Posted on 09/02/2020 11:16:15 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Until last weekend, no one had been killed in Portland.
That changed with the shooting death of 39-year-old Aaron Danielson — by a still-unidentified suspect — signifying an even darker turn as the city has seemingly become a magnet for armed right-wing militias and left-wing agitators.
Trump himself was quick to blame his new go-to target, antifa “thugs,” a perception growing out of reports that the victim was a member or sympathizer of a Washington-based right-wing group Patriot Prayer.
Former FBI agent Michael German said “the story that isn't being told is the escalation of violence from out-of-towners who come to Portland to wreak havoc without police interference.”
German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, published a report on connections between law enforcement and white supremacist and far-right militant groups, highlighting the history of Portland police officers with ties to white supremacists and racist groups. It concludes the department’s failure to adequately address earlier allegations of white supremacist activity set the stage for the public to believe officers failed to control violent rallies instigated by far-right militants and white supremacist groups starting in 2016.
Saturday’s rally for Trump was just the latest in a series of gatherings over the past month resulting in violent clashes between far-right activists and armed militants on one side, and Black Lives Matter protesters and antifascist activists on the other.
The events, which attracted many of the same far-right groups and individual activists that have been engaged in violent brawls in Portland in recent years, have renewed questions about the Portland Police’s apparently hands-off and even friendly approach to these groups — particularly contrasted to the treatment of participants in protests demanding police accountability, which have consistently been declared riots.
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The Brennan Center was named for a far Left SCOTUS ‘Justice’. Everything that comes out of the Brennan Center is Left.
Left
Extreme left-wing communists riot, burn down buildings and kill people all over the USA.
Police and mayors abdicate their responsibility and lay out the welcome mat for these rioters, encouraging them.
And the msm calls them “peaceful protesters.”
People get mad and protect themselves or others who the authorities abandoned and they are called “right wing agitators” my that same msm.
And they wonder why they are called “fake news.”
Proud 100% Antifa is how he describes himself.
Why doesn’t the left wing media show all those of “extreme alt right white supremacists” (their terms for conservatives) throwing bricks, looting stores and starting fires. All they show is attacks by their bloody heads against the sticks, stones and skateboards of the “peaceful protesters”.
A Left-wing death squad kills a Trump supporter, and there are problems with “militias”?
How’s that work?
This is a classic propaganda effort by the commies.
By the book.
They know the citizenry will not play by the same rules as the cops. So they want to force the cops to oppose those citizens.
Thereby co opting their martial support.
However, it’s beginning to look like the various police forces in the area have had it with their sh!t.
And it’s likely there’s another “right wing demonstration” due this weekend. (right wingers have jobs)
If the US goes down, everybody goes down.
“has a sly subtext that the mere presence of “right-wingers” in public is illegitimate and constitutes a provocation justifying an aggressive - even violent - response. “
Biden said so overtly and directly just today.
I would call it a headline, not subtext.
If the US goes down, everybody goes down.
“I see nothing but CW.”
There is no other plausible scenario.
Patriot Prayer is a Christian Conservative group but they are NOT white supremacists, Nazis, etc...founder Joey Gibson is mixed race, and the members are more diverse than than 99% of the lily-white mob of antifa trust-fund brats trying to burn down Portland.
What draws the ire of Portland’s far-left media about this group is they actually CONFRONT antifa where they live, and they don’t back down. If that means a physical fight, so be it. The murder of Jay Danielson by antifa was NOT provoked, however. Jay actually lives in/near downtown Portland and was NOT confronting any antifa thugs at the time he was executed, despite the disinfo campaign they’ve launched against him. He was walking home. He was hunted down like a dog by the killer, and assassinated in cold blood.
The killers name has been reported all over the internet and by local media, but it’s been 4 days and not a word about him or the murder from either Portland PD or the DA. Shameful.
If you think the left-wing neo-Marxist moonbats are nutty NOW, wait until Trump gets re-elected. Better keep your head on a swivel.
Yeah, I”ve been saying that 2021 will make 2020 look like the salad days. And that is regardless of WHO wins in november, though the results will determine the type of pain.
“Former FBI agent Michael German...”
The FBI has declared that veterans are potential terrorists. The reason why is that veterans are more accurate shooters than the FBI weenies. That terrifies the FBI.
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