.

Its important to remember the movement was organic and no organizations started the protests that spread across the country, McKesson said. The consequences of that is it hasnt been easy to think about authenticity in the digital space.

Mackay, who has been suspended by the Australian union pending an investigation, also reportedly registered dozens of other websitesmany of which were tied to black civil rights.

Christopher Carbone is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @christocarbone.

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The largest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is reportedly a fraud run by a white man in Australia who used it to take in more than $100,000 in donations.

The page was simply called Black Lives Matter and had nearly 700,000 followers, compared with the 322,000 for the verified page of the same name, CNN reported Monday.

The bogus page has been suspended and online payment platforms PayPal, Patreon, Donorbox and Classy have stopped working with it.

Some of the money raised through the fake page reportedly went into a bank in Australia.

The page was tied to Ian Mackay, an official with the National Union of Workers in Australia. He has served as an organizer and branch vice president, CNN reported.

Hes been suspended pending a union investigation.

The NUW is not involved in, and has not authorized, any activities with reference to claims made in CNNs story, said union national secretary Tim Kennedy.

CNN reported that Mackay has registered dozens of websites, many of which claim to be tied to black-rights issues.

In April 2015, he registered blackpowerfist.com using his name, email address and phone number.

Patrisse Cullors, a BLM co-founder, said she was troubled by the apparent scam.

We rely on donors who believe in our work and our cause and that [the] money will be used in a way that is respectful, Cullors said.

DeRay McKesson, another prominent BLM activist, said the fast rise of the movement has left it vulnerable to such schemes.

Its important to remember the movement was organic and no organizations started the protests that spread across the country, McKesson said. The consequences of that is it hasnt been easy to think about authenticity in the digital space.

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At least 11 people were arrested, most for disorderly conduct, during a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City Wednesday night as hundreds gathered to express their anger over the recent death of Stephon Clark.

The protesters marched from Columbus Circle to Times Square, approximately 15 to 20 blocks, according to ABC station WABC-New York. Social media videos of the march showed at least one police officer leaping over a barricade to make an arrest.

Clark, 22, was killed in Sacramento on March 18 when two police officers shot at him 20 times as he stood in his grandmother's backyard holding a cellphone.

Police were responding to a 911 call that a suspect allegedly was breaking car windows and hiding in a yard nearby. According to body-cam footage, the officers thought Clark may have been holding a toolbar or some other form of weapon.

The Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to deliver the eulogy at Clark's funeral Thursday in Sacramento.

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As we move into the fall of 2016, violent confrontations between black men and police of varied ethnicities continue to occur and be televised on national news, inevitably followed by the Black Lives Matter movement, which attempts to stop the shooting of black people by police because they are feared to be violent and felonious by being violent and felonious. Leaving aside their dubious logic, it is quite possible that any ROK reader living in or visiting America might find themselves on the wrong side of a riot, so heres some advice on that potential situation.

Whether youre a swastika-packing 1488 Stormfronter, or a Bernie Sanders hipster, if youre white, the BLM is going to hate on you, definitely beat you up and rob you, possibly rape you (if youre female or theyre gay), and maybe even kill you. This goes the same for Asians, and probably Hispanics and anything other than black people. Hell, you might even need to be Wesley Snipes black to be truly immune from harm.

Point being, theres no reasoning with these people at this point, and you need to regard ALL of them as dangerous, and only work on getting yourself out of there. There are three main situations where you might find yourself up against the BLM.

If youre out for a night on the town, and you turn the corner and theres the riot, you have some quick decisions to make. Best thing to do is head the other direction immediately in a quiet and discreet manner. Similar to the typical zombie movie, if you can get away without the mob noticing you, you win.

If they do notice you, now is the time to run like hell provided you have a decent lead on them. Part of my yet-to-be-written guide on tactical clothing is to always wear shoes in which you can run, and, although I will defer to my colleague Mr. Hallecks works on fitness, part of my standards is being able to run a good ways at the drop of a hat.

What if theyre close and they notice you? Theyll approach and either immediately engage in violence on your person, or start talking a big game, gearing themselves up for engaging in that same violence. Hopefully youre armed.

The legality here is reasonable expectation of harm. The mob has disparity of force; they dont need to be armed, although some will be, to be a lethal threat to you. However, you need to wait for a clear threat; you cannot legally shoot a mob not doing anything, but, on the other hand, you do not need to wait for them to assault you either. If they are assaulting someone else with deadly force, or they say something implying they are about to assault you with deadly force, that is the green light for you to employ self defense.

