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For most of the last decade, the city of Portland's national reputation was largely informed by the sketch TV series Portlandia. The show began airing in 2011, right at the start of the relevance of the word. Hipster and portrayed Portland as something of a stereotypically ***** liberal paradise, a place where people know the names of the chicken served in their restaurants. This image dogged the city until 2017 and the beginning of the Trump years. For millions of Americans, the first time they heard about Antifa or saw images of people in black bloc was from news footage of the street fights that grew increasingly endemic to Portland as the Trump years wore on. But anti fascism has a long history in the City of Roses, one that goes back further than the reign of Donald Trump. Rose City Antifa is the oldest organization in the United States with Antifa actually in its name. It formed in 2007 as part of a local effort to stop a music festival from the neo-Nazi Hammer Skin Nation. The festival was supposed to be coming to Portland, and RCA was successful in stopping it. The organization has continued up to the modern day. While its members do take place in street actions to counter fascist demonstrations, the bulk of their organization's work happens online, revealing and doxing white supremacists. And other fascists. The history of anti fascist organizing in Oregon goes back a lot further than even RCA though. As we discussed in episode One, Oregon is the only state that was founded to be whites only. The Klan had an overwhelming presence here in the 1920s. In the early 20s, virtually every member of the Portland Police Bureau was a member. The 1st President of the Portland Police Association was a former member of the German American Bund, an organization established by the Nazi Party, Oregon in particular. In the Pacific, Northwestern general has held a special place in the hearts of white supremacists for more than a century. In the 1970s and 80s, the Klan saw another surge and Nazi terrorist groups like the order carried out a string of successful attacks. White supremacist ideologues began floating the idea that the Pacific Northwest might be the perfect place for a white homeland. The idea was that since the PNW is already one of the whitest parts of the country, Nazis would have an easy time moving here and forcing non whites out through violence. This idea was most directly pushed by a man named Harold Covington with a now defunct Oregon based organization VOLKSFRONT. Covington coined the term NW imperative to describe the white supremacist drive to conquer the Pacific Northwest. As the Nazis flooded into Oregon, Idaho and Washington, anti racists started organizing to oppose them. The group anti racist action was formed in Portland in 1987 and is probably the most direct ancestor to Rose City Antifa and contemporary anti fascist. Groups for years the men and women of anti racist Action, or ARA, battled fascists in the streets. People were sometimes killed and often grievously wounded. Mike Crenshaw grew up in Illinois, but moved to Portland in 1992. He quickly got involved in anti racist organizing at one of the high points for fascist violence in Portland history. I went from not really seeing white folks at all unless they were sections of authority. To move into white communities where white people were definitely the majority, and not just in the authority but also everywhere. So there were there were experiences I had when we lived in smaller towns in Illinois where we, me and my brother, would be like the only black kids in certain schools, you know? Umm. And then Minnesota, often being in the in in public grocery store or being in downtown, you know, you're one of very few black folks, so being by the time I was a teenager. You know, I remember going down South, like to visit people in Alabama and Mississippi and being afraid that the Klan was going to get us, you know, being afraid that if we were out in the woods at night. That the clan was going to get us because the, the racial terror that was a reality for our people in America was something that we learned about, you know, and we had seen pictures of it in magazines. And we or we might even know some people directly or indirectly who've been killed, you know, as a result of racism or mind violence or or police brutality or something. So, you know, there's always a sense of fear associated with this existing here, you know, and that said being a teenager. In the streets of Minneapolis, I understood that the Klan. You know, since early childhood and being scared in the night and stuff like that, I understood you. The violent, racist, racist terror organ. So when I was in the ******** punk scene. You know, as a black kid, again, one of the only people in that social scene, in that subculture that was black. Umm. When I heard the Neo Nazis were coming around, I had a very visceral reaction to it. I was like, wait a minute, these people that hide behind masks? And and where she, you know, she could still there. I just see that have been lynching us for hundreds of years. These people feel comfortable being part of the community and being out front about it. So when I heard that I I had a very like. I had almost immediately I had a militant reaction. I was like, oh, hell no, that's not, that's not acceptable. And, you know, being a young man. Umm. And hanging out on the streets, having already dealt with physical violence and being ostracized and bullied and beat up. This is part of being growing up in Chicago. That's just normal, you know? Having