Are the going to blame the Feds and lack of procedure for what's going on in Chicago as well? This is local police.
Chicago police release video showing confrontation near Grant Park Columbus statue protest
Any sane person can tell this is no longer about peaceful protests but about creating chaos.
There is no excuse for this behavior in Portland, Chicago, or any city