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Speaker 1: city of Portland's national reputation was largely informed by the
Speaker 1: sketch TV series Portlandia. The show began airing in two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven, right at the start of the relevance of
Speaker 1: the word hipster, and portrayed Portland is something of a
Speaker 1: stereotypically loony liberal paradise, a place where people know the
Speaker 1: names of the chickens served in their restaurants. This image
Speaker 1: dogged the city until two thousand seventeen, in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the Trump years. For millions of Americans, the first
Speaker 1: time they heard about Antifa or saw images of people
Speaker 1: in black block was from news footage of the street
Speaker 1: fights that grew increasingly endemic to Portland as the Trump
Speaker 1: years wore on. But anti fascism has a long history
Speaker 1: in the City of Roses, one that goes back further
Speaker 1: than the reign of Donald Trump. Rose City Antifa is
Speaker 1: the oldest organization in the United States with Antifa actually
Speaker 1: in its name. It formed in two thousand seven as
Speaker 1: part of a local effort to stop a music festival
Speaker 1: from the neo Nazi Hammer Skin Nation. The festival is
Speaker 1: supposed to be coming to Portland, and our c A
Speaker 1: was successful in stopping it. The organization has continued up
Speaker 1: to the modern day. While its members do take place
Speaker 1: in street actions to counter fascist demonstrations, the bulk of
Speaker 1: their organization's work happens online, revealing and doxing white supremacists
Speaker 1: and other fascists. The history of ANTIFA just organizing an
Speaker 1: Oregon goes back a lot further than even our c A, though,
Speaker 1: as we discussed an episode one, Oregon is the only
Speaker 1: state that was founded to be whites only. The clan
Speaker 1: had an overwhelming presence here in the nineteen twenties. In
Speaker 1: the early twenties, virtually every member of the Portland Police
Speaker 1: Bureau was a member. The first president of the Portland
Speaker 1: Police Association was a former member of the German American Bund,
Speaker 1: an organization established by the Nazi Party. Oregon in particular,
Speaker 1: and the Pacific Northwestern General has held a special place
Speaker 1: in the hearts of white supremacists for more than a century.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen seventies and eighties, the clan saw another
Speaker 1: surge and Nazi terrorist groups like the Order carried out
Speaker 1: a string of successful attacks. White supremacist ideologus began floating
Speaker 1: the idea that the Pacific Northwest might be the perfect
Speaker 1: place for a white homeland. The idea was that since
Speaker 1: the PMW was already one of the whitest parts of
Speaker 1: the country, Nazis would have an easy time moving here
Speaker 1: and forcing non whites out through violence. This idea was
Speaker 1: most directly pushed by a man named Harold Covington, with
Speaker 1: a now defunct Oregon based organization, Volksfront. Covington coined the
Speaker 1: term Northwest imperative to describe the white supremacist drive to
Speaker 1: conquer the Pacific Northwest. As the Nazis flooded into Oregon, Idaho,
Speaker 1: and Washington, anti racists started organizing to oppose them. The
Speaker 1: group Anti Racist Action was formed in Portland in ninety
Speaker 1: seven and is probably the most direct ancestor to Rose
Speaker 1: City Antifa and contemporary anti fascist groups. For years, the
Speaker 1: men and women of Anti Racist Action or a r
Speaker 1: A battled fascists in the streets. People were sometimes killed
Speaker 1: and often grievously wounded. Mike Crenshaw grew up in Illinois,
Speaker 1: but moved to Portland in nine he quickly got involved
Speaker 1: in anti racist organizing at one of the high points
Speaker 1: her fascist violence in Portland history, however, from not really
Speaker 1: seeing white folks at all unless they were of authority
Speaker 1: to move into white communities where white people were definitely
Speaker 1: the majority. Um and not just in was authority, but
Speaker 1: also everywhere. So there were there were experiences I had
Speaker 1: where we lived in smaller towns in Illinois where we
Speaker 1: me and my brother would be like the only black
Speaker 1: kids in certain schools, you know, UM, and then Minnesota
Speaker 1: often being in a in public ghost restore are being
Speaker 1: in downtown, you know, you're one of very two black folks.
Speaker 1: So being by the time I was a teenager, you know,
Speaker 1: I remember going down tough like to visit people in
Speaker 1: Alabama and Mississippi and being afraid that that the clan
Speaker 1: was gonna get us, you know, being afraid that if
Speaker 1: we were out in the woods at night, that the
Speaker 1: clan was gonna get us, because that the racial terror
Speaker 1: that was a reality for our people in America was
Speaker 1: something that we learned about, you know, and we had
Speaker 1: seen pictures of it in magazines, UM, and we or
Speaker 1: we might have even known some people directly are indirectly
Speaker 1: who've been killed, you know, as a result of racism,
Speaker 1: of mom violence or or police mutality or something. So
Speaker 1: you know, there's always a sense of fear associated with
Speaker 1: this existing here, you know. And that said, being a
Speaker 1: teenager on the streets in Minneapolis, I understood that the clan,
Speaker 1: you know, since early childhood and being scared in the
Speaker 1: night and stuff like that, I understood to them a violent, racist,
Speaker 1: racist terror organs. So when I was in the hardcore
Speaker 1: punk scene, you know, as a black kid again one
Speaker 1: of the only people in that social scene, in that
Speaker 1: subculture that was black. UM, when I heard that neo
Speaker 1: Nazis were coming around, I had a very visceral reaction
Speaker 1: to it. I was like, wait a minute, these people
Speaker 1: that hide behind mask and and where she you know,
Speaker 1: to consider there, I just see that have been lynching
Speaker 1: us for hundreds of years. These people feel comfortable being
Speaker 1: part of the community and being out front about it.
Speaker 1: So when I heard that, I had a very like
Speaker 1: I had almost immediately, I had a militant reaction. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, hell no, that's not that's not acceptable.