to fight all the time and stuff I was. There was no way I was letting that go down. Mike had moved to town just a few years after probably the single most defining moment of the modern struggle against white supremacy in Portland, the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Sarah. Sarah was a 28 year old Ethiopian immigrant who lived in an apartment complex at the intersection of SE 31st Ave and Pine St his building was adjacent to the building where Nick Heiss, a member of the racist Skinhead group Eastside White Pride, also lived. On the night of November 13th, as Sir Raw returned from a party, Nick Heiss, Kenneth Mieske, and a crew of other racist skinheads rolled into the same parking lot. They were drunk and their blood was up from a night of distributing white supremacist propaganda, the propaganda miski and his friends. You put up all night belonged to a group called White Aryan resistance, or War, which was led by the recently deceased Nazi Tom Metzger. At this point, Tom lived in Southern California, but over the last few years his organization had increasingly propagandized to disaffected young white men in Oregon. The goal of Metzger's propaganda was to promote racial violence, and on the night of November 13th he succeeded. According to eyewitnesses, Meeske and two other Nazis pulled their vehicle up in front of Sarah's parked car. The Nazis girlfriends were also in the vehicle and they egged their partners on with Cristov. Let's kill him, let's kill him and that's exactly what they did. Miski hit mulugeta from behind with a baseball bat and kept beating him after he dropped while his fellow Nazis kicked the prone man with steel toed boots. Mulugeta Sarah died of his injuries. His killers were convicted of murder. They pled guilty and never face trial. Morris Dees, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued Tom Metzger in civil court and won a landmark. Judgment against him. The lawsuit established the legal precedent that someone like Metzger had what's called vicarious responsibility for Sarah's death because Metzger had good reason to know that his actions and the propaganda he put out would lead to violence. The murder of Mulugeta Sarah was a galvanizing moment for the Portland anti racist community. By the time Mike Crenshaw showed up, everyone knew what the stakes were. I had a group of friends that I was hanging with, you know, and we were all fine with the the anti racist. Element at that's who we wanted to be. And so when we heard these Neo Nazis had organized themselves with the leadership of the Klansmen into a gang called the White Knights, we decided that we were going to confront them. And we did it. We confronted them. We gave them an opportunity to their abuse. We said, are you guys white power? And they said, yeah. And we said, look, the next time we see you, we're gonna ask you again. 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You know, bringing swimming glasses or something with me, everything is just easier. And getting it done was easy too, you know. I went in, I had my consultation, they told me I was a good candidate and then I went back in couple of days later. But a Bing bada boom, you know, my eyes were perfect. So LASIK Plus is a leader in laser vision correction in the United States. They have over 20 years in the industry and more than two million treatments performed. If you want to start your LASIK plus journey, you can get $1000 off when treated in September. That's 500 per eye so visitmylasikoffer.com to schedule your free consultation now the house did, a couple of them actually detected, but before the ones that became getting about alarm protection period of violence. You know, a few years went by where we were little, fighting badly. Uh, and it was, it was, it was. Uh. It was heavy, man. In addition to anti racist action, the group skinheads Against Racial Prejudice also confronted Nazis in the streets of Portland. The podcast series it did happen here. Not to be confused with my own podcast series, it could happen here. Documents the story in more detail than we can afford to do here. But it's fair to say that the murder of Mulugeta Sarah informs the tactics of many anti fascists in Portland. To this day, the basic idea is that if you allow these people to organize and gather unopposed, they will commit murder. It's just a matter of time. In 2017, after a solid year of Patriot Prayer and Proud Boy gatherings and the attendant street fights they provoked, Jeremy Christian murdered two men on a Portland Max light rail train. This had an equally galvanizing effect on the city's anti racists. Things, of course, escalated further after Charlottesville, and the year 2018 in the city of Portland was one of the bloodiest years of fascist violence faced by any city in the United States. What's up guys? I'm Rashad Bilal and I am Troy Millings and we are the host of the earn your Leisure podcast where we break down business models and examine the latest trends in finance. We hold court and have exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in business, sport and entertainment from DJ Khaled to Mark Cuban, Rick Ross and Shaquille O'Neal. I mean, our alumni list is expansive. Listen in as our guests reveal their business models, hardships and triumphs in their respective fields. The knowledge is in death and the questions are always. Delivered from your standpoint, we want to know what you want to know. We talked to the legends of business, sports and entertainment about how they got their start and most importantly how they make their money earning. 