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It looks like the "violent thugs" have been identified and removed from the protests.
In the absence of confrontation, and with the state police remaining largely unseen inside the courthouse, tensions quickly eased. Without the federal forces to draw attention, protest organisers kept the focus on Black Lives Matters and reform of the Portland police.
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Some in the crowd worked to avoid trouble by stopping demonstrators from lighting fires and shooting fireworks at the courthouse as they had done on previous nights.
Dan Thomas, an African American man, stood in the street shouting at people not to cause a confrontation with the state police.
Attacking the federal building is not Black Lives Matter. Leave it alone. Youre playing into Trumps hands, he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/portland-sees-peaceful-night-of-protests-following-withdrawal-of-federal-troops/ar-BB17pr3f?ocid=sf
LakeArenal
(28,847 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Since theyre the ones stirring it up
NCjack
(10,279 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Im sure boogaloo / white nat. instigators infiltrated the protests .... BUT so did the borac people!
With the borac people standing down, the protests are peaceful.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Antifa doesnt exist other than all patriots are Antifa...
All violence and property damage is done by righty or sometimes people in a neighborhood who have been kicked in the teeth for 200 years will break a window or too, just be GOD DAMN GRATEFUL the tables are not turned and it isnt
WHITE PEOPLE
who are on the receiving end of endless systematic and systemic racism because they/we would BURN DOWN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY after the first time one of them/us was lynched.
So be grateful that in general POC are far more mature and responsible when it comes to being on the receiving end of this bulshit.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Response to ehrnst (Original post)
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If you want another humiliating ass-kicking, we'll be right here waiting for you.