You either haven't seen the post, or are being disingenuous.

In case some readers haven't seen it, the altered image (crying & wailing, instead of calm & resolute) was posted by the official white house account with the following overlay text:

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ARRESTED FAR-LEFT AGITATOR NEKIMA LEVY ARMSTRONG FOR ORCHESTRATING CHURCH RIOTS IN MINNESOTA

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The post is a reply to one made by the same account half an hour earlier, with the following text:

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MINNESOLA ARRESTS Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi

Minutes ago at my direction, @HSI_HQ and @FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota.

So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

We will share more updates as they become available.

Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.

UPDATE: A second arrest has been made at my direction. Chauntyll Louisa Allen has been taken into custody. More to come.

WE WILL PROTECT OUR HOUSES OF WORSHIP

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Obviously a joke, and we're stupid for not seeing it as one, eh?

This manipulative crap may have worked when you were in high school, but any adult with a "sense of humour and critical thinking skill" (as you put it in your other comment), would see through the ruse.

It's funny, because this exact way of thinking is what got us into this mess in the first place. Obviously he was joking when he said he would do all those terrible things!

> Obviously a joke, and we're stupid for not seeing it as one, eh?

... Do you understand what mockery is?

The "joke" is distorting her image. The reality is that she was arrested.

The story is trying to present things as if distorting her image is somehow misrepresenting what happened.

But she was in fact arrested, and nobody disputes that.

The sense of humour and critical thinking skill is what allows one to recognize the alteration of the footage. Paying attention to the surrounding context makes it clear that the footage is altered from a real event, and not made up entirely.

I don't need to see the post to understand these things. (And neither does anything you posted disagree with my analysis.)

I am not being disingenuous. I accepted that the footage is altered. Because it doesn't matter.

> Obviously he was joking when he said he would do all those terrible things!

What "terrible things" are you referring to?

As the press release explains, there was a coordinated disruption of the church service, they said they would arrest her for it, and they did.

And as the video makes clear, the disruption was a violation of the church attendees' rights. The church is private property and the protesters were trespassing. They did not leave when asked. They harassed innocent people for no clear reason.

It is in fact perfectly reasonable for the administration to be saying things like

> WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.

because they shouldn't.

Imagine if it had been a mosque instead of a church; if it had been Tucker Carlson instead of Don Lemon; if it had been about some political cause you disagree with instead of one you agree with. Would you be reacting the same way? I don't think you would.

The government "just mocking people" is already disgusting behavior that belongs to failed states, but it's not even that, it was clearly just propaganda to make the opposition look weak. If it was a "meme" they should've said so in the post before being called out.

> The government "just mocking people" is already disgusting behavior that belongs to failed states

Trump is also a citizen.

> it was clearly just propaganda to make the opposition look weak

And?

It comes across that you're upset that something you find in poor taste happened to target someone you agree with.

> If it was a "meme" they should've said so in the post before being called out.

Why would they say something that's obvious to people with common sense?