Speaker 1: And you know, being a young man um and hanging
Speaker 1: out on the streets, having already dealt with physical violence
Speaker 1: and being ostracized and bullied and beat up. This is
Speaker 1: part of being growing up in Chicago. That's the pharm,
Speaker 1: you know, um having the fight all the time and
Speaker 1: stuff I was. There was no way I was letting
Speaker 1: that go down. Mike had moved to town just a
Speaker 1: few years after probably the single most defining moment of
Speaker 1: the modern struggle against white supremacy in Portland, the murder
Speaker 1: of mud Ghetta Sara. Sara was a twenty eight year
Speaker 1: old Ethiopian immigrant who lived in an apartment complex at
Speaker 1: the intersection of Southeast thirty first Avenue in Pine Street.
Speaker 1: His building was adjacent to the building where Nick Heis,
Speaker 1: a member of the racist skinhead group east Side White Pride,
Speaker 1: also lived. On the night of November, Sara returned from
Speaker 1: a party. Nick Heis, Kenneth Miski, and a crew of
Speaker 1: other racist skinheads rolled into the same parking lot. They
Speaker 1: were drunk and their blood was up from a night
Speaker 1: of distributing white supremacist propaganda. The propaganda Miski and his
Speaker 1: friends had put up all night belonged to a group
Speaker 1: called White Aryan Resistance or War which was led by
Speaker 1: the recently deceased Nazi Tom Metzker. At this point, Tom
Speaker 1: lived in southern California, but over the last few years
Speaker 1: his organization had increasingly propaganda's two disaffected young white men
Speaker 1: in Oregon. The goal of Metzger's propaganda was to promote
Speaker 1: racial violence, and on the night of November he succeeded.
Speaker 1: According to eyewitnesses, Miski and two other Nazis pulled their
Speaker 1: vehicle up in front of Sara's parked car. The nazis
Speaker 1: girlfriends were also in the vehicle, and they egged their
Speaker 1: partners on with cries of let's kill him, let's kill him,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they did. Miski hit Mulugeta from
Speaker 1: behind with a baseball bat and kept beating him after
Speaker 1: he dropped, while his fellow Nazis kicked the prone man
Speaker 1: with steel toed boots. Muta Sara died of his injuries.
Speaker 1: His killers were convicted of murder. They pled guilty and
Speaker 1: never faced trial. More As D's, head of the Southern
Speaker 1: Poverty Law Center, sued Tom Metzger in civil court and
Speaker 1: won a landmark judgment against him. The lawsuit established the
Speaker 1: legal precedent that someone like Metzker had what's called vicarious
Speaker 1: responsibility for Sara's death because Metzker had good reason to
Speaker 1: know that his actions and the propaganda he put out
Speaker 1: would lead to violence. The murder of Mula Getta Sara
Speaker 1: was a galvanizing moment for the Portland anti racist community.
Speaker 1: By the time Mike Crenshaw showed up, everyone knew what
Speaker 1: the stakes were. I had a group of friends that
Speaker 1: I was hanging with, you know, and we were all
Speaker 1: fine with the anti racist skinheads element, and that's what
Speaker 1: we wanted to be. And so when we heard these
Speaker 1: Leo Nazis had organized themselves with the leaderships on the
Speaker 1: Klansman into a gang called the White Knights, we decided
Speaker 1: that we were going to confront them, and we did it.
Speaker 1: We confronted them. We gave them an opportunity to their abuse.
Speaker 1: We said, are you guys white power? And they said yeah,
Speaker 1: And we said, look, the next time we see you,
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask you again, and if you are still
Speaker 1: white powers, then we're gonna suck you up. You know.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. Some of them change, some of them,
Speaker 1: some of them denounced it. A couple of them actually detected.
Speaker 1: But before the one, if that, I became getting of
Speaker 1: a long protected period of violence. You know, a few
Speaker 1: years went by where we were little fighting baily um
Speaker 1: and it was it was, it was, it was heavy man.
Speaker 1: In addition to anti racist action, the groups Skinheads Against
Speaker 1: Racial Prejudice also confronted Nazis in the streets of Portland.
Speaker 1: The podcast series It Did Happen Here, not to be
Speaker 1: confused with my own podcast series It Could Happen Here,
Speaker 1: documents the story in more detailed than we can afford
Speaker 1: to do here. But it's fair to say that the
Speaker 1: murder of mo lookd at us a raw informs the
Speaker 1: tactics of many anti fascists in Portland to this day.
Speaker 1: The basic idea is that if you allow these people
Speaker 1: to organize and gather unopposed, they will commit murder. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of time. In two seventeen, after a
Speaker 1: solid year of patriot prayer and proud boy gatherings in
Speaker 1: the attendant street fights they provoked, Jeremy Christian murdered two
Speaker 1: men on a Portland max light rail train. This had
Speaker 1: an equally galvanizing effect on the city's anti racists. Things,
Speaker 1: of course, escalated further after Charlottesville, and the year two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen in the city of Portland was one of
Speaker 1: the bloodiest years of fascist violence faced by any city
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Speaker 1: going to take over here to give you an overview
Speaker 1: of how the street battles between fascists and anti fascists
Speaker 1: evolved from two thousand seventeen on. As Trump ushered conservative
Speaker 1: nationalism into the mainstream, the vast mega movement brought street
Speaker 1: battles with their political enemies back into vogue. The most
Speaker 1: prominent of the far right groups that gathered in Portland
Speaker 1: was Patriot Prayer, led by self described street preacher Joey Gibson.
Speaker 1: Petriet Prayer formed alongside numerous other far right and neo
Speaker 1: fascist groups in to support the candidacy of Donald Trump throughout.
Speaker 1: Patriot Prayer put on dozens and dozens of rallies throughout
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest and especially Portland. While Patriot Prayer rarely
Speaker 1: numbered more than a few dozen members, they were capable
Speaker 1: in drawing in hundreds of people by allying with militias
Speaker 1: like the Three per Centers and street gains like the
Speaker 1: Proud Boys, and also explicit white nationalist groups like Identity Europa.