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My colleague Garrison is going to take over here to give you an overview of how the street battles between fascists and anti fascists evolved. From 2017 on. As Trump ushered conservative nationalism into the mainstream, the vast mega movement brought St battles with their political enemies back into vogue. The most prominent of the far right groups that gathered in Portland was Patriot prayer, led by self-described St Preacher Joey Gibson. Patriot Prayer formed alongside. Numerous other far right and Neo fascist groups in 2016 to support the candidacy of Donald Trump throughout 2017 and 2018, Patriot Prayer put on dozens and dozens of rallies throughout the Pacific Northwest and especially Portland. While Patriot Prayer rarely numbered more than a few dozen members, they were capable in drawing in hundreds of people by allying with militias like their three Percenters and St gangs like the Proud Boys, and also explicit white nationalist groups like. In the Europa these St Demos regularly escalated into violent brawls, with police almost always taking the side of the far right and carrying out attacks on anti fascist demonstrators. Here's how someone with the youth Liberation Front explained their entry into activism and anti fascism reminder, we've redubbed the audio with the voice actor because these children are regularly threatened with murder. Yeah, I think for me it was definitely what was going on in my everyday life. That kind of pushed me to get more involved in politics. I was, I was ******* in school and then I heard about Jeremy Christian killing people on the Max I ride home and *******. Then that, like, really consumed me. And it was integral into me becoming. Like anti fascist and anti racist and not just kind of push my growth into anarchism then ecology. So I think things happening in my world around me was the first thing that definitely pushed me here. Jeremy Christian attended multiple Patriot prayer rallies before he stabbed 3 people and killed two in a racially motivated attack on Portland's Max Rail on May 27th, 2017. While Christian was eventually kicked out of a Patriot prayer rally for openly SIG Heiling the fact that Joe Gibson chose to hold a rally. Immediately after the murders suggests that many of their members may not have disavowed him as much as they claimed. The far right rallies that immediately followed Christians stabbing spree grew ever more violent. Gibson and Company used their newfound notoriety to hold events in cities throughout the West Coast, many of which ended in brawls. Through it all, Gibson maintained a close relationship with the Portland Police Bureau, specifically Lieutenant Jeff NAIA, the previous commander of PPB's Rapid Response Team. The very same team of, quote, riot police who would be responsible for suppressing. BLM rallies in 2020 in text messages from Lieutenant NAIA to Gibson found via public records requests. Lieutenant Naya was showcased giving Gibson information about Antifa during rallies and instructing Gibson and other Patriot Prayer members on how to avoid being arrested themselves. At one point near went so far as to tell Gibson that he and other officers were trying specifically not to arrest a violent right wing St brawler tiny toes who had outstanding arrest warrants. At the time. NIA told Gibson quote, just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention if he still has the warrant in our system. I don't run you guys so I don't personally know the officers could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason UN quote. The texts were from 2017 to 2018, but only released in February of 2019. Back in June of 2018, a rally that was originally planned to protest police violence turned into an anti fascist rally after Patriot Prayer announced they would show up to counter the original protest. After some brawling in the streets, the Portland Police Bureau arrested multiple anti fascists but failed to arrest anyone on the right. This appears to have been done under orders from Lieutenant NIA. In live stream footage officers are seen walking up to and telling Gibson quote, I just talked to Jeff NAIA and he asked me to tell you that he has probable cause to arrest a couple of the guys here. They've arrested the other side so it's not singling you guys out but it's time to go. If you guys can go home, there won't be any arrests. 2 months later at another opposing anti fascist patriot prayer slash Proud Boy Rally, Portland police shot munitions at anti fascists as they ordered them to disperse. One of these munitions, a flash bang grenade, was launched at the head of a self-described anti fascist, Aaron Anthony Cantu. The grenade split his skull open and embedded all the way through his bike helmet. Kentu was treated at the scene by several volunteer St medics and eventually was taken to the hospital. He suffered a traumatic brain injury with severe hemorrhaging. Had he not been wearing that bike helmet, he would have most certainly died. Fast forward to the start of 2020. For the first two months of violent protests in Portland, the far right was oddly absent. This was seen as strange by everyone on the ground for years. Far right demonstrators had shown up at every possible event to do violence, but as soon as tear gas and beatings started in May, those familiar fascist faces were nowhere to be seen. There were, however, constant rumors of, quote, proud boys circling the area, UN quote. And every once in a while a random local fascist would show up briefly. Also during the day some would wave blue lives matter flags in front of the JC, but for the most part, the right