Posted on 03/28/2021 7:46:15 PM PDT by blueplum
Dueling protest groups faced off near the grounds of the Oregon Capitol building Sunday afternoon. Police tried to separate the groups, but skirmishes broke out in the surrounding blocks...
...Right-wing demonstrators initially gathered in Sandy for a “Freedom Rally” with plans to travel to the Capitol. A flier for the event said they planned a “flag wave to honor those who fought for our freedoms.”
...The plans attracted more than 150 left-wing counter-protesters, who arrived at the Capitol hours earlier, some carrying banners with symbols tied to the antifa movement. They billed their gathering as a “direct action in opposition to a fascist event.”
The crowd pelted passing trucks — some flying a combination of American, Thin Blue Line and Trump flags — with paint and objects that in some cases shattered windows. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
A nearby police officer ordered the man to the ground...and his truck, decorated with American flags, was searched."
No word on whether those throwing rocks at the truck were also searched.
Some don’t know.
Others laugh at their useful idiot minions.
True believers on the Left never considered facts other than their own narrative.
Oregon senate just passed some anti-gun legislation.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
A nearby police officer ordered the man to the ground...and his truck, decorated with American flags, was searched."
In Oregon this is the crime of "brandishing".
Down from Portland, up from Eugene or routine ‘lil sis’ Kate Brown supporters;
doesn’t matter, just antifa being fascist still.
“brandishing” should not be a crime when being attacked.
Patriotic events are now fascist.
honestly don’t mind dude being arrested. First rule of survival is don’t be stooopid.
But I think it’s a cryin shame that every time the 90ish hardcore antifa club show up, nobody kettles and arrests them and escorts them to the county limits with a judge’s warning not to show their faces again. How easy a job does antifa have to make it for them? Forget all this east-coast coddling - this is the West, by golly, run them out of town like any other claimjumper.
The tensions between the groups are high you might recall an Anitfa guy gunning down a man in Portland last year in the “Patriot Prayer” group.
The Anitfa guy killed in a gun battle with police several days later in Washington state.
how was he “stooopid” unless by that you means that no one should be able to display their willingness to defend themselves. If he had pulled out a baseball bat or ball bearing sling shot would that be ok with you?
The guy killed ‘suicide by police’ in WA was the one murdering on camera an opposing man.
The guy who called himself “Antifa” was the fellow who died in the hail of gunfire days after he gunned down the guy in Portland from the “Patriot Prayer” group.
that’s what I said
You may be correct, but it is our responsibility to know the law and follow existing law, not what we want the law to be.
Note how the newspaper spins reality to try to make the two sides equivalent. A headline closer to reality would be "Leftist protestors attack peaceful conservatives, damaging their trucks".
Breaking car windows, throwing paint, and smashing somebody else's vehicle with a bat isn't a "protest", it is criminal vandalism.
Seems like something the police should be arresting the perpetrators for.
It should also be the responsibility of the police that are present to take action to stop the Antifa crowd from vandalizing passing cars. I am sure that is a crime in Oregon, and the police would instantly arrest any conservative who was breaking out the windows of passing cars with Antifa or their supporters in them.
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