Speaker 1: These street demos regularly escalated into violent brawls, with police
Speaker 1: almost always taking the side of the far right and
Speaker 1: carrying out attacks on anti fascist demonstrators. Here's I was
Speaker 1: someone with the Youth Liberation Front explained their entry into
Speaker 1: activism and anti fascism. Reminder, we've redubbed the audio with
Speaker 1: a voice actor because these children are regularly threatened with murder. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think for me, it was definitely what was going
Speaker 1: on in my everyday life that kind of pushed me
Speaker 1: to get more involved in politics. I was, I was
Speaker 1: working in school and then I heard about Jeremy Christian
Speaker 1: killing people on the max I ride home and fucking
Speaker 1: then not like really consumed me, and it was integral
Speaker 1: and to me, becoming like anti fascist and any racist
Speaker 1: and not just kind of pushed my growth into anarchism
Speaker 1: and ecology. So I think things happening in my world
Speaker 1: around me was the first thing that definitely pushed me here.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Christian attended multiple Patriot Prayer rallies before he stabbed
Speaker 1: three people and killed two in a racially motivated attack
Speaker 1: on Portland's Max Rail on maven. While Christian was eventually
Speaker 1: kicked out of a Patriot Prayer rally for openly sig hiling,
Speaker 1: the fact that Joey Gibson chose to hold a rally
Speaker 1: immediately after the murders suggests that many of their members
Speaker 1: may not have disavowed him as much as they claimed.
Speaker 1: The far right rallies that immediately followed Christian's stabbing spree
Speaker 1: grew ever more violent. Gibson and company used their new
Speaker 1: found notoriety to hold events in cities throughout the West Coast,
Speaker 1: many of which ended in brawls. Through it all, Gibson
Speaker 1: maintained a close relationship with the Portland Police EUO, specifically
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Jeff Naia, the previous commander of ppb's Rapid Response Team.
Speaker 1: The very same team of quote riot police who would
Speaker 1: be responsible for suppressing BLM rallies. In in text messages
Speaker 1: from Lieutenant Naia to Gibson found via public records requests,
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Naia was showcased giving Gibson information about Antifa during
Speaker 1: rallies and instructing Gibson and other Patriot Prayer members on
Speaker 1: how to avoid being arrested themselves. At one point, Naia
Speaker 1: went so far as to tell Gibson that he and
Speaker 1: other officers were trying specifically not to arrest a violent
Speaker 1: right wing straight brawler Tiny Toast, who had outstanding arrest
Speaker 1: warrants at the time. Naia told Gibson, quote, just make
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention
Speaker 1: if he still has the warrant in our system. I
Speaker 1: don't run, you guys, so I don't personally know the
Speaker 1: officers could arrest him. I don't see a need to
Speaker 1: arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason in unquote.
Speaker 1: The texts were from seen but only released in February
Speaker 1: of nine. Back in June, a rally that was originally
Speaker 1: planned to protest police violence turned into an anti fascist
Speaker 1: rally after Patriot Prayer announced they would show up to
Speaker 1: counter the original protest. After some brawling in the streets,
Speaker 1: the Portland Police Bureau arrested multiple anti fascists, but failed
Speaker 1: to arrest anyone on the right. This appears to have
Speaker 1: been done under orders from Lieutenant Naia. In live stream footage,
Speaker 1: officers are seen walking up to and telling Gibson quote,
Speaker 1: I just talked to Jeff Naia and he asked me
Speaker 1: to tell you that he has probably cause to arrest
Speaker 1: a couple of the guys here. They've arrested the other side,
Speaker 1: so it's not singling you guys out, but it's time
Speaker 1: to go. If you guys can go home, there won't
Speaker 1: be any arrests. Two months later, at another opposing anti
Speaker 1: fascist patriot prayer slash Proud Boy rally, Portland police munitions
Speaker 1: at anti fascists. As they ordered them to disperse. One
Speaker 1: of these munitions, a flash bang grenade was launched at
Speaker 1: the head of a self described anti fascist, Aaron Anthony
Speaker 1: can Too. The grenade split his skull open and embedded
Speaker 1: all the way through his bike helmet. Kentu was treated
Speaker 1: at the scene by several volunteer street medics and eventually
Speaker 1: was taken to the hospital, he suffered a traumatic brain
Speaker 1: injury with severe hemorrhaging. Had he not been wearing that
Speaker 1: bike helmet, he would have most certainly died. Fast forward
Speaker 1: to the start. For the first two months of BLM
Speaker 1: protests in Portland, the far right was oddly absent. This
Speaker 1: was seen as strange by everyone on the ground. For years,
Speaker 1: far right demonstrators had shown up at every possible event
Speaker 1: to do violence, but as soon as tear gas and
Speaker 1: beatings started in May, those familiar fascist faces were nowhere
Speaker 1: to be seen. There were, however, constant rumors of Quote
Speaker 1: Proud boys circling the area on Quote, and every once
Speaker 1: in a while a random local fascist would show up briefly.
Speaker 1: Also during the day, some would wave Blue Lives Matter
Speaker 1: flags in front of the j C, but for the
Speaker 1: most part, the right wing was mostly absent until August.
Speaker 1: August sixteenth start out like any normal day in Portland
Speaker 1: during the summer of By this point, the fed war
Speaker 1: was over and there were small gatherings and protesters throughout
Speaker 1: the city at a different location each night. On the sixteenth,
Speaker 1: people were back at the Justice Center. During the afternoon
Speaker 1: there were the standard speeches about police abolition and as
Speaker 1: the afternoon turned into the evening, people started meandering around.
Speaker 1: At around ten PM, a small group who had appointed
Speaker 1: themselves as quote protest security attempted to aggressively escort out
Speaker 1: someone from the parks around the j C. For unknown reasons,
Speaker 1: Quote Security led this person over to the nearby seven eleven,
Speaker 1: where they were more or less randomly jumped by someone else.