Once they notice you and start heading your way, Id draw whatever weapon you have and hold it at your side. As soon as it escalates into justifying lethal force, pick the leader, and put one upper-center mass. Headshots are hard to do, and youre looking for some shock value here; anything having to do with the trachea will make some pretty disgusting noises.

If its a small mob, chances are it will break if you blast their ringleaders and they will run from you. If its a big mob, you have a brief moment while the mob will flounder for a second after youve taken out the leader, and that is when you run like hell. You may have to periodically turn and shoot at some people chasing you, but they should get the hint. Conserve ammo.

Im not a knife fighter; about all I know is youre going to get cut in a knife fight no matter how good you are. Saps and batons are also good weapons; pepper spray, not so much. You may have to make an improvised club if you have nothing. If you truly have nothing, throw the first punch and put him down, and that might be enough in itself.

In a one-on-one shooting, I advise shooting to end the threat which should also kill the guy, then unloading the gun and calling the cops and filing as the victim. The more important part of this is to never let it get this far. Your job, when on the move on foot, is to see everyone before they see you and immediately head the other way if you see trouble. I would recommend the The Talk: Non-black version for the required mentality. Ive got no issue with most any single black person, but, when theres a lot of them and non-black you in the same area, you can get killed even if youre not racist.

The BLM seems to delight in blocking roads and being general pains in the ass. While this is illegal, its not something for which you can shoot them, or even run them over. However, just like the above scenario when youre on foot, you can, and should, employ deadly force when the mob has done so to others, or makes threats to do so to you.

This includes things like breaking a car window, trying to open a door, or trying to disable your vehicle. I would use any sort of physical contact with the car as a wide definition of trying to disable the vehicle. This also goes for any credible threat to do so, and it doesnt have to be the guy you aim for that said it. All that is required is you being legitimately in fear of your life, or of your companions, or of serious injury.

Do not get boxed in. Always leave a drivable space behind the car in front of you, and you should never hang out in the middle lanes, or left lane, of highly trafficed roads. Once you can no longer change lanes freely, you should stay in the right lane, keep a space, and be vigilant once you come to a stop.

Let them protest, but the instant they turn violent, even if it is not your car, pull onto the shoulder, and punch it. The idea here is an impressive, but controllable speed. 30 mph is plenty fast to wreck a rioter and keep your momentum up, but not make you lose control. You want them to be diving for cover, not getting ready to swing at your vehicle. Lay on the horn, do not stop, and hit anyone who wont move.

Once clear, you will need to call this in. Might want to call the lawyer first, briefly, but you need to identify as the victim to the police, and you want to be first, because someone in the mob got you, your vehicle, and your license plate on their phones camera, and, as fast as you can say Dindu Nuffin, theyre going to be saying they didnt do anything to deserve it. Remember, they started being violent, and you were in fear for your life.

Lastly, if you do get boxed in, or your vehicle is disabled, you may need to abandon it. You may want to use it as cover, then refer to the previous on foot section.

The media made a big deal about the Pulse Nightclub shooting when a bunch of patrons were killed when they were hiding in the bathroom. People dont realize the power of having predictable entryways to a position. Get lined up on the door to the room you are in, and drop the first guy who breaks the door down. If youve got a club or a knife, stand to the side of the door with the doorknob, and stick him or smack him as he comes in. If youve got a gun, get a rest, and you may punch through to the guy behind him as well.

That being said, always have another exit so you dont get trapped in there. Stay away from windows and keep lights off so you can hide. Once youve got a room secured, this is a great time to call the cops. Say exactly where you are and clearly state how scared you are. Feel free to embellish on the size of the mob, its violence, and any threats they may be yelling. This will get the police there faster, establish your innocence before the fact in case you have to shoot, and also put the blame of the shooting on the police since they were obviously not there fast enough if said shooting does, in fact, occur.

A worse scenario is fleeing into a building that is hostile already. Best thing to do there is keep moving and haul ass out the back door.

While this is theoretical on my end, and backed up by advice from various experts quoted throughout, your mileage may indeed vary. Your main takeaways need to be to stay armed, stay vigilant, and remain in control of the situation, because your odds go way down once you directly face off with a riot. Stay safe.

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