wing was mostly absent until August. August 16th started out like any normal day in Portland during the summer of 2020. By this point the Fed War was over and there were small gatherings of protesters throughout the city at a different location each night. On the 16th, people were back at the Justice Center during the afternoon. That were the standard speeches about police abolition, and as the afternoon turned into the evening, people started meandering around. At around 10:00 PM, a small group who had appointed themselves as quote, protest security attempted to aggressively escort out someone from the parks around the JC for unknown reasons. Quote Security led this person over to the nearby 711, where they were more or less randomly jumped by someone else. We should say a bit here about the 711 near the Justice Center. Early in the summer, it had earned the nickname Comrade 711 because the workers inside repeatedly pulled in protesters to rescue them from police, bull rushes and clouds of tear gas. Unfortunately, as the summer wore on, the 711 became a gathering place for less savory individuals who coalesced at the fringes of the movement. Street fights, some involving people tangentially involved in the protests and others involving drunk people who just wanted to fight, became an almost nightly occurrence. It was not uncommon to see puddles of blood. In the intersection leading to the 711. So it was not super surprising that the person quote security pulled out of the protest got jumped near the 711. After getting punched, chased and tackled. He ran away, but quote Security stayed out in front of the 711. A woman nearby approached them and asked what was going on. The quote Security then got aggressive with her. Other people near the 711, whose affiliation is unclear, began stealing her stuff, a backpack and skateboard. She then chased people around and tried to pepper spray the people stealing from her. Videos filmed at the time suggest that most of the people involved in this fracas were very inebriated. While all this was going on, another person arrived at the 711. He parked his truck outside and attempted to deescalate this tricky situation. A small crowd of around 20 people formed around the woman who had been attacked. Upon hearing this woman had quote maced people. The small group got aggressive, a few people through water bottles, someone who had been caught in the pepper spray. Grass Fire ran up and began punching this woman. Violence waxed and waned for several minutes and then the man with the truck repeatedly tried to deescalate the situation. Eventually he gave up and got into his truck again, which made a weird sound and lurched forward. After he turned it on, one of the self appointed security people then walked up to the driver and began to hit him through the open window. A couple people also began hitting the truck driver's girlfriend who had walked around the truck toward the small crowd while all this was going on a much larger. BLM demonstration was occurring a few blocks away. I was there at the time and I didn't even know any of this was going on, but some BLM protesters noticed the commotion and wandered over to the 711 and tried to stop people from attacking the truck driver and his girlfriend. The driver, still under attack from his window, revved his engine a few times and when the road was completely clear, he drove away. But she crashed about three blocks away from the 711. The self appointed security people chased after on foot and when they arrived at the crash site, one of the quote Security people pushed the truck driver onto the ground and stopped him from leaving or walking around. The truck driver explained that he wasn't trying to hurt anybody and this angered one of these so-called security people who then began punching and kicking the truck driver who was already on the ground. The two other self appointed security tried to restrain this one security guy. Who was repeatedly hitting the truck driver, but this agitated security dude was able to break free and brutally kicked the truck driver in the back of the head, briefly knocking him out. Volunteer St medics rushed to the scene from the protest a few blocks away to provide aid. This was a terrible, confusing and profoundly avoidable series of events. It had very little to do with Portland's BLM movement, save that a small number of self appointed security had been present at the protest before this roll started. This is not how it was presented in right wing Media, which portrayed the whole situation as a mass BLM gang assault on a white man for no other reason than his skin color. Much of the disinformation came courtesy of the far right Blogger and social media personality Andy No No had gained popularity among the right in the past two years by writing about the dangers of Muslim immigrants and fear mongering about Antifa. In the past, no had also selectively live streamed and filmed. Antifa and patriot prayer slash proud boy rallies. At one of these rallies he was assaulted with milkshakes and punched and shoved several times. This was a little after no had been present to selectively film a right wing assault at a local left wing hangout. Mint Mobile offers premium wireless starting at just 15 bucks a month and now for the plot twist. Nope, there isn't one. Mint Mobile just has premium wireless from 15 bucks a month. There's no trapping you into a two year contract. You're opening the bill to find all these nuts. Fees there's no luring you in with free subscriptions or streaming services that you'll forget to cancel and then be charged full price for. 