Speaker 1: We should say a bit here about the seven eleven
Speaker 1: near the Justice Center. Early in the summer, it had
Speaker 1: earned the nickname Comrade seven eleven because the workers inside
Speaker 1: repeatedly pulled in protesters to rescue them from police bull
Speaker 1: rushes and clouds of tear gas. Unfortunately, as the summer
Speaker 1: wore on, the seven eleven became a gathering place for
Speaker 1: less savory individuals who coalesced at the fringes of the movement.
Speaker 1: Street fights, some involving people tangentially involved in the protests
Speaker 1: and others involving drunk people who just wanted to fight,
Speaker 1: became an almost nightly occurrence. It was not uncommon to
Speaker 1: see puddles of blood in the intersection leading to the
Speaker 1: seven eleven, so it was not super surprising that the
Speaker 1: person quote Security pulled out of the protest got jumped
Speaker 1: near the seven eleven. After getting punched, chased, and tackled,
Speaker 1: he ran away, but Quote Security stayed out in front
Speaker 1: of the seven eleven. A woman nearby approached them and
Speaker 1: asked what was going on. The Quote Security then got
Speaker 1: aggressive with her other people near the seven eleven whose
Speaker 1: affiliation is unclear, again stealing her stuff a backpack and skateboard.
Speaker 1: She then chased people around and tried to pepper spray
Speaker 1: the people stealing from her. Videos filmed at the time
Speaker 1: suggests that most of the people involved in this fracas
Speaker 1: were very inebriated. While all this was going on, another
Speaker 1: person arrived at the seven eleven. He parked his truck
Speaker 1: outside and attempted to de escalate this tricky situation. A
Speaker 1: small crowd of around twenty people formed around the woman
Speaker 1: who had been attacked. Upon hearing this woman had Quote
Speaker 1: mazed people, the small group got aggressive, a few people
Speaker 1: through water bottles. Someone who had been caught in the
Speaker 1: pepper spray crossfire ran up and began punching this woman.
Speaker 1: Violence waxed and waned for several minutes, and then the
Speaker 1: man with the truck repeatedly tried to deescalate the situation. Eventually,
Speaker 1: he gave up and got into his truck again, which
Speaker 1: made a weird sound and lurched forward after he turned
Speaker 1: it on. One of the self appointed security people then
Speaker 1: walked up to the driver and began to hit him
Speaker 1: through the open window. A couple of people also began
Speaker 1: hitting the truck driver his girlfriend, who had walked around
Speaker 1: the truck toward the small crowd. While all this was
Speaker 1: going on, a much larger BLM demonstration was occurring a
Speaker 1: few blocks away. I was there at the time, and
Speaker 1: I didn't even know any of this was going on,
Speaker 1: but some BLM protesters noticed the commotion and wandered over
Speaker 1: to the seven eleven and tried to stop people from
Speaker 1: attacking the truck driver and his girlfriend. The driver, still
Speaker 1: under attack from his window, repped his engine a few times,
Speaker 1: and when the road was completely clear, he drove away,
Speaker 1: but he crashed about three blocks away from the seven eleven.
Speaker 1: The self appointed security people chased after on foot, and
Speaker 1: when they arrived at the crash site, one of the
Speaker 1: quote security people pushed the truck driver onto the ground
Speaker 1: and stopped him from leaving or walking around. The truck
Speaker 1: driver explained that he wasn't trying to hurt anybody, and
Speaker 1: this angered one of these so called security people, who
Speaker 1: then began punching and kicking the truck driver, who was
Speaker 1: already on the ground. The two other self appointed security
Speaker 1: tried to restrain this one security guy who was repeatedly
Speaker 1: hitting the truck driver, but this agitated security dude was
Speaker 1: able to break free and brutally kicked the truck driver
Speaker 1: in the back of the head, briefly knocking him out.
Speaker 1: Volunteer street medics rushed the scene from the protest a
Speaker 1: few blocks away to provide aid. This was a terrible, confusing,
Speaker 1: and profoundly avoidable series of events. It had very little
Speaker 1: to do with Portland's b LM movement, save that a
Speaker 1: small number of self appointed security had been present at
Speaker 1: the protest before this brawl started. This is not how
Speaker 1: it was presented in right wing media, which portrayed the
Speaker 1: whole situation as a mass BLM gang assault on a
Speaker 1: white man for no other reason than his skin color.
Speaker 1: Much of the disinformation came courtesy of the far right
Speaker 1: blogger and social media personality Andy no. No had gained
Speaker 1: popularity among the right in the past few years by
Speaker 1: writing about the dangers of Muslim immigrants and fear mongering
Speaker 1: about Antifa. In the past, No had also selectively live
Speaker 1: streamed and film Antifa and Patriot Prayer slash prowdboy rallies.
Speaker 1: At one of these rallies, he was assaulted with milkshakes
Speaker 1: and punched and shoved several times. This was a little
Speaker 1: after No had been present to selectively film a right
Speaker 1: wing assault at a local left wing hangout that left
Speaker 1: a woman hospitalized with severe injuries. No had presented the
Speaker 1: scene to look like right wingers were defending themselves, but
Speaker 1: in actuality, they initiated this brutal attack, and it was
Speaker 1: later found out that No was actually at the planning
Speaker 1: of this violent assault. In some footage secretly filmed, No
Speaker 1: was seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members discussed beating up
Speaker 1: left wing activists and so called communists. After he was
Speaker 1: beat up, No raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and
Speaker 1: mostly stopped going to protests himself. Instead, he either embedded
Speaker 1: footage from actual on the ground journalists or used stolen
Speaker 1: footage from various far right accounts that download, edit, and
Speaker 1: repost footage from protests. All the footage Andy No shares
Speaker 1: about this head kicking incident is heavily edited to make
Speaker 1: it unclear to his followers what is actually happening and
Speaker 1: to make nose twisted narrative more believable. No started posting
Speaker 1: about the truck driver assault by describing Portland as being
Speaker 1: quote occupied with BLM and Antifa rioters unquote, further saying
Speaker 1: that the man had simply crashed his car and that
Speaker 1: quote the mob had pulled him out of his vehicle
Speaker 1: and quote beat him senseless with no. There are always
Speaker 1: attempts to paint Portland as being full of quote Antifa
Speaker 1: mobs roaming the streets looking for anyone to beat up,
Speaker 1: with the police never actually showing up to stop these
Speaker 1: dangerous Antifa, which this is, of course, far from the truth.
