@suzettesmith reminds me that Jail Support is over in the direction the chuds headed. We sprint over
Confrontation on 2nd and Madison. Paintballs and mace deployed, something thrown from abovepic.twitter.com/JmNN0NPQ6n
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Not loving the trigger discipline by threatening asshole herepic.twitter.com/CM95zQB6XT
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Cops have entered the situation: appear to be going into the parking garage on 2nd and Madison where the chuds are raining projectiles down on the small counterprotest. Things are not always one-sided but today? All aggression coming from the chud side since I got here
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Cops entering the garage where some of the chuds are. I walk through a cloud of mace like an amateurpic.twitter.com/odRJT3ieTE
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The chuds are leaving. A group of counter-protesters decide to enter the garage and capture plates as the cars leave. Many have plates obscured They're yelling at the cars. People in the cars are armed. Everyone's tense and scared. Close quarters. This is not a good plan
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Cops order all counter-protesters to leave or be arrestedpic.twitter.com/5zhq6U1hYl
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The cops stand guard so that the far right can safely leavepic.twitter.com/JUrZE1rQ5r
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I did an entire undergrad thesis on the groups that come in to protest in Portland. "Far right" usually refers to people who believe things outside of traditional mainstream Republican thought as curated by establishment institutions, especially magazines like The National Review
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I cannot guarantee you that every person here was far right. Their patches, demeanor, and words indicated that they were Maybe I should have asked them. However, the moment I walked up I was threatened by a guy wielding an AR-15, so I'm not sure that would have gone well
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