"Peaceful protesters." HAHAHAHAH now that's a good one!
"Peaceful protesters" assaulting people, burning shit, trying to permanently blind officers with lasers, looting, and throwing potentially lethal objects at citizens and officers.
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"Assaulting people" - not true as far as I have seen. The PPD and the feds are the ones assaulting people. "Trying to permanently blind officers with lasers" - a bit of a stretch, especially considering protesters are shining lasers at snipers that are pointing laser scopes at them. "looting, and throwing potentially lethal objects at citizens and officers." - definitely not citizens, and the objects being thrown at officers are mostly ordinance that was thrown at the protesters by the officers first, along with some water bottles and a few other not-so-lethal objects. In the one night I was down there so far I saw two protesters with rubber bullet wounds to the head and an immense amount of tear gas and flash bangs were unleashed. There is some credence to the burning of things and looting, but that is a small group of people that do not represent the mass of the protest. There are always a couple bad apples in every bunch, but most of the rest of the protesters do not approve of such actions as it is not in the best interest of the cause. The protesters have been assaulted consistently without directly assaulting the police in return. I would say that Portland is learning how to fight back without actually fighting. I hope we can keep things civil even though we may disagree about what is happening in Portland - I was on the ground and experienced it first hand, and will be going again soon.
Nah, man. I'm not falling for that. I have a folder full of violent videos now - hundreds. Setting buildings on fire, throwing rocks and frozen water bottles, and yanking people out of their vehicles to beat them for being white. Sorry, but those industrial lasers on Ebay CAN permanently blind. They kill the cells in your retinas. Know how I know? I'm an amateur astronomer and own a few. You have to wear safety goggles while operating one. Anything over 5mw needs eye safety, and some of the ones off Ebay are 200-500mw. Shining an 18650 powered laser in someone's eyes should earn you prison time.
Mob rule is ALWAYS wrong. We are a nation of laws. You do not get laws changed through violence. You VOTE, and petition your representatives to change them.
ANTIFA is a hateful, violent, evil terrorist group that uses violence to silence dissenting voices.
Can you please provide a link for Portland protesters attacking white people (most of the protesters are white, and I am also white)? This is a claim I have heard more than once but have not been able to find information on. Promoting the truth is important, so if this is true we need to bring it to light with evidence included to back it up. Thank you.
Well look at that. I spoke too soon. I just read a report saying that at least 3 officers have been possibly permanently blinded by laser wielding terrorists at your "peaceful" demonstration.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/3-fed-agents-likely-blinded-by-lasers-pointed-at-them-in-portland-wh/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-riots-federal-officers-blinded-lasers-fireworks-doxed
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12220100/three-federal-officers-permanent-blindness-portland-protest/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/three-federal-officers-could-be-permanently-blind-after-laser-attacks-from-portland-protesters
Dude seriously you can stop with the anecdotal evidence. Those aren't protests. They're violent.
All those articles are basically saying the same thing (and all the videos aside from one by Fox seem to contradict the articles and are promoting opposition of federal occupation) and they do not provide evidence of names, photos, or videos of the officers affected (not to say that it did not happen but they haven't proved it). These are good examples of how the actions of a select few are being used to discredit thousands of non-violent protesters. Also good examples of how the mainstream media is trying to blame these responses to the violence from police as the actual original incidents, when it has been the feds and police instigating the violence the whole time. They always start with tear gas and other riot munitions previous to the few instances of aggressive reactions. New information is coming out every day which makes it hard to keep my information up to date, but i do appreciate the counter points, and I am not buying into or falling for anything, just reporting on what is actually happening from the view point of the thousands of non-violent protesters experiencing it. There are some people that are stepping over the lines they should not cross, but those few people should not define these Portland protests as a whole when thousands of people are ALL being non-violent, the police are consistently and persistently crossing lines they should not, and pushing these few protesters to these actions. If there are protesters blinding officers with lasers I (along with most of the protesters) am 100% against that and any other violent reaction. I am not out to defend anyone who is acting out of violence in this situation (police, feds, or protesters), just those that are NOT and being accused as such.
Also the claim of protesters violently attacking police for 52 nights in a row is not true, and the feds are not civilian police officers, they are military being labeled as police. That is the narrative that the mainstream media is pushing that contrasts the footage they are not publishing like what is displayed here. The following link provides the most credible mainstream media coverage I have seen so far, although they did not cover what was behind the Portland Mayor's publicity stunt:
You have to turn on the audio manually for this video.https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007243995/portland-protests-federal-government.html