Speaker 1: The police themselves quickly showed up to this very incident
Speaker 1: after the head kick and arrested the perpetrator as soon
Speaker 1: as they identified him. No continued to post other people's
Speaker 1: clips while describing quote rioters and quote the mob attacking
Speaker 1: this man. But in the videos he shares, it's almost
Speaker 1: entirely one person doing all of the violence, and other
Speaker 1: members of this quote mob trying to physically restrain this
Speaker 1: main person from hitting the truck driver in a clip
Speaker 1: of people trying to provide first aid, and he describes
Speaker 1: quote rioters when no riot was actually declared that night,
Speaker 1: standing over the truck driver's unconscious body, after quote they
Speaker 1: beat him up. No also writes quote they pour water
Speaker 1: on him, as if people are just doing it for fun. Now,
Speaker 1: water isn't actually poured on the person in the video
Speaker 1: No captions that on but in other videos you can
Speaker 1: see water being poured on his head to both clean
Speaker 1: out the wounds and to attempt to wake him up.
Speaker 1: And he then posts about the altercation that took place
Speaker 1: prior to the crash, saying that quote, the BLM mob
Speaker 1: is beating a blonde woman, referencing the truck driver's girlfriend.
Speaker 1: And just as before, the video actually shows two people
Speaker 1: from the crowd in front of the seven eleven trying
Speaker 1: to hit this older woman as many of people from
Speaker 1: the actual testing crowd tried to protect her. No makes
Speaker 1: a post talking about the man that kicked the truck
Speaker 1: driver in the head, saying quote, he's part of the
Speaker 1: marauding BLM security at the protests in Portland. These are
Speaker 1: the people protesters want to replace the police with Now,
Speaker 1: this is simply an unverified and false claim. No one
Speaker 1: in Portland has ever talked about replacing the police with
Speaker 1: the random dudes that elected themselves as quote security during protests.
Speaker 1: In fact, many people at protests speak out against these
Speaker 1: self proclaimed security people, both before and after this incident.
Speaker 1: And of course no failed to mention that all this
Speaker 1: happened some distance away from the actual BLM protests that night.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I was there and I knew nothing
Speaker 1: about this until I got home and checked Twitter. But no,
Speaker 1: what have you think that this is the BLM movement itself,
Speaker 1: not a mixture of random men who la past security
Speaker 1: and drunk people. At seven eleven, when interviewed by local media,
Speaker 1: the truck driver's girl friend and the set of the
Speaker 1: people who attacked her and her boyfriend were not real protesters.
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Speaker 1: From months leading up to this incident, the far right
Speaker 1: had seemed almost afraid to get involved in Portland's protests.
Speaker 1: Some of this was likely due to the terrifying police violence,
Speaker 1: but we suspect the larger factor was that over the weeks,
Speaker 1: Portland's BLM protesters had been hardened by that violence and
Speaker 1: grown skilled at standing up to it as a unit.
Speaker 1: Prior to the sixteenth, there had only been two truly
Speaker 1: noteworthy far right attacks on protests. One came courtesy of
Speaker 1: a former Navy seal who allegedly threw an improvised explosive
Speaker 1: device at a small crowd of activists after a demonstration,
Speaker 1: and on August fifteenth, a group of right wing protesters,
Speaker 1: including many former Patriot Prayer members, held a flag wave
Speaker 1: outside the Justice Center. Numerous attendees assaulted and maced left
Speaker 1: wing counter protesters. One attendee, longtime far right rally or
Speaker 1: Skyler Journegan, fired his handgun into the crowd. He failed
Speaker 1: to hit anyone and was arrested a few days later,
Speaker 1: but the incident presaged rising tensions that would break out
Speaker 1: into mass violence just a week later. Online rage over
Speaker 1: the assault outside of the seven eleven, and long simmering
Speaker 1: anger over the BLM movement, which had seemed to capture
Speaker 1: the city's entire interest, inspired a coalition of different patriot
Speaker 1: groups to plan a rally for the twenty second. The
Speaker 1: attend d s would turn out to be a serried
Speaker 1: melange of far right and outright fascist demonstrators. Members of
Speaker 1: the Proud Boys made up the backbone of the force
Speaker 1: that showed up in front of the j C on
Speaker 1: the twenty second, but there were also Neo Nazis and militiamen.
Speaker 1: The individuals who showed up were only bound by two things,
Speaker 1: performative support for police who assaulted leftists and a desire
Speaker 1: to do similar violence themselves. These men and women showed
Speaker 1: up ready to fight. They wore armor, carried paintball guns
Speaker 1: with frozen paintballs, cans of bear mace, telescoping batons, knives,
Speaker 1: and firearms. The start of the demonstration was set for
Speaker 1: twelve noon. By the time Garrison and I arrived on scene,
Speaker 1: several dozen right wingers were already present. Standing across the
Speaker 1: street were less than half that number of anti fascists.
Speaker 1: The vibe was immediately tense, but not immediately violent. A
Speaker 1: pro BLM bicycle protests drove through the street in between
Speaker 1: both groups, followed by a crowd of several dozen bikers
Speaker 1: for Trump and men in trucks waving Trump and backed
Speaker 1: the blue flags. Well all this happened, more fascists and
Speaker 1: far right demonstrators continued to arrive. Their numbers hit a
Speaker 1: hundred than two hundred, while the forces countering them remained
Speaker 1: relatively small. At around twelve ten PM, a massive street
Speaker 1: fight broke out, as best I could tell, and started
Speaker 1: when a local activist in a wheelchair pulled up in
Speaker 1: front of one pro Trump biker. People surrounded both of them.