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If you want to start your LASIK plus journey, you can get $1000 off when treated in September. That's 500 per eye so visitmylasikoffer.com to schedule your free consultation now that left a woman hospitalized with severe injuries? No had presented the scene to look like right wingers were defending themselves. But in actuality, they initiated this brutal. Attack and it was later found out that no was actually at the planning of this violent assault. In some footage secretly filmed, Noah is seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members discuss beating up left wing activists and so-called Communists after he was beat up. No raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and mostly stopped going to protests himself. Instead he either embedded footage from actual on the ground journalists or used stolen footage from various far right accounts that download, edit and repost. Footage from protests all the footage Andy Nosher is about this head kicking incident is heavily edited to make it unclear to his followers what is actually happening and to make nose twisted narrative more believable. No, we started posting about the truck driver assault by describing Portland as being quote occupied with BLM and Antifa rioters UN quote. Further saying that the man had simply crashed his car and that quote the mob had pulled him out of his vehicle and quote beat him senseless. With no there are always attempts to paint Portland as being full of quote Antifa mobs roaming the streets looking for anyone to beat up. With the police never actually showing up to stop these dangerous Antifa, which this is of course far from the truth. The police themselves quickly showed up to this very incident after the head kick and arrested the perpetrator as soon as they identified him. No continued to post other peoples clips while describing quote rioters and quote the mob attacking this man, but in the videos he shares it's almost entirely one person doing all of the violence and other members of this quote mob trying to physically restrain this main person. From hitting the truck driver in a clip of people trying to provide first aid and he describes quote rioters when no riot was actually declared that night standing over the truck drivers unconscious body after quote they beat him up no also writes quote they pour water on him as if people are just doing it for fun. Now water isn't actually poured on the person in the video, no captions that on, but in other videos you can see water being poured on his head to both clean out to the wounds and to attempt to wake him up. Andy then posts about the altercation that took place prior to the crash, saying that, quote, the BLM mob is beating a blonde woman referencing the truck driver's girlfriend. And just as before, the video actually shows two people from the crowd in front of the 711 trying to hit this older woman, as many of the people from the actual protesting crowd tried to protect her. No mix supposed to talking about the man that kicked the truck driver in the head saying quote, he's part of the marauding BLM security at the protests in Portland. These are the people protesters want to replace the police with. Now this is simply an unverified and false claim. No one in Portland has ever talked about replacing the police with the random dudes that elected themselves as quote security during protests. In fact, many people at protests speak out against these self-proclaimed security people both before and after this incident. And of course, no. Failed to mention that all this happened some distance away from the actual BLM protest that night. Like I said, I was there and I knew nothing about this until I got home and checked Twitter. 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Some of this was likely due to the terrifying police violence, but we suspect the larger factor was that over the weeks, Portland's BLM protesters had been hardened by that violence and grown skilled at standing up to it as a unit. Prior to the 16th, there had only been two truly noteworthy far right attacks on protests. One came courtesy of a former Navy SEAL who allegedly threw an improvised explosive device at a small crowd of activists after a demonstration. And on August 15th a group of right wing protesters, including many former Patriot Prayer members, held a flag wave outside the Justice Center. Numerous attendees assaulted and maced left wing counter protesters, 1 attendee, longtime far right rally, or Skyler Journigan fired his handgun into the crowd. He failed to hit anyone and was arrested a few days later, but the incident presaged rising. Tensions that would break out into mass violence just a week later online rage over the assault outside of the 711, and long, simmering anger over the BLM movement, which had seemed to capture the city's entire interest, inspired a coalition of different patriot groups to plan a rally for the 22nd. The attendees would turn out to be a seried melange of far right and outright fascist demonstrators. Members of the Proud Boys made-up the backbone of the force that showed up in front of the JCC on the 22nd, but there were also Neo Nazis and militiamen. Individuals who showed up were only bound by two things performative support for police who assaulted leftists, and a desire to do similar violence themselves. These men and women showed up ready to fight. They wore armor, carried paintball guns with frozen paintballs, cans of bear Mace, telescoping batons, knives, and firearms. The start of the demonstration was set for 12 noon. By the time Garrison and I