Mitchell Carlson: ‘Umbrella Man’ potentially IDed

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Mitchell Carlson is accused in a police search warrant application of being a Hell’s Angels biker who may be the notorious so-called “Umbrella Man” authorities believe purposely incited violence in Minneapolis by breaking windows at an AutoZone store after the death of George Floyd. He has not been charged with a crime but is under investigation, the application reveals.

The application further accuses Carlson, who is a Minnesota man per his criminal history, of being a “full-fledged member of the Hell’s Angels” biker gang and a “known associate of the Aryan Cowboys” who police believe was purposely trying to stir up racial discord after Floyd’s death. Police described the Aryan Cowboys as “a known prison gang out of Minnesota and Kentucky.”

The Anti-Defamation League describes the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood as “a small white supremacist prison/street gang based primarily in Minnesota and Kentucky. Its main symbol consists of a helmeted and winged skull with the initials ACB.”

Carlson’s full name is Mitchell Wesley Carlson. Heavy obtained the application for a search warrant from the Hennepin County court system. You can read it in full here. Ever since a viral video emerged of the black-clad, gas-mask wearing Umbrella Man systematically breaking windows before wide-scale looting and arson fires broke out in Minneapolis, speculation has raged about his identity, with some on social media arguing from the start that he was an outsider trying to incite a riot, not a member of Antifa.

Now it emerges that Minneapolis police believe Carlson might be the Umbrella Man. Erika Christensen, a Minnesota peace officer, made the application for a warrant to search premises and property, including cell phone calls and texts. She was also seeking the cell phone towers that Carlson’s cell phone was “pinging off of.”

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But I thought Antifa didnt have members, and also doesn't actually exist? How would you determine non-membership from membership here? Antifa isn't an organisation and doesn't have members, but this guy super isn't a member?

Also, are we supposed to see similarities from those two photos?

Since no facial features can be seen and gloves were worn, why is someone focusing on this guy?
And, I thought that Hells Angels could not belong to any other organization.
Need more information.

Either way, not really material to the questions I asked.

Not sure that it is the same person...Best picture I could find of the face of the "Umbrella man" doesn't seem to match the person photographed above:


The spacing of the eyes (and to a degree how "open" they appear) seems wrong, for a start (although this could also just be my inability to recognise faces...).

And, as I was about to post, this image popped up:


Again, while similar, I'm not entire certain it's the same person, but as previously noted, faces and my eyes\brain don't always work well together.

What I can see of his face - which admittedly isn't much - looks awfully similar. Plus the suspect is a jackhole white nationalist with insane dreams of starting a race war.

I'm not great with cursive, but if that last one is supposed to be a "C", then it's his own initials. A sure sign of a profound depth of character, I'm sure.

what about now