Seattle police staged sightings of Proud Boys in conversations on public police radio frequencies during last year's protests over George Floyd's murder, just after protesters had taken control of a police precinct and the police had left the "autonomous zone," according to a scathing report released Wednesday by Seattle's Office of Police Accountability (OPA).

The "misinformation effort," as the report dubbed it, "improperly added fuel to the fire" of the already tense protests, wrote OPA Director Andrew Myerberg.