Police: 3 arrests at right-wing rally in Portland, Oregon

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By GILLIAN FLACCUS

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police arrested three people at a right-wing rally Saturday afternoon in Portland, Oregon, and authorities say they’re also investigating an assault after one person who was documenting the event was pushed to the ground and kicked in the face.

Several hundred people, dozens of them wearing militarized body armor, had gathered — far fewer than the 10,000 organizers had expected to show to support President Donald Trump and his “law and order” reelection campaign as tensions boil over nationwide following the decision not to charge officers in Louisville, Kentucky, for killing Breonna Taylor.

The event began at noon and was largely dispersed by 3 p.m. The Oregon Department of Transportation shut down the interstate highway for a brief time to help control the crowd and flow of traffic.

“The purpose of this closure was to clear some people out of the area who wanted to leave and to keep competing groups separate,” said Chris Liedle, a spokesman with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, in updates posted on Twitter as the city braced for the threat of violence at multiple rallies in the area.



Members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators kneel in prayer at a rally on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/John Locher)


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[BigmanPigman]

1. What are they praying for?

Are they praying that they won't get arrested after punching protestors?

[AZ8theist]

13. Praying for Jeebus to provide them with brains...

[gordianot]

2. When kneeling in prayer I know how to get them on their feet.

Play the Star Spangle Banner while you arrest them.

[ArizonaLib]

3. In Joe Biden's Catholic church, they kneel with both knees

Are those portrayed as praying in this picture only kneeling with one knee to protest the prayer, God, or civility?

Why not? They are hypocrites about everything else.

[Grokenstein]

4. Dramatic little fascists, aren't they.

Is that jacket logo for Greenway Health? Do they want their company associated with rightwanker loons and domestic terrorists?

[RussBLib]

5. as if I needed another reason to knock religion

I find their display of piety rather incongruous.

"In Jesus name, Amen."

Now let's bash some heads!!

[Igel]

9. It's just another form of virtue signalling.

Often.

Sometimes it's not. You need to look at purpose and intent.

Just like not all BLM protestors are violent--some twits wedded to all-or-none thinking to try to say none could be violent or all are obviously violent--so not all RW protestors are violent. Typically, when dealing with groups of people, the best and most valid characterization of individual behavior is "some do, some don't."

[SamKnause]

6. I am so fucking sick of religion.

[llashram]

7. they're praying?

well being that they are trumps predators, the all should be looking down to their real spiritual guide.

[PatSeg]

8. What a great photo

Caught at just the right moment. The look on that woman's face is priceless.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. I honestly thought it was Fat Donnie's Supreme Court pick

[kimbutgar]

10. Proud boys kneeling in prayer is blasphemous

Nothing they say or do is Christ like. Jesus is love and they are all about hate. These cretins give a bad name to Christianity.

[truthisfreedom]

12. So THEY can kneel with the American flag, but black people and football players, not so much.

I pay my neighbor for the use of his dumpster to get rid of my garbage, and I have to be careful to avoid his dogshit all around the area. That's what these people are. The shit we have to be careful to avoid.