To whoever burned an American flag in Seattle....

[JonLP24]

17. Stop how?

The left wing in the West coast are a big reason why the West Coast are safe blue states. There are right wing extremist groups in Western Washington & Oregon. Proud Boys showed up to Portland many times and they were the same group at the Capitol.

Groups like Antifa wouldn't exist if not for Trump or Trump supporters because they tend to recognize the threat of fascism sooner than most people.

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Police 3X More Likely To Use Violence Against Liberal Protesters Than Far-Right
New statistics from the U.S. Crisis Monitor and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) show that police used violence against leftwing protesters three times as often as against rightwing demonstrators

Black Lives Matter, Indigenous, anti-war, and other progressive activists reacted with a complete lack of surprise to data reported by The Guardian on Thursday that shows U.S. police are three times more likely to use violence against left-wing and social justice protesters than against those on the political right.

The report, based on statistics from from the U.S. Crisis Monitor—a database created this spring by researchers at Princeton and the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED)—found that the overwhelming majority of the thousands of total protests across the nation over the past year have been peaceful.

While most demonstrations in general were not attacked by police, officers used tear gas, rubber bullets, beatings with batons, and other violence against protesters at 511 left-wing events as opposed to just 33 right-wing ones since April 2020, according to ACLED data.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/report-police-3x-more-likely-use-violence

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214946378

DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat

White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

Two later draft versions of the same document — all of which were reviewed by POLITICO — describe the threat from white supremacists in slightly different language. But all three drafts describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups.

“Foreign terrorist organizations will continue to call for Homeland attacks but probably will remain constrained in their ability to direct such plots over the next year,” all three documents say.

Russia “probably will be the primary covert foreign influence actor and purveyor of disinformation and misinformation in the Homeland,” the documents also say.


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236

I don't think both sides are the same.