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Posted on 02/23/2022 10:32:32 AM PST by algore
A 60 year-old Antifa activist was shot dead by a far-right furry while blocking traffic at a Black Lives Matter rally in Portland, it was claimed.
June Knight was shot in the head at point-blank range on Saturday at Normandale Park when the suspect, named as Benjamin Jeffrey Smith, 43, walked up to her and a group of protesters and shot her in the head at close range.
Smith is a machinist who is said to have posted regularly on far-right forums, backed Kyle Rittenhouse and moaned about crime in Portland also shot four other women, it is claimed. He is also said to be a member of the furry community, who dress up in cartoonish animal outfits and attend gatherings together.
After Smith allegedly shot and killed Knight, he was himself shot by another marcher who was armed. That marcher was arrested, but has since been freed by police, and has not been identified.
Smith remains critically-ill in hospital. The group who were marching did so to commemorate Patrick Kimmons, a black man shot and killed by Portland Police in 2018.
Knight's wife Katherine Knapp said her late spouse would have reasoned with Smith and tried to de-escalate the situation.
'She would have been the one talking to him, to deescalate things,' she told the Oregonian. 'She was really good at that and trying to be human with him and trying to understand.'
Knightly, who was also known as T-Rex, was a mother to a grown-up son who was a longtime LGBT rights activist. She had survived from two rounds of cancer, her wife Katherine Knapp told the Oregonian, and was using a cane to get around while she waited on a knee replacement. She was also partially retired and operated a vape store is southeast Portland.
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That’s old. In the 1960s it was “Chicks up front!”
SMH - Simple Harmonic Motion.
SHM - Simple Harmonic Motion.
The author of this piece thought it very important to let us know that the “far-right” shooter was a “FURRY”. (I had to look it up).
The PJ media article is based on the word of the female protester who interrupted the police news conference shouting that claim.
Zero factual reporting. What I’d like to know is if that female protestor is also Kristina Knapp, the “wife” of the deceased.
Inquiring minds want to know.
They more Antifas who are put out of action, the better for the nation.
It’s Katherine Knapp, I’m getting her half confused with the roommate.
The return fire (if that is what happened) would have been a clear case of self-defense, and the defender would legitimately have avoided arrest or public identification.
If we still had anything close to a "Rule-of-Law", of course.
The original report of this story was so wrong that I cannot be certain of what actually happened. The updated reports have a number of odd discrepancies in them as well.
An "alt-right" furry? I have low confidence in that detail. Smells like propaganda.
ANTIFA cleaned up their brass and lawyered up immediately? Confidence is high on that detail. We give "our guys" exactly the same advice.
Multiple armed ANTIFA at the staging point? Maybe. I always assume that they have armed cadres in the back ranks of these events nowadays.
I would not confront "protestors" unless I was with a sizeable party of friends who are competent fighters and blocked from leaving the area. There is no upside potential.
911. “We have a killer rabbit at 5th and Main.”
Leftists ALWAYS Liquidate other Leftists.
ALWAYS.
The only variable is the amount of time that passes before they do it.
That depends on when their fellow Useful Idiot becomes No Longer Useful and may be able to replace their superior.
Stalin killed Millions of Leftists, Mao killed Hundreds of Millions of Leftists, American Democrats will eventually do better.
So the nutbag claiming it was the Gypsy Jokers at the press conference is Hailley Nolan according to Andy Ngo.
I smell disinformation from Antifa doing their best to paint the machinist with multiple calumnies. The fact is, Antifa cleaned up the brass and deleted phone videos and instructed everyone to not cooperate with the investigation.
It will be interesting to hear what the alleged shooter has to say about who shot first.
The opposing rifleman then put Smith out of commission.
Smith wins four to one.
It’s Oregon. Anything invasive leads to a MERSA infection.
What’s a “furry”?
Maybe I don’t want to know.
Gotta defend the Bill Run Reservior, here. Cleanest water anywhere. I don’t think they even fluoridate their water. In my experience, Oregon’s weird are drawn to Portland. No chemical treatment necessary, beyond the self-administered hallucinogens.
There is case law where a belligerent was prosecuted for murder when claiming self defense. It fails self defense if you start a fight and then kill the victim who was defending himself from you. In other words, was the original shooter the belligerent, or was he defending himself from a mob who started attacking him? If the latter, then the shooter who shot him should not be let off as he would be the belligerent.
There’s no such thing as a “far right furry”. They’re mostly homos/pedos.
Potentially the same event with four different descriptions I’ve now heard. The first was BLM vs AntiFa. The second was AntiFa vs Gypsy Joker, the third was BLM and/or AntiFa vs one homeowner and second black homeowner told them to leave and shots were fired, and now this one.
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