One Dead, Five Injured From Shooting at Black Lives Matter March (Portland)

[Nevilledog]

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Alexander Reid Ross, antifascist
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One of the victims from last night's shooting talking about the shooter: “He wasn’t threatened by us. He walked up to us yelling about protestors in his neighborhood and opened fire within 90 seconds.”

portlandmercury.com
One Dead, Five Injured From Shooting at Black Lives Matter March
A woman is dead and five others are injured after gunfire broke out during a protest against police killings in Northeast Portland on Saturday evening. The Normandale Park demonstration was organized...
6:11 PM · Feb 20, 2022

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2022/02/20/38576071/one-dead-five-injured-from-shooting-at-black-lives-matter-march

One woman who was hit by the shooter Sunday evening shared her experience in writing with the Mercury. She requested anonymity, out of fear for her safety. She said she and three other women were standing in the middle of a street near NE 55 and NE Hassalo, working as traffic safety volunteers to steer traffic away from the planned march. All women were allegedly unarmed.

The woman described seeing a man angrily walking towards them after exiting a house.

“We were unarmed and actively working to de-escalate him and get him to leave,” she told the Mercury. “He wasn’t threatened by us. He walked up to us yelling about protestors in his neighborhood and opened fire within 90 seconds.”

She said she was standing about ten feet away from the man when he shot her, and bullets also grazed her knee and arm. Another woman was shot in the stomach, leg, and chest. Another was hit in the neck. The fourth woman was fatally shot. The woman who spoke with the Mercury said that volunteer street medics were the first on the scene to respond to their injuries.

She said she was discharged from OHSU at midnight Saturday, along with another of the injured women. She said she was surprised to learn that paramedics also took the shooter to OHSU.

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There's also an Oregonlive article, but I can't get around the paywall

[PoliticAverse]

1. Rather odd that the police won't even say whether an arrest has been made. n/t

[WarGamer]

2. Chances that it's a RWNJ??

[madville]

3. Probably not

All the news reports make no mention of a description of the shooter or shooters, several eyewitness accounts, some say a shooter was taken to the hospital, some say two people arrested. But zero mention of any description of these shooters.

[manicdem]

5. Doesn't matter what side they're on

It's a horrible act that should be denounced by everyone, no matter political affiliation.

[Blecht]

4. Details have been hard to come by

[manicdem]

6. Mysterious incident

The crime scene “was extremely chaotic,” the police said in a statement on Sunday, “and a number of witnesses were uncooperative with responding officers. Most people on scene left without talking to police.”

"Some activist groups warned protesters to limit the sharing of firsthand accounts on social media, whether through photo or text."

Hmm wonder what happened there.

[Buddy2]

7. Do we assume White GOP standing his ground to protesters?

Media is protecting something.

[wnylib]

8. Silence from police and media creates

rumors and more problems. We need to know what happened.

[James48]

9. Nothing to see here.

Move along. Just some people exercising “ legitimate political discourse,” out of the barrel of a gun.

[Buddy2]

10. Sounds like one Antifa armed versus mc homeowner

As I’ve heard.

One armed Antifa vs one armed homeowner who happened to also be a member of the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle gang, also obviously armed.