Portland Sheriff Cites Tear Gas Ban for Standing Down on Policing Protests: ‘No Sound Tactical Options’
Sheriff Mike Reese said his agency won’t help with an expected clash in Portland between Antifa and the Proud Boys citing the tear gas ban.
Sheriff Mike Reese said his agency won’t help with an expected clash in Portland between Antifa and the Proud Boys citing the tear gas ban.
Flames surged in Portland on Wednesday night, after a rioter lit a large Molotov cocktail and threw it at the police.
A police officer on a bicycle was knocked to the ground and then attacked by several rioters as he got to his feet and attempted to get away. Including one rioter, who ran up from behind and cracked the officer in the back of the head with a baseball bat.
A home belonging to supporters of President Donald Trump in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday morning before sunrise, according to a Facebook post.
A large group of demonstrators set-up a roadblock in Denver on Wednesday night, as part of a wave of protests that swept over the country in wake of the Grand Jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case.
Just as the corporate media have been smearing Donald Trump since he launched his successful run for the presidency, editors on Wikipedia have done the same. This has included a college professor at the beginning of Trump’s term pushing students to add attacks on the President, editors placing mocking or incendiary articles about him on the site’s front page, equating Trump with the Nazis, and advancing the Russian collusion and Ukraine “quid pro quo” smears that have dominated his Administration.
A USA Today/Ipsos Poll that shows that a majority of the country is disgusted with the Antifa/Black Lives Matter rioters and the national media.
Seattle hired a man who led violent protests in the city and who was convicted of running a prostitution operation as a policing consultant.
A video posted on Twitter shows a black man in a Portland, Oregon, neighborhood confronting Antifa protesters about not being locals.
Protesters in Portland, many of whom have taken their activism to residential areas of the city, threatened to burn down a home for displaying an American flag.
Greek police in Thessaloniki arrested 51 far-left Antifa anarchist extremists who attacked officers following a demonstration in the city on Wednesday night.
The FBI director said the agency is conducting “domestic terrorism” probes targeting “violent anarchists” inspired by the Antifa ideology.
Following the murder of Trump supporter Aaron Danielson by self-identified Antifa member and Black Lives Matter activist Michael Reinoehl, editors on Wikipedia tried to add the execution-style killing to the page for the violent far-left group. Antifa supporters on the site argued Reinoehl was not a member of any Antifa organization and therefore the killing was not significant enough to mention in the article. One administrator, during a discussion of the incident, smeared Danielson as a “fascist” with another administrator agreeing with the remark.
We have never lived in a country where political violence has been normalized and encouraged. We do now.
A top DHS official determined that violence in Portland was “organized” by “Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired” ideology.
Candace Owens described hip hop artist Cardi B as a conservative who is not yet aware of her conservatism.
A man who apparently witnessed the shooting of two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputies in Compton on Saturday evening live-streamed his excitement on Instagram.
“If Biden wins. China wins. If Biden wins, the mob wins,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Minden, Nevada on Saturday night.
Brian Mast said police officers being denigrated today are of the same character as New York City cops who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson warned the chaos in some corners of the country was a push toward anarchy, which could have profound impacts on the country.
Rioters in Los Angeles, which authorities described as more of an “aggressive anarchist” group, taunted police with rants laced with expletives, with one demonstrator calling an officer a “stupid white bitch” who should “eat a giant smoking fucking dick that has herpes” and another telling a cop to “go home and beat your wife.”
Authorities arrested 11 demonstrators following another night of violent protest in Portland late Tuesday into Wednesday morning.
“Joe Biden and his party spent the entire summer cheering on the rioters rampaging through Democrat-led cities, falsely labeling them as peaceful protesters,” Trump said.
Portland police arrested dozens of rioters in the city over last weekend’s protests, which were dominated by Antifa activity and continued violence against police officers.
“Fuck the white people that built the system. You all did it,” said a Black Lives Matter agitator to a white elderly couple in Pittsburgh.
A Black Lives Matter protester harassed a black store manager at a McDonald’s in Pittsburgh, PA, after he and his group of masked leftists stormed the restaurant while shouting chants through bullhorns.
On Monday, former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker suggested strict penalties that migrating rioters and looters should face.
Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned Antifa violence on Monday, telling a local Pennsylvania NBC affiliate he abhorred violence “no matter who” the perpetrator was.
The son of actor John Malkovich was arrested at a violent riot in Portland, Oregon, late on Friday night, according to a news report.
A firebomb thrown by rioters at police in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday night set a “protester” on fire, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Police in Portland reported that Antifa supporter Michael Forest Reinoehl appeared to target Trump supporter Aaron “Jay” Danielson in last weekend’s shooting, lurking in the alcove of a parking garage before emerging to shoot his victim.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Friday refused to explain why she has condemned “armed white supremacists” but not Antifa after an explosion of violence in Portland, telling reporters that her primary goal centers around “eradicating racism.”
Facebook has blacklisted the conservative group “Patriot Prayer,” as well as the group’s leader, Joey Gibson. The move by Facebook arrives in the wake of a Patriot Prayer member being murdered in Portland by an Antifa rioter. Facebook told a media outlet the purge is part of its “ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform.”
Michael Reinoehl was shot and killed during an arrest attempt for the shooting death of Aaron Danielson; rioters mourned him in Portland.
The man being investigated in the shooting death of a member of the conservative group Patriot Prayer was killed Thursday night by police in Portland, according to a report from the New York Times.
Mitt Romney said Donald Trump’s recent tweets regarding leftist-driven political violence are intended to sow racial discord in America.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Attorney General William Barr stated that he has spoken to every single police chief in cities that have had “major violence” and those police chiefs have all “identified Antifa as the ramrod for
Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Wednesday that the victim of a shooting in Portland, Oregon, was killed because he and other pro-Trump demonstrators had been “inciting responses.”
The goal of the Black Lives Matter campaign and organization is to “destroy the black family,” said State Rep. Vernon Jones (D-GA).
A suspected member of Antifa –who was allegedly armed with a flamethrower — cried in the fetal position before his arrest during a Saturday evening protest in Green Bay, Wisconsin, according to law enforcement.