As Portland girded Saturday for dueling far-right and anti-fascist rallies that some worry could turn violent, protesters of a different stripe were donning “poop emoji” costumes.
Portland police are serious, however, about preventing the sort of brawls that have grown out of past appearances of groups including the Proud Boys, which is deemed aby the Southern Poverty Law Center. The groups expected Saturday are similar to those that gathered two years ago in Charlottesville, Va., for a white nationalist rally that turned deadly.
Portland police weren’t sure which groups would show up Saturday, but they were deploying their entire force of almost 1,000, backed by FBI agents and an undisclosed number of officers from around the state. They began early Saturday morning closing some downtown streets and a bridge across the Willamette River. On Friday, workers had erected half a mile of concrete barricades for crowd control along the waterfront.
Biggs said that he aimed to take punches on Saturday, not throw them. “I want them to be violent, and I’m just going to sit there and take it, and everyone’s going to see who antifa really is,” he said.
You misspelled Antifa.
I could care less if both those gangs hurt each other. They are both utterly worthless pieces of humanity.
You felt the need to go with 'keep weird' here?
This is basically a media event with a bunch of people who want to fight. A media dream come true.
I’m gonna say that maybe framing a protest against hate groups as an attempt to “keep weird.” Not wanting white supremacist groups marching through our streets should be considered the norm here. Allowing hate to spread kills people.
Proud of...?
Knowing this will be a damn cage match- isn't accommodating this beyond what our founders wanted to accomplish w/'free-speech' & become borderline ridiculous Will this accommodation end only when some high-ranking public official's loved one is killed? Gutless Public Servants!!!
They aren't anti-fascists. They ARE fascists.
People reveal their intentions not by what they say they stand for but what they DO. If protestors become violent in response to speech they do not agree with, they have revealed themselves to be anti-Democracy demonstrators. And that's true for Antifa along with everybody else.
Настоящих фашистов никогда не видели, а объявляют, что они антифашисты. Просто клоуны. А вот гордые парни, это те парни за которыми всегда охотятся все девочки.
Antifa creates fascists...
Maybe report how the Antifa are dressed as LEO and are wearing MAGA hats.
Antifa are anarcho-communists. You can’t get any further left than that.
I have a question. You mention the presence of 'anti-fascist' counterprotesters. Are there actual pro-fascists? Could you name them?
Antifa is the problem. They are the DNC's Nazi youth
The only way to intimidate Fascists is by beating the hell out of them. Sorry, but history proves me right.
Still gonna happen. Better be arrests this time and arrest the Mayor if he tries to stand down police again
Nice bias y'all got there, LAT. 'Anti-fascists' do EXACTLY what they say they object to in other groups. Call it out, or ur hypocritical
'anti-fascist' - you mean the Domestic Terror Group ANTIFA
Stop calling the fascists anti-fascists.
President Trump said in a tweet Saturday that “Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the mayor will be able to properly do his job.”
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