IG: @HappyThanksgivingGuy
Twitter: @bennetthaselton
(Twitter has a 15-character limit on usernames so "HappyThanksgivingGuy" wouldn't fit)
I (Bennett Haselton) am the guy who got kicked out of most Seattle protests in 2020 because I called out people in the movement for talking about killing cops (and, to a lesser extent, because I didn't agree when the movement pivoted to the goal of "abolishing the police").
The group didn't want to admit they were kicking people out who didn't agree about cop-murder, so they claimed it was because of the conversations I had with two women in the group, including one that I sent a single text outside of a group chat saying "Happy Thanksgiving" (hence my new nickname). The women were only too happy to go along with it, since I had fallen out with them after calling them out for their actions as well. (Miracle Howard in particular doxxed a reporter's home address, told one cop to kill himself, and said to another pair of cops "I'll bet you eat his ass! Wait, are you guys gay?!". I called her out for all of this, so of course she was pissed and went along with trying to ruin my reputation.)
I linked the original messages below. The conversations were "real", but no sane person would consider them harassment. (I should add: Neither of these women ever said anything about not wanting contact. If someone has told you not to contact them, then any contact, no matter how innocuous, is technically harassment. But that wasn't the case here.)
But even to this day, many people in the Seattle/Portland protest movement who heard about the situation, still refuse to look at the messages or accept what really happened. They're idiots.
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Statement regarding Christina Devitt case: In 2021, Christina launched a public Instagram campaign to try and get one of her neighbors kicked out of his housing. Since I knew Christina had a history of inciting violence against people (she had previously gotten an Antifa mob to attack me and several other innocent bystanders at a massive protest clash in Portland), I figured this was putting the man in danger, so I contacted the neighbor's housing board and said, "You don't know me, but a woman is trying to get one of your residents kicked out by claiming that he was 'creeping on kids'; I have the video of what really happened." I brought them the video (which they hadn't seen), they watched it and agreed it showed him doing nothing wrong, and closed the investigation against him.
Largely because I submitted this evidence, Christina tried to get a restraining order against me, but the judge said that if you start a public investigation against someone, third parties are allowed to come forward with evidence relevant to the investigation and it's obviously not "stalking", and dismissed the case. But Christina was apparently so furious that I had given evidence in the case, she took a picture of me getting out of my car and posted it claiming I was "stalking" her, obviously intending to trick people into thinking the picture showed me following her or harassing her at her house. Under oath in court, she admitted that what was really happening in the picture was that she approached me when I got out of my car to give evidence to the housing board, and I refused to engage with her.
Christina also has two non-protest-related felony convictions (Theft in the 2nd Degree and Trafficking in Stolen Property 2nd Degree). She is also the most prominent figure in Seattle protests who has openly encouraged violence against police officers (here and here among other instances).