Speaker 1: Both sides collided, and then there were fist fights, mace
Speaker 1: and shoving. I can't even tell you who started it.
Speaker 1: David Willis, a local anti Semitic protester, threatened me in
Speaker 1: a number of other protesters with an a R fifteen
Speaker 1: style paintball gun loaded with paintballs that he had frozen
Speaker 1: in order to cause more damage. Willis had evidently spent
Speaker 1: quite some time listening to Portland protest live streams. He
Speaker 1: repeatedly threatened people using a tone that I think was
Speaker 1: a deliberate imitation of the police. There was a brief
Speaker 1: loll in the action after this initial explosion, but it
Speaker 1: did not last long. A violence commenced soon again. Right
Speaker 1: wing demonstrators pulled out tasers and beat sticks. Several of
Speaker 1: them formed up into a shield wall organized by a
Speaker 1: neo Nazi with a baton who attempted to lead them
Speaker 1: in the battle, and around twelve p m the fighting
Speaker 1: waned again. Anti fascist reinforcement showed up and the two
Speaker 1: groups neared parody, with two or three hundred people on
Speaker 1: each side. There was a pause in the violence, but
Speaker 1: everyone in attendance knew it would not last. The police
Speaker 1: opted to stay away, although in the distance you could
Speaker 1: hear the l rat asking everyone to please stay nice.
Speaker 1: For a little over a half hour, relative peace reigned.
Speaker 1: More left wing demonstrators continued to show up, including Dimitria Hester,
Speaker 1: who led the crowd and chance of Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 1: Right wingers responded with less cohesive chance of their own,
Speaker 1: like hey, hey, ho ho, these violent rioters have got
Speaker 1: to go. Finally, a bit after one ten p m,
Speaker 1: a right wing demonstrator hupped a jug of o J
Speaker 1: over his shield wall and into the anti fascist ranks.
Speaker 1: This was followed by improvised flash bangs, and soon another
Speaker 1: general melee broke out. Things got incredibly ugly. Much of
Speaker 1: the violence centered around the BLM snack van, a common
Speaker 1: sight at local protests that did exactly what it sounds like.
Speaker 1: In this video, you can hear a crowd of several
Speaker 1: dozen charge a single man standing in front of the van.
Speaker 1: They mace him repeatedly and beat his arms and legs
Speaker 1: with batons. Brawls continued to break out, and a little
Speaker 1: after one twenty p m. As I rushed over to
Speaker 1: wear a crowd of Proud Boys and other Bright wingers
Speaker 1: were assaulting a person on the ground, beating them with sticks.
Speaker 1: A Proud boy swung up baton at my camera, hand,
Speaker 1: breaking it in two places. Numerous other people bones broken
Speaker 1: by violent fascists that day. Most of these individuals will
Speaker 1: never make their names public. They showed up in black
Speaker 1: block to confront dangerous Nazis and other extremists who intended
Speaker 1: to harm people. Violence occurred throughout the next hour, with
Speaker 1: mass shield charges from the right wing that were repulsed
Speaker 1: only after significant injuries. The whole ugly event culminated around
Speaker 1: two pm, when an anti fascist shield wall finally squared
Speaker 1: off with a fascist shield wall. This was the first
Speaker 1: time that both groups had confronted each other in a mass,
Speaker 1: unified way, as opposed to the dozens of scattered brawls
Speaker 1: and to be fair conversations that had characterized the early
Speaker 1: part of the day. The right hoocked fireworks and insults
Speaker 1: at their opponents. Both groups kept their distance, throwing things
Speaker 1: and opposing each other with lines of shields. This stalemate
Speaker 1: lasted for a few minutes and was broken when a
Speaker 1: group of unarmed and unmasked BIPOC activists marched up to
Speaker 1: the right wing shield wall. Despite being unarmed, they were assaulted,
Speaker 1: en massed by the crowd and repeatedly maced. Anti fascists
Speaker 1: had to run up and pull them back into the
Speaker 1: line in order to protect them. The sheer volume of
Speaker 1: mace deployed by the right wing worked against them, though
Speaker 1: unlike their opponents who had spent the summer getting tear gassed,
Speaker 1: the right wing had very few gas masks or respirators.
Speaker 1: They blinded themselves with their own poisoned Then one anti
Speaker 1: fascist hucked a firework into the middle of the half
Speaker 1: blind shield wall, and the entire line panicked and eventually
Speaker 1: broke and fled. They briefly ran to the nearby I. R.
Speaker 1: S Building, begging the federal agents inside for help. When
Speaker 1: they were denied help, the right wing crowd retreated and
Speaker 1: gradually dissipated. August would mark the largest confrontation between right
Speaker 1: and left in Portland during the summer, but it was
Speaker 1: not the deadliest. That title would be earned the next weekend,
Speaker 1: when a Trump cruise, which consisted of several thousand pickup
Speaker 1: trucks and other vehicles flying Trump and thin Blue line flags,
Speaker 1: rolled through the city of Portland and eventually through downtown Portland.
Speaker 1: There was violence at this event, but it was much
Speaker 1: less cohesive. Several groups of Trump supporters fired paintball guns
Speaker 1: and mason to crowds from moving vehicles. The crowd this day, however,
Speaker 1: was less extreme than the smaller crowd on the twenty two.
