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[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/10/reinoehl-portland-antifa-killing-police/|
Remember. Trump tweeted a request to take him out.
Next day, he was killed with as many as fifty bullets. And Barr issued a statement.
By
Tim Elfrink
September 10, 2020 at 1:14 a.m. PDT
When police last week surrounded Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist suspected of fatally shooting a member of a far-right group in Portland, Ore., the wanted man wasnt obviously armed, a witness to the scene said Wednesday.
In fact, according to Nate Dinguss, Reinoehl was clutching a cellphone and eating a gummy worm as he walked to his car outside an apartment complex in Lacey, Wash. Thats when officers opened fire without first announcing themselves or trying to arrest him, Dinguss, a 39-year-old who lives in the apartment complex, said in a statement shared with The Washington Post.
Dingusss account of the Sept. 3 fatal shooting, first reported by the Oregonian, contradicts details offered by federal authorities, who said Reinoehl, 48, pulled a gun as members of a fugitive task force tried to arrest him. Two other witnesses also told the Olympian they had seen Reinoehl fire a weapon at police.
If Reinoehl did pull a gun -- or was seen reaching for a weapon -- police wouldnt have needed to warn him before opening fire.
Dinguss, whose attorney described him as an ordained minister, said he fears reprisals from far-right groups and police for describing what he saw unfolding outside his apartment.
We are very concerned for our clients safety for speaking out, both from the fascist right, and retaliation by law enforcement, said Luke Laughlin, his attorney, in a statement.
Suspect in Portland slaying killed when authorities moved to arrest him
Reinoehls case unfolded against a national backdrop of escalating violence as protesters and far-left groups clashed with armed members of self-described militias and far-right organizations in Wisconsin, Oregon and elsewhere.
Prosecutors last week charged Reinoehl with fatally shooting Aaron J. Danielson, 39, on Aug. 29 after supporters of President Trump clashed with counterprotesters in downtown Portland. In an interview with Vice News last week, Reinoehl suggested the shooting was self-defense and said he believed Danielson, a member of the far-right Patriot Prayer group, was threatening him and a friend.
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As national politicians, including Trump, demanded Reinoehl be swiftly arrested, officers in the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force tracked him to Lacey, about 120 miles north of Portland.
There are few official details about what happened next. At least four members of the task force, which included officers from a variety of local agencies, fired dozens of times at Reinoehl; the U.S. Marshals Service later said he had a handgun, but it wasnt clear whether he had ever fired it at police.
Dinguss said he never saw Reinoehl pull out a gun.
He said he watched as two unmarked police vehicles converged on Reinoehl as he walked to his car, holding his phone and chewing on a piece of candy. The officers never audibly identified themselves and didnt try to arrest Reinoehl, Dinguss said.
Instead, he said they immediately began firing. When Reinoehl heard the gunfire, he ducked behind his car, which was pinned in by the law enforcement vehicles; he never tried to get inside, Dinguss said, and he never saw him reaching for a weapon. Dinguss said he watched police unleash rapid-fire rounds at Reinoehl, once pausing to shout Stop! before resuming their fire.
Dinguss added officers waited multiple minutes before rendering medical aid to Reinoehl, who died at the scene from several gunshot wounds.
The Thurston County Sheriffs Office, which is investigating Reinoehls death, didnt immediately return a message about Dingusss account; a spokesman for the Marshals declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
Laughlin called for the Thurston County Sheriffs Office to reassign their investigation, alleging the agency has a conflict of interest since it procured the search warrants against Reinoehl.
A completely independent agency with no involvement in the events must conduct the investigation, Laughlin said. However, the level of involvement of TCSO in the criminal investigation of Reinoehl is questionable."
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Oh, right. The police let him walk away with his gun from three bodies and go to his car and go home, where he was much later gently taken into custody, and then a very nice judge stayed his extradition to that mean Kenosha County.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)But he was executed by firing squad.
Evolve Dammit
(16,723 posts)crickets
(25,960 posts)Then the nation would have heard all about what was really going on in Portland at the time, and we can't have that.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)2naSalit
(86,515 posts)Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)malaise
(268,886 posts)Lock them up!!
Hekate
(90,633 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)DSandra
(999 posts)Hekate
(90,633 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)PNW-Dem
(244 posts)I don't think they wear body cams. Probably won't know the identities of the shooters. Probably flew in from out of town. What's the recourse?
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)Where can we go with this info? We have no more safeguards for our democtratic experiment.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,806 posts)Sounds like a mass assassination to me...........
oldsoftie
(12,525 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,169 posts)ie.. Anti-Fascists
ie. AntiFa
as a "far left group"
I wonder if these guys would consider themselves "far left"?
iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)rwsanders
(2,596 posts)magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Must have been,... if anti-Fascist is a far left-wing radical anarchist terrorist.
WTF !
dchill
(38,465 posts)oldsoftie
(12,525 posts)THIS shooting should have had at least SOMEONE with a damn body camera on. If not, some major investigations need to be done.
But by WHO? Certainly not the DOJ!
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)And has no bearing on whether or not he was summarily executed on order of the president.
oldsoftie
(12,525 posts)Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)The president sent a tweet instructing that he be killed.
He was. Only on the request of the president; no other due process afforded him.
That's what dictators of banana republics do.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,963 posts)For what? Remember when Stormy Daniels said he threatened her? Perhaps the bodyguard has been busy recruiting white nationals to attack BLM protesters or working with feds to stir up problems so Trump can bray about law and order.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,587 posts)The lesson here is that a far right killer gets kid glove treatment and possible far left killer is pumped full of lead. I don't know if what Michael Forest Reinoehit did was self defense or not. They should've arrested him and given him his day in court. If he was found guilty they could've locked his ass up. Double standards.