UPDATED Showdown in Portland: Antifa and BLM Hold Neighborhood Hostage, Build 'Autonomous Zone,' and Attack Police Trying to Stop Them

PJ Media ^ | 12/10/2020 | Victoria Taft

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Update below.

It’s like a scene from a dystopian movie. Antifa and Black Lives Matter™ radicals take over and squat in a Portland house belonging to someone else. Neighbors sound the alarm. Police come months later to force them to leave. Antifa takes over the street in front of the house. All hell breaks loose and cops are attacked.

This is the backstory to what’s happening right now on the ground in a neighborhood that Portland antifa radicals have essentially taken over since yesterday. They’ve blocked the street, erected walls, and now essentially hold a neighborhood hostage.

At 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Portland Police and Multnomah County Sheriff deputies raided a home that had been taken over by a group of squatters. They’d been ordered to leave by a judge, but the group stayed anyway.

Since the September 9th, individuals have converged on the property by trespassing on the home’s front and backyards, and camping on adjacent privately owned and city-owned properties. Law enforcement also learned the home was broken into and that people were entering and exiting despite the judge’s order.

Campers took over the yard and blocked traffic and access for neighbors wanting to go to their own homes.

Police made several arrests during the morning raid.

The following are names of additional people arrested:
26-year-old Malik Farrakhan – Interfering with a peace officer, resist arrest
32-year-old Benjamin Einhorn – Interfering a with a peace officer
31-year-old Coral Cloutman – Disorderly Conduct II
24-year-old Stephen Wiens – Disorderly Conduct II, Interfering a with peace officer
23-year-old Marshall Piotcowski – Disorderly Conduct II, Interfering a with peace officer
26-year-old Alicxandra Blake Lucero – Interfere with a peace officer, Resist Arrest, Trespass II

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Activists say that the people, who don’t appear to be related to one another according to arrest records, are a “family.” Maybe like Charles Manson had a “family.”

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Update 9:15 p.m. Eastern:

Since PJ Media reported on this neighborhood takeover Wednesday afternoon, Police Chief Chuck Lovell has issued an update to confirm that antifa and BLM radicals have taken over the street, possess a weapons cache, and have armed guards for the “occupation.” But, he countered that police are on the case and that the standoff can end peacefully if protesters put “down their weapons and leave the barricade.”

He implored the angry neighbors to remain cautious and “for your own safety avoid confrontations around the occupation.” He also offered that the situation could be solved “easily” but, obviously, that’s ridiculous, or else it would be over at this point. Once again, he asked for the occupiers to leave. Here’s a video of his message:

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[brownsfan]

Awesome! And those folks that voted Biden because Trump is so divisive? What now?

I hope they burn the place to the ground.

[samadams2000]

Seems like a very clean cut case for militia action to clear the area.

[PGR88]

May Portland get what it deserves, good and hard.

[G Larry]

Hmmm....

What happens to citizens who try to help the police?

[Responsibility2nd]

Is this a repeat article? A repost of old news from last summer?

No?

So why are they still mad? Don’t they believe Trump is on his way out?

[BenLurkin]

Farrakhan and Einhorn

These guys share names with two of the most disreputable men of the late 20th century.

[blueunicorn6]

The time for patience is over.

Will the people on this block allow this?

[MHGinTN]

Some people need killin’

[DesertRhino]

Wipe them out. This has gone on too long. It’s way past time to go Kent State.

[taxcontrol]

There is an easy fix.

Call out the national guard, surround the area and prohibit entry / exit except at specific points. Notify the occupants that they have x hours to surrender to one of these control points without charges, but that they will be identified. After that cut off time, they will be arrested.

Nothing in or out of that zone.

After the zone has been cleared, allow those that can provide proof of residence to return. All those arrested get tried for crimes committed inside the zone.

[rockrr]

Police come months later to force them to leave.

Ah, the Portlandia PD never fails (to fail)...

[Starboard]

Police made several arrests during the morning raid.

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And judges will let them all off.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: why are they still mad? Don’t they believe Trump is on his way out?

IT’S NOT ABOUT WHO IS PRESIDENT. It’s about taking over the United States of America and changing it completely!

If they can get cowardly local governments to not do anything, so much the better.

[MHGinTN]

Every one of the occupiers need to be charged with kidnapping, among other crimes.

[Starboard]

Exactly. They voted for it now let them live with it.

Elections have consequences. Haha

[Ebenezer]

As I posted elsewhere: Hey, Oregon! How is giving Biden your electoral votes working out for you?

[Russ]

The Portland City Council approved a new “naughty step” be installed to take care of the overflow.

[Starboard]

Sit back and enjoy the show. Portland is wallowing in problems of its own making. They are serving as a great example to other cities of what can happen when liberalism runs amuck and gets in control.