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Fifth Column
Portland is turned into a 'war zone' as stores are looted, anti-police protesters set a precinct on fire and cops use tear gas during violent night of demonstrations
2020-06-27
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Protesters attempt to create an 'autonomous zone' outside the Portland Police Bureau's North Precinct Thursday night

  • Cops used tear gas to disperse protesters in the early hours of Friday morning, declaring the gathering as 'an unlawful assembly'

  • The precinct was set on fire a short time later, and protesters retaliated by firing paintballs at officers; businesses were also looted and buildings were vandalized

  • Demonstrations calling for police reform and an end to systemic racism have been occurring Portland each night for the past month

  • At times, the protests have turned destructive; last Thursday a statue of George Washington was pulled down and destroyed by a group of activists
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  So John Carpenter is a prophet. With James Woods saying Soros is a Vampire, I'm waiting for the Thing to show up.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-06-27 22:49  

#16  ^ last I read, they were rioting in places were guns are banned. They know where they are safe.
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035   2020-06-27 19:57  

#15  It's not who has the guns, it's who's using them. Right now that's nobody but the usual skin on skin crowd.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-27 15:33  

#14   You know, I've been hearing about 300 million firearms in the hands of the American citizens for years.


And I've pushed back on the whole "Hurrdurr, we have all teh gunz" mentality on the Right.

Posted by: charger   2020-06-27 15:14  

#13  Here's the Portland Police last night being somewhat more kinetic.
Posted by: Matt   2020-06-27 13:47  

#12  Watch, investigate and learn until the election. Then give 'em a whiff of grapeshot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-06-27 13:10  

#11  ^On the positive side, all it takes is 3%.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-06-27 12:29  

#10  grom, so have I. There's a fantasy of "arming up and holing up" while the rest of the world goes to hell. It isn't feasible for very many of us. We can say "Don't dare riot by our homes," but the rioters don't need to take those kinds of risks if they control the public square and the commerce.

It is not at all obvious to me whether the frog will jump out of the pot or not.
Posted by: James   2020-06-27 12:19  

#9  ...oh, those white supremacists? (do I need to put a /sarc on that? Note well, these are the ones always talking about it, its all a display of Freudian Projection)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-27 12:14  

#8  The Portland police arrested four people, whose identities (but not addresses) are in this article. None are black. All of the businesses damaged are black-owned.
Posted by: Matt   2020-06-27 08:21  

#7  They burned the ROTC building at Kent State. Four people were shot in one event. No more college buildings burned that year. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It's now going to take more than four.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-27 07:23  

#6  Right now it's mostly left on left. When the right start to feel the effects, there will be action.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-06-27 06:57  

#5  I think that estimate is low. Time to put the neighborhood watch groups on steroids.

I know a couple in the Northwest in the same city as CHAZ. They said that if the raticals ventured into their neighborhood, the neighborhood was locked loaded ready for them in a highly coordinated manner.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119   2020-06-27 06:57  

#4  You know, I've been hearing about 300 million firearms in the hands of the American citizens for years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-06-27 06:32  

#3  ^That and then some. i.e. remains of young missing Ft Hood soldiers are finally starting to be found. Not by the corrupted institutions such as the FBI but by citizens organized into groups known as EquuSearch or something like that down in Texas and they gaining legendary status down there.

With the police effectively under seige by all of the above's brown shirts, being defunded and disbanded and the brown shirts beginning to wear tactical gear and arming up, we are now on the front line.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119   2020-06-27 06:21  

#2  /\ Are you referring to a 'Deep Dive' into CV-19, Russian-Trump hoax, Clinton 'home brew' Server, Obama passports, Epstein suicide, Seth Rich murder, the current political and military fiasco in Libya...... root causes and origins ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-06-27 06:04  

#1  OK. We are now in a civil war. We should start finding and posting detailed information about who exactly we are up against instead of just 'a group of activists'.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119   2020-06-27 05:57  

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