arrived on scene, several dozen right wingers were already present. Standing across the street were less than half that number of anti fascists. The vibe was immediately tense, but not immediately violent. A PRO BLM bicycle protest drove through the street in between both groups. Followed by a crowd of several dozen bikers for Trump and men and trucks waving Trump and back the blue flags. While all this happened, more fascists and far right demonstrators continued to arrive. Their numbers hit 100, then 200 while the force is countering, them remained relatively small. At around 12:10 PM a massive street fight broke out. As best I could tell, it started when a local activist in a wheelchair pulled up in front of 1 Pro Trump biker people surrounded both of them. Both sides collided and then there were fistfights, Mace. And shopping? I can't even tell you who started it. David Willis, a local anti-Semitic protester, threatened me in a number of other protesters with an AR15 style paintball gun loaded with paintballs that he'd frozen in order to cause more damage, Willis had evidently spent quite some time listening to Portland protest live streams. He repeatedly threatened people using a tone that I think was a deliberate imitation of the police. There was a brief lull in the action after this initial explosion, but it did not last long. Violence commenced soon again. Right wing demonstrators pulled out Tasers and beat sticks. Several of them formed up into a shield wall organized by a neo-Nazi with a baton, who attempted to lead them in the battle. And around 12:20 PM the fighting waned again. Anti fascist reinforcement showed up and the two groups neared parity with two or 300 people on each side. There was a pause in the violence, but everyone in attendance knew it would not last. The police opted to stay away, although in the distance you could hear the Lrat asking everyone to please stay nice. Many different views gathered here today. Monitoring. For a little over 1/2 hour, relative peace rained more left wing demonstrators continued to show up, including Demetria Hester, who led the crowd in chants of Black Lives Matter. Right wingers responded with less cohesive chance of their own, like, hey hey ho ho, these violent rioters have got to go. Finally, a bit after 1:10 PM, a right wing demonstrator hooked a jug of OJ over his shield wall and into the anti fascist ranks. This was followed by improvised flashbangs and soon another general melee broke out. Things got incredibly ugly. Much of the violence centered around the BLM snack van, a common sight at local protests that did exactly what it sounds like. In this video you can hear a crowd of several dozen charge a single man standing in front of the van. They Mace him repeatedly and beat his. Arms and legs with batons. Brawls continued to break out at little after 1:20 PM as I rushed over to where a crowd of proud boys and other right wingers were assaulting a person on the ground, beating them with sticks. A proud boy swung a baton at my camera hand, breaking it in two places. Numerous other people had bones broken by violent fascists that day. Most of these individuals will never make their names public. They showed up in black bloc to confront dangerous Nazis and other extremists who intended to harm people. Violence occurred throughout the next hour with mass shield charges from the right wing. That we're repulsed only after significant injuries. The whole ugly event culminated around 2:00 PM when an anti fascist shieldwall finally squared off with a fascist shield wall. This was the first time that both groups had confronted each other in a mass, unified way, as opposed to the dozens of scattered brawls and, to be fair, conversations that had characterized the early part of the day. The right huffed fireworks and insults at their opponents. Both groups kept their distance, throwing things and opposing each other with lines of Shields. This stalemate lasted for a few minutes and was broken when a group of unarmed and unmasked by POC activists marched up to the right wing shield wall. Despite being unarmed, they were assaulted and masked by the crowd and repeatedly maced. Antifascists had to run up and pull them back into the line in order to protect them. The sheer volume of Mace deployed by the right wing worked against them though. Unlike their opponents who'd spent the summer getting tear gassed, the right wing had very few gas masks or respirators. They blinded themselves with their own poisoned. Then one anti fascist huffed a firework into the middle of the half blind shield wall and the entire line panicked and eventually broke and fled. They briefly ran to the nearby. IRS building begging the federal agents inside for help. When they were denied help, the right wing crowd retreated and gradually dissipated. August 22nd would mark the largest confrontation between right and left in Portland during the summer of 2020, but it was not the deadliest. That title would be earned the next weekend when a Trump cruise, which consisted of several 1000 pickup trucks and other vehicles flying Trump and thin blue line flags, rolled through the city of Portland and eventually through downtown Portland. There was violence at this event, but it was much less cohesive. Several groups of Trump supporters fired paintball guns and Mace into crowds from moving vehicles. The crowd this day, however, was less extreme than the smaller crowd on the 22nd. Some Trump supporters even went to the aid of people who were injured by other Trump supporters, and in general, the overall group was much less ready to fight, at least in an organized