Proud Boys Follow Their New Script: Use Portland, Ore. Anti- Mask Rallies To Crank Up Fresh Violence

[appalachiablue]

- Portland, OR , Aug. 8: A far-right extremist points his rifle at Willamette Week journalist Justin Yau. Anti-fascists & far-right extremists clashed near a religious gathering in Portland for the 2nd day in a row without a police response. The gun later turned out to be a nonlethal Airsoft rifle designed to imitate an AR-15.

Daily Kos, Aug. 9, 2021.
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Following their emerging post- Jan. 6 strategy of attaching themselves to local events, Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon, tangled over the weekend with counterprotesters and antifascists in the downtown area. It led to a number of ugly scenes with armed and armored men in masks pointing their rifles at journalists and onlookers.

The clashes originated on Saturday, when a far-right evangelical preacher using Proud Boys as “security” held a rally downtown at the city’s waterfront park. This naturally attracted counterprotesters and resulted in some fights and tossed fireworks; those conflicts later spread downtown, where a group of Proud Boys tangled with antifascists briefly. Then, on Sunday evening, even more Proud Boys prowled the downtown streets with weapons and roaring pickups, but the confrontations remained brief.

The weekend’s violence was sparked by a warmup act for a weekend waterfront rally by right-wing pastor and Christian rocker Sean Feucht, who has been organizing anti-COVID-measure protests as part of a West Coast tour. Canadian preacher Artur Pawlowski, another anti-masker, was setting up to speak to a small crowd on Saturday when the event was broken up by antifascists.

While Fox News and others portrayed the Saturday brawls as an attack on a Christian group by antifa (Andy Ngo described it as “a coordinated violent attack on Christian families”), the conflicts appear primarily to have begun between protesters & the “security” team, which was populated primarily by Proud Boys & militiamen. Feucht had held a rally in downtown Portland in Aug. 2020 that also was a protest against state COVID-19 restrictions that attracted several hundred maskless participants, but relatively few protesters...

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[TheRealNorth]

1. Where was the cop....

To drop that punk with fake AR? I guess it's okay for white people to point guns at unarmed people.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. And that gut makes a great target.

[appalachiablue]

3. ++

[CanonRay]

4. Why don't we kick the Canadians ass back there.