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Portland man hospitalized after armed standoff with militant leftists: 'I stood my ground and I would do it all over again'
The Blaze ^ | May 9, 2021 | PAUL SACCA

Posted on 05/09/2021 3:45:42 PM PDT by lowbridge

Joseph Hall said he was simply trying to go back home after his workday in Portland. However, he was soon involved in an armed standoff with militant leftists who had closed off roads as part of their protests against police brutality. Hall, a 53-year-old handyman, ended up in the hospital with several broken bones and other serious injuries after the black-clad militants severely beat him up.

While driving home in his red pickup truck, a moped allegedly cut him off. Then a man with a handheld radio instructed Hall to stop his truck. Hall claims that another vehicle blocked his path, "and all of a sudden I have three or four people around me." Some members of the group dressed in all black were armed, and pointed their rifles at Hall.

Hall told The Oregonian how the situation escalated quickly:

Hall said he grabbed hold of a non-lethal handgun that can shoot hard pellets to try to get the people to clear the way and hadn't realized there was a march until people circled his truck. He said he heard a woman outside on a megaphone yelling at the crowd to let him go, but the people continued to block his truck and call him a "Nazi."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antifa; bidenvoters; blm; easterneuropean; josephhall; portland; southerneuropean
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To: lowbridge

Another story about WWIII going on all around us yet no one wants to acknowledge it.


21 posted on 05/09/2021 4:10:16 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

“Everybody’s talkin’ about it, but nobody does anything. “

I have no experience in this area, but people say that if you form a militia, some large percentage of your recruits will be FBI informants.


22 posted on 05/09/2021 4:12:34 PM PDT by dsc (Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.)
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To: DEPcom
Ya, he should have kept driving, as he had a clear path.

He got out because somebody slapped his truck, but that was a bad move.

Cops let the commies open carry, but not the patriots.

23 posted on 05/09/2021 4:12:48 PM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: Dennis M.

If he had some kind of a pellet gun, I don’t think you need a concealed-carry permit. Those aren’t legally classified as guns. I have a Byrna pepper-spray pistol, and it does not require a gun permit.


24 posted on 05/09/2021 4:12:55 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: EvilCapitalist

If armed militias go after Antifa then they had better be prepared to fight the police.

That’s the reality here just as it was when German police protected the Brownshirts.


25 posted on 05/09/2021 4:13:53 PM PDT by MercyFlush (Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. )
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To: Skywise

Www.militia.com


26 posted on 05/09/2021 4:14:48 PM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Pellet gun? Carry a 9mm. There is no reason to carry a pellet gun other than to give them an excuse to shoot.


27 posted on 05/09/2021 4:15:01 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: lowbridge

Remember the Bundy’s and the FBI shooting down Leroy Finicum?

Our own government takes the side of the criminals over and over again.


28 posted on 05/09/2021 4:15:11 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Fightin Whitey

There’s a price to pay. I’d like to believe you’d eventually be absolved of wrongdoing but your life and fortune and sacred honor may be ruined ala Kyle Rittenhouse, God bless him.


29 posted on 05/09/2021 4:18:25 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: lowbridge

We need the means and a place to archive all such street confrontations for several reasons:

1. To learn. We should also seek to gather as many details as possible so that other may learn how to better respond in the future.

2. As background evidence for when the eventual person uses counteractive and otherwise lethal force against such aggressions, where such videos can be used in their defense.

3. To provide video evidence of the perpetrators of these actions for future prosecutions and/or retribution.

The time has long since passed to complain about the double-standards, the lack of law enforcement, or the actions of the enemy. We must accept reality as it is presented to us. Anywhere can become a battlefield at any time one walks out the door. We are past ‘buy more guns’ and keeping your powder dry.

Realities must be accepted.

Courage must be acquired.

Intelligence must be gathered.

Actions must be taken.

Anything else is asking for repeated aggression.

my $0.02

jimjohn - OUT.


30 posted on 05/09/2021 4:18:48 PM PDT by jimjohn (...like Donkey Kong.)
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To: lowbridge

I read the story and watched the video. He was on his way out of there when he got a hair up his butt and decided to get out and confront the thugs. Dumb, dumb, dumb. He stated that he had a concealed carry permit and a little .38 revolver and was facing greater than 10 thugs, one armed with a rifle. He should have sped out of the danger zone and if he wanted to be bad ass he could have turned around, achieved ramming speed, and taken out a whole bunch of antifaholes. Of course, hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20.


31 posted on 05/09/2021 4:18:57 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps on comin'.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

“...Everybody’s talkin’ about it, but nobody does anything...”

Ain’t that the truth!!!!

I’m 72 years old with one leg, but I’ll run over someone before I’ll let them kick my ass...


32 posted on 05/09/2021 4:19:13 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: lowbridge

This can be stopped in one day, Portland refuses to do so.


33 posted on 05/09/2021 4:20:31 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: lowbridge
video of the fight
34 posted on 05/09/2021 4:23:25 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: dsc

RE: FBI informants among the recruits.

Be especially suspicious of the ones joining up with you in the woods with camo t shirts and belts paired with pressed black suit pants and shiny black leather shoes.


35 posted on 05/09/2021 4:25:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: lowbridge

“163.190 Menacing.
(1) A person commits the crime of menacing if by word or conduct the person intentionally attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury.
(2) Menacing is a Class A misdemeanor.”

https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors163.html


36 posted on 05/09/2021 4:27:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: G Larry

“He got out because somebody slapped his truck, but that was a bad move.”

The video would make a good lesson for others. Not sure about local laws there, but in my State he every right to fire his weapon.


37 posted on 05/09/2021 4:28:13 PM PDT by DEPcom (Floyd die from being a drug addict. Drugs kill)
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To: lowbridge

The place is populated with and run by trashy foreigners, many of them only three or four generations removed from the uglier parts of Europe. It’s an unAmerican no-go zone full of garbage that oozed into California before flowing into Oregon. Most of the more western states are getting to be that way.


38 posted on 05/09/2021 4:33:36 PM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: lowbridge
Americans do not give a darn about this stuff...

Everyone should just keep blissfully grazing...

The really bad stuff is on its way, so just:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...

39 posted on 05/09/2021 4:35:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: DEPcom

Same here. Why did he stop the truck?


40 posted on 05/09/2021 4:38:45 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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