way. But the sight of thousands of pickup trucks, blaring flags and, of course, the assaults from a number of members of the Trump crews. Mint that anxiety was extremely high among Portland protesters, and of course contributing to this was the fact that the previous two weekends had involved heavy violence and gunfire. One individual had fired a handgun in warning during the protest on the 22nd, in addition to Skyler Jernigan shots into a crowd the week before. So understandably, everyone was very amped up, and while the train of mounted Trump supporters eventually passed through town without serious, life threatening violence events at the periphery of the caravan. Would shortly lead to the first fatality of Portland's 2020 protests. The conflict occurred AS2 right wing demonstrators, both of whom had been present at the 22nd, were walking home. Jay Danielson and Chandler Papas were regular patriot prayer marchers. Both carried handguns, batons, and Mace. The exact sequence of events is unclear, but as best we can tell from since released surveillance footage, Pappas and Danielson seem to have attacked a pro BLM and anti fascist demonstrator named Michael Reinoehl. Reinhold responded to their Mace with gunfire, killing Danielson and nearly hitting Papas. Reynaud ran and fled the scene immediately, disappearing into the city for several days, his identity was unknown, and details around the shooting were completely obscured. This did not stop the right wing media and President Trump himself from turning Danielson into a martyr. Calls to brand Antifa, a terrorist group, reached a fever pitch when Reynold's identity was revealed. Much was made of the fact that he identified with both. Elimin Antifa, the right wing disinformation ecosystem took this as evidence that Antifa and BLM were both part of some shadowy organized plot to overthrow the United States government. The reality is that anti fascist activism and the goals of Black Lives Matter have always been deeply tied, as Max Smith attests. Does that mean I'm part of an Antifa group? No. Am I an anti fascist? Absolutely. Because how how can you not be right that the only that only makes sense? Umm, and so I think it's it's. It's again one of those things that gets like thrown into the media as a buzzword that doesn't actually mean anything, and that's only doubled down on by like our president and people like that who just continue to use words they don't understand because they think they're explosive when in reality. In reality, the Antifa guys, you know, the Antifa, the Rose City, Antifa whatever are really like a bunch of like guys that I do like research and stuff for the most part and get us information. I've long used contacts to get like information like who is this gang? Who you know, what is this tattoo on this white supremacist I've been seeing over here? That's really what I've used them for. You know, the people that I know that identify as Antifa. But other than that, I mean it's it's it's just an ideology. So it's it's it's. Weird to see people ask questions like, are you Antifa? And I'm like, what does that mean or are is, is? BLM has been taken over by Antifa and BLM even is one of those statements that, again, kind of like Antifa. It doesn't actually mean anything. You know, there's no Black Lives Matter a chapter here like, like National A chapter here that I'm aware of. And people always say, you know, like this stuff takes away from the spirit of a black lives matter, but then they also turn around and say black. As matter as a Marxist organization run by, you know the. BTQ so and say that it's itself is you know, is a swoop. So there seems like there's like a lot of things and people have their ideas about these factions or groups or whatever, but in reality these people aren't a part of any of that. We, I mean most of us are not a part of any actual group of anything. We're just out here, you know, fighting for our rights and and for the rights of our. Of our friends and neighbors. So all those labels are are kind of funny like you know we're not in a gang. We aren't the proud boys of the patriot prayers. They all have their names and clicks and groups and and and and and and nonprofits and all that. That's not really our thing. So I think that they have a hard time. I think that people have a hard time processing that in general. That's not the way that we're a trained to think. We're kind of trained to think in the in the. In the way of of clicks and groups and brands, you know it's all about branding and how are you branded and and do you wear matching outfits and that kind of stuff. So people just see Black bloc and they see a brand and then they hear Antifa and they think of a brand and then they just put it all together and they have this idea in their heads, but it's it's just not based in reality. KREM Brule also had some complicated thoughts on the intersection of anti fascism and the Black Lives Matter movement. Complicated and the source of a lot of attention, uh? For sure in the city right now and kind of throughout this entire thing. Umm, because you do have. You know, marches and actions that claimed to be, you know, Black Lives Matter when a lot of the people there. Are there for like quote UN quote anti fascists or purely anti cop reasons? Umm and it's hard because you need bodies. But I don't know because that's like, that's some like first 100 days thinking. I feel like right now I feel like there's a lot we've learned about that and about, I think direct action in general and protests in general, I think it actually is extremely important now. It's always really