Speaker 1: Some Trump supporters even went to the aid of people
Speaker 1: who were injured by other Trump supporters, and in general
Speaker 1: the overall group was much less ready to fight, at
Speaker 1: least in an organized way. But the site of thousands
Speaker 1: of pickup trucks blaring flags, and of course the assaults
Speaker 1: from a number of members of the Trump crews meant
Speaker 1: that anxiety was extremely high among Portland protesters, and of
Speaker 1: course contributing to this was the fact that the previous
Speaker 1: two weekends had involved heavy violence and gunfire. One individual
Speaker 1: had fired a handgun in warning during the protest on
Speaker 1: the twenty second, in addition to Skyler Journegan's shots into
Speaker 1: a crowd the week before. So understandably everyone was very
Speaker 1: amped up, and while the train of mounted Trump supporters
Speaker 1: eventually passed through town without serious life threatening violence, events
Speaker 1: at the periphery of the caravan would shortly lead to
Speaker 1: the first fatality of Portland's protests. The conflict occurred as
Speaker 1: two right wing demonstrators, both of whom had been present
Speaker 1: at the two were walking home. J Danielson and Chandler
Speaker 1: Pappas were regular patriot prayer marchers. Both carried handguns, batons,
Speaker 1: and mace. The exact sequence of events is unclear, but
Speaker 1: as best we can tell from since released surveillance footage,
Speaker 1: Pappas and Danielson seemed to have attacked a pro BLM
Speaker 1: and anti fascist demonstrator named Michael Reinhold. Reinhold responded to
Speaker 1: their mace with gunfire, killing Danielson in nearly hitting pappas
Speaker 1: Renald ran and fled the scene, immediately disappearing into the city.
Speaker 1: For several days, his identity was unknown and details around
Speaker 1: the shooting were completely obscured. This did not stop the
Speaker 1: right wing media and President Trump himself from turning Danielson
Speaker 1: into a martyr. Calls to brand Antifa a terrorist group
Speaker 1: reached a fever pitch when Reynold's identity was revealed. Much
Speaker 1: was made of the fact that he identified with both
Speaker 1: BLM and Antifa. The right wing disinformation ecosystem took this
Speaker 1: as evidence that Antifa and BLM were both part of
Speaker 1: some shadowy, organized plot to overthrow the United States government.
Speaker 1: The reality is that anti fascist activism and the goals
Speaker 1: of Black Lives Matter have always been deeply tied. As
Speaker 1: Max Smith attests, does that mean I'm part of an
Speaker 1: Antifa group? No am, I an anti ati fascist? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because how how can you not be right that? Only
Speaker 1: that only makes sense? Um, And so I think it's
Speaker 1: it's it's again one of those things that gets like
Speaker 1: thrown into the media as a buzzword that doesn't actually
Speaker 1: mean anything, and that's only doubled down on by like
Speaker 1: our president and people like that who just continue to
Speaker 1: use war as they don't understand because they think that
Speaker 1: they're explosive when in reality, in reality, the Antifa guys,
Speaker 1: you know, the Antifa, the Rose the City Antifa or whatever,
Speaker 1: are really like a bunch of like guys that I
Speaker 1: do like research and stuff for the most part, again
Speaker 1: US information. I've long used contacts to get like information
Speaker 1: like who is this gang? Who you know, what is
Speaker 1: this tattoo on this white supremacis I've been seeing over here?
Speaker 1: That's really what I've used them for. Um, you know
Speaker 1: the people that I know that identify as Antifa. But
Speaker 1: other than that, I mean, it's it's it's just an ideology.
Speaker 1: So it's it's weird to see people ask questions like
Speaker 1: are you Antifa? And I'm like, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Or is BLM has been taken over by Antifa? And
Speaker 1: BLM even is one of those statements that again kind
Speaker 1: of like Antifa, it doesn't actually mean anything. You know,
Speaker 1: there's no a Black Lives Matter a chapter here, like
Speaker 1: like national chapter here that I'm aware of. And people
Speaker 1: always say, you know, like this stuff takes away from
Speaker 1: the spirit of a Black Lives Matter. But then they
Speaker 1: also turn around and say a Black Lives Matter as
Speaker 1: a Marxist organization run by you know, the g B
Speaker 1: t Q so and say that it's itself is you know,
Speaker 1: is a swoop. So there seems like there's like a
Speaker 1: lot of things, and people have their ideas about these
Speaker 1: factions or groups or whatever, but in reality, these people
Speaker 1: aren't a part of any of that. We, I mean,
Speaker 1: most of us are not a part of any actual
Speaker 1: a group of anything. We're just out here, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting for our rights and for the rights of our
Speaker 1: of our friends and neighbors. So all those labels are
Speaker 1: are kind of funny, like, you know, we're not in
Speaker 1: a gang. We aren't the Proud Boys or the Patriot Prayers.
Speaker 1: They all have their names and clicks and groups and
Speaker 1: and and and and and nonprofits and all that. That's
Speaker 1: not really our thing. So I think that they have
Speaker 1: a hard time. I think that people have a hard
Speaker 1: time processing that. In general, that's not the way that
Speaker 1: we're trained to think. We're kind of training to think
Speaker 1: in the in the in the way of of clicks
Speaker 1: and groups and brands. You know, it's all about the
Speaker 1: branding and how are you branded and do you wear
Speaker 1: matching outfits and that kind of stuff. So people just
Speaker 1: see black block and they see a brand, and then
Speaker 1: they hear Antifa and they think of a brand, and
Speaker 1: then they just put it all together and they have
Speaker 1: this idea in their heads, but it's it's just not
Speaker 1: based in reality. Crim Brule also had some complicated thoughts
Speaker 1: on the intersection of anti fascism in the Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter movement. Um, it's complicated in the source of a
Speaker 1: lot of tention, uh for sure in the city right
Speaker 1: now and kind of throughout this entire thing, um, because
Speaker 1: you do have you know, marches and actions that claims
Speaker 1: be you know, black Lives matter when a lot of
Speaker 1: the people there um are there for like quote unquote
Speaker 1: anti fascists, for purely anti copias and um. And it's
Speaker 1: hard because you need bodies. But I don't know, because
Speaker 1: that's like that's some like person or days thinking. I
Speaker 1: feel like I know, Um, I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: lot we've learned about that and about I think direct
Speaker 1: action in general and protests in general. I think it
Speaker 1: actually is extremely important now. It's always ext really important,
Speaker 1: but now I think it's ext really important, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are more aware of that disirect action
Speaker 1: or the protest or like the mutual aid UH reach out,
Speaker 1: I don't know has a defined like role or defines
Speaker 1: like this is you know Antibaptist, Marxist, is black lives
Speaker 1: matter d A, this is you know anti cop sweep
Speaker 1: or whatever. I don't think it has to be you
Speaker 1: know that always spelled out, but it needs to be
Speaker 1: clear and then needs to be you know, leadership in
Speaker 1: position that no examin role. And you know, like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, kind of that like thinking we need numbers
Speaker 1: of personality person a days and it kind of is
Speaker 1: that there's yea, as you kind of learned, bigger d
Speaker 1: A and bigger actions. When she gets out of the
Speaker 1: tay wires, it's gonna be chaotic because there are so
Speaker 1: many people there who maybe they're there for the right reasons,
Speaker 1: but they're not like on the same page. And when
Speaker 1: everyone's not on the same age, and it's really hard
Speaker 1: for actually or effective and it's really easy people get sUAS.
