I don’t know if there’s much talk about this but it doesn’t seem so. It’s just another day in America:
One person was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting on Saturday night during a protest in Portland against killings by police officers.
The Portland Police Bureau said a woman was dead when officers arrived. Two men and three other women were taken to a nearby hospital, the police said. Information on their conditions was not immediately released.
The shooting took place near a park in Portland that has been the staging ground for a number of protests against police killings in recent years. Neighbors said several shots were fired.
“I was sitting in the room talking to my wife, and all of a sudden you hear repeated gunshots,” said Jeff Pry, who lives in the area.
Few other details about the shooting were immediately available.
Portland has been a center for the racial justice protests that were touched off by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. In Portland, the demonstrations have sometimes spiraled into violence between protesters and counterprotesters.
Information on social media indicated the protest Saturday was in response to the death of Amir Locke, 22, who was fatally shot by the police in Minneapolis when they were carrying out a search warrant early on Feb. 2. The killing of Mr. Locke, who was Black, stirred anger in Portland.
Mr. Locke was not the target of the police raid, which was carried out with a so-called no-knock warrant that does not require notifying residents. Minneapolis has since suspended the use of such warrants.
Ahead of the demonstration, multiple social media accounts belonging to far-right groups shared information about a possible counterprotest. One account warned that if the march got out of hand, there could be a “counter-punch.” But it was unclear whether counterprotesters actually attended or were involved.
I suppose it’s possible that there was some personal motive that had nothing to do with the protest but it seems unlikely.
It also seems unlikely that if Portland authorities figure out who did this they will send in a goon squad (“deputized” US Marshalls) to execute the person as they did to Antifa murder suspect Michael Rheinhold on Donald Trump’s orders.
We sent in the US Marshals,” Trump said during a campaign rally in North Carolina, adding that it “took 15 minutes (and) it was over.”
The President immediately followed that statement by appearing to indicate that authorities had no intention of ever taking Reinoehl alive.
“They knew who he was; they didn’t want to arrest him, and in 15 minutes that ended,” Trump said.
“The US Marshals went in to get him, and in a short period of time — they ended in a gunfight. This guy was a violent criminal,” Trump said, adding, “And I will tell you something: That’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”
There was no gunfight…
I still can’t over the fact that vast numbers of Americans think they’re living in a cheap Hollywood western and it includes the former President of the United states: