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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRevealed: pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland rallies
Revealed: pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland ralliesPatriots Coalition members suggested political assassinations and said laws will be broken, people will get hurt, leaked chats show
Read it here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/23/oregon-portland-pro-trump-protests-violence-texts
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Leaked chat logs show Portland-area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition and even suggesting political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city, including one scheduled for this weekend.
The chats on the GroupMe app, shared with the Guardian by the antifascist group Eugene Antifa, show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with leftwing Portland activists, and consume a steady diet of online disinformation about protests and wildfires.
At times, rightwing activists discuss acts of violence at recent, contentious protests, which in some cases they were recorded carrying out. At one point, David Willis, a felon currently being sued for his alleged role in an earlier episode of political violence, joins a discussion about the use of paintballs.
Where other members had previously suggested freezing the paintballs for maximum damage, Willis wrote: They make glass breaker balls that are rubber coated metal. They also have pepper balls but they are about 3 dollars a ball. Dont freeze paintballs it makes them wildly inaccurate [sic.]
The chats on the GroupMe app, shared with the Guardian by the antifascist group Eugene Antifa, show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with leftwing Portland activists, and consume a steady diet of online disinformation about protests and wildfires.
At times, rightwing activists discuss acts of violence at recent, contentious protests, which in some cases they were recorded carrying out. At one point, David Willis, a felon currently being sued for his alleged role in an earlier episode of political violence, joins a discussion about the use of paintballs.
Where other members had previously suggested freezing the paintballs for maximum damage, Willis wrote: They make glass breaker balls that are rubber coated metal. They also have pepper balls but they are about 3 dollars a ball. Dont freeze paintballs it makes them wildly inaccurate [sic.]
So, what can be done about this intentional disruption and demeaning of a peaceful rally? I suspect the same damn thing is happening here in Louisville tonight.
These thugs are against our Constitution......
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Revealed: pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland rallies (Original Post)
KY_EnviroGuy
Sep 2020
OP
Next thing you know they'll be vandalizing the city and trying to set police buildings on fire.
CentralMass
Sep 2020
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stillcool
(32,626 posts)1. thanks...bookmarked for manana...
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)2. Next thing you know they'll be vandalizing the city and trying to set police buildings on fire.
Actually another group has that one covered.
bucolic_frolic
(43,057 posts)3. State and local authorities need to step up