Speaker 1: So like, yeah, smaller working sides and more focused now
Speaker 1: just talking about strategy, um, but with the with the
Speaker 1: focus is important and you know, all these all these
Speaker 1: things I guess in terms of the relationship between I
Speaker 1: guess those two things. My perspective is black liberations, liberation
Speaker 1: for everybody, and I guess from our perspective, the goal
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gold, but the the through
Speaker 1: line from me personally is black lives matter, at least
Speaker 1: like from a looking at it linearly standpoint. If if
Speaker 1: we really are considering black lives matter, if we get
Speaker 1: a point in our country where black lives are mattering,
Speaker 1: then there will probably be less bashists or we will
Speaker 1: have done something, you know what I mean. If the
Speaker 1: entire country is like black that's a country where at
Speaker 1: least bashists aren't in government, and that's a country where
Speaker 1: at least, um there's probably, if not abolished, police less
Speaker 1: police presidents or police starts spect black people, and police
Speaker 1: sent their spect black people. Clearly at least they're sec
Speaker 1: black people. They respect everybody. So for me through line
Speaker 1: and like that's also an evidence. But that's what started
Speaker 1: all this um is black eyes than matter. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not happy there's like self actions or
Speaker 1: there's kind of these multiple ideas existing within a movement
Speaker 1: about the goals, but that is the reality of the
Speaker 1: we live in. And I can only work together because
Speaker 1: we do all have common roles. Um. Yeah. The actual
Speaker 1: nuance in the discussion was lost in the national reaction
Speaker 1: to Jay Danielson's death. As soon as Michael Ryanald admitted
Speaker 1: to the shooting, claiming self defense and a Vice video,
Speaker 1: a man hunt ensued to bring him down. The U. S.
Speaker 1: Marshals caught him in early September, and Michael was gunned
Speaker 1: down near where he'd been hiding in Washington. Initial reports
Speaker 1: spoke of an exchange of gunfire, but later evidence revealed
Speaker 1: that Michael had not fired while officers shot dozens of
Speaker 1: times at the vehicle he was in. In mid October,
Speaker 1: at a campaign rally ahead of the November election, President
Speaker 1: Trump bragged that he had used the U. S. Marshals
Speaker 1: as more or less a death squad, saying we sent
Speaker 1: in the U. S. Marshals to fifteen minutes. It was
Speaker 1: over fifteen minutes, it was home. We got him. They
Speaker 1: knew who he was and didn't want to arrest him
Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes at ended anywhile, but then they called
Speaker 1: themselves peaceful proc right wing rallies and violence would continue
Speaker 1: throughout the remainder of the year. It was, however, notably
Speaker 1: lower key than it had been before. Several hundred Proud
Speaker 1: Boys rallied on the weekend of September twenty six, but
Speaker 1: both sides were kept largely apart. Less than a week
Speaker 1: before the event, Eugene ANTIFA had released a set of
Speaker 1: leaked chat logs from a group called Patriot Coalition who
Speaker 1: would help plan events on August as well. The chats,
Speaker 1: which I reported on alongside Jason Wilson for Bellancat and
Speaker 1: the UK Guardian, included threats to shoot members of the
Speaker 1: a c l U and legal observers, as well as
Speaker 1: embryonic plans to kidnap the governor of Oregon over the
Speaker 1: state's COVID nineteen lockdown. The governor convened a press conference
Speaker 1: after these reports and threatened to use the state's long
Speaker 1: dormant anti paramilitary laws if there was mass violence by
Speaker 1: the Proud Boys. On September, police kept anti fascists and
Speaker 1: fascists apart. A number of Proud Boys did do violence,
Speaker 1: assaulting several members of the press who came to cover
Speaker 1: their event, but no mass thousand person street fight ensued
Speaker 1: this time. In fact, after the far right street activities
Speaker 1: seemed to ebb For several months, there were small back
Speaker 1: the Blue rallies, which often involved right wingers masoncounter protesters
Speaker 1: and threatening them with firearms, and of course involved anti
Speaker 1: fascists doing things like breaking the windows on their cars,
Speaker 1: but mass violence failed to ensue. It seemed for a
Speaker 1: while as if the far right had spent itself in
Speaker 1: August of This would turn out to be untrue. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're recording this episode just two weeks after the capital
Speaker 1: of the United Dates was sieged and occupied briefly by
Speaker 1: hundreds of far right, fascist and white nationalist demonstrators on
Speaker 1: January six. This event was signposted by an attack by
Speaker 1: far right insurrectionists on the city of Salem, Oregon's capital,
Speaker 1: just a few days earlier. The whole chain of events
Speaker 1: further reinforced Oregon's reputation as something of a national bellweather
Speaker 1: for far right violence, with the anti fascists of the
Speaker 1: Rose City endured in the late summer came home to
Speaker 1: the capital of the entire country just a few months later.
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