important, but now I think it's really important and a lot of people are more aware that the direct action or the protest or like a mutual aid. Reach out. I don't know uh has a defined like goal or defined like this is you know anti fascist marks this is Black Lives Matter DA. This is you know anti cop sweep or whatever. I don't think it has to be you know that always spelled out but it needs to be clear and it needs to be you know leadership and position that knows that role and. You know, like I said earlier, kind of that like thinking we need numbers, like personally. And it kind of is because. As you kind of learned figure DNA and bigger actions, when she gets out of the haywire, it's it can be chaotic because there are so many people there who maybe they're there for the right reasons, but they're not on the same page and when everyone's not on the same page and it's really hard for actually effective and it's really easy for people to get into situations. So like, yeah, smaller, more concise, more focused. Now just talking about strategy. Umm, but yeah, the focus is important. And. You know all of these, all these things. I guess in terms of the relationship between I guess those two things, my perspective is black liberation. Liberation for everybody and. I guess from my perspective the goal. I don't know if it's goals, but the. The the through line for me personally is Black Lives Matter at least. Like? From uh. Looking at it linearly standpoint, if if we really are considering Black Lives Matter, if we just go point in our country where black lives are mattering, then there will probably be less fascists or we will have done some, you know what I mean? If the entire country is like, yeah, Black Lives matter, that's a country where at least Baptist aren't in government and that the country where at least. There's probably, if not abolished, less police presence or police status that black people and police sent their respect. Black people clearly the lead their stack people, they respect everybody. So for me, through line and like. That's also an evidenced by that's what started all this is Black Lives Matter and I don't know, I'm not happy there's like. Subfactions or there's kind of these multiple ideas existing within a movement above the goals, but that is the reality of the world we live in. And. Get only work together because we do all have common goals. Umm, yeah. The actual nuance in the discussion was lost in the national reaction to Jay Danielson's death. As soon as Michael Reinel admitted to the shooting, claiming self-defense and a vice video, a manhunt ensued to bring him down. the US Marshals caught him in early September and Michael was gunned down near where he'd been hiding in Washington. Initial reports spoke of an exchange of gunfire, but later evidence revealed that Michael had not fired, while officers shot dozens of times at the vehicle he was in in mid-october at a campaign rally ahead of the November election. President Trump bragged that he had used the US Marshals as more or less a death squad, saying we sent in. the US Marshals took 15 minutes. It was over. 15 minutes it was over. They knew who he was. They didn't want to arrest him in 15 minutes that ended any while but, and they called themselves peaceful protest. Right wing rallies and violence would continue throughout the remainder of the year. It was, however, notably lower key than it had been before. Several 100 proud boys rallied on the weekend of September 26th, but both sides were kept largely apart. Less than a week before the event, Eugene Antifa had released a set of leaked chat logs from a group called Patriot Coalition who would help plan events on August 22nd. As well, the chats, which I reported on alongside Jason Wilson for Bellingcat and the UK Guardian, included threats to shoot members of the ACLU and legal observers, as well as embryonic plans to kidnap the Governor of Oregon over the state's COVID-19 lockdown. The governor convened a press conference after these reports and threatened to use the state's long dormant anti paramilitary laws if there was mass violence by the proud boys. On September 26th police kept anti fascists and fascists apart. A number of proud boys did do violence, assaulting several members of the press who came to cover their event, but no mass thousand person Street fight ensued this time. In fact after the 26th far right St activity seemed to ebb for several months. There were small back the blue rallies which often involved right wingers, Mason counter protesters and threatening them with firearms and of course involved anti fascists doing things like breaking the windows on their cars, but mass. Violence failed to ensue, it seemed for a while, as if the far right had spent itself in August of 2020. This would turn out to be untrue, of course. We're recording this episode just two weeks after the capital of the United States was sieged and occupied briefly by hundreds of far right fascists and white nationalist demonstrators on January 6th, 2021. This event was signposted by an attack by far right insurrectionists on the city of Salem, OR's Capital, just a few days earlier. The whole chain of events further reinforced Oregon's reputation as something of a national bellwether for far right violence with the anti fascists. The Rose City, endured in the late summer of 2020, came home to the capital of the entire country just a few months later. Word the grand pops it couldn't fathom the Obama system. I don't hate America just to me. And she keeps her promises 20 teens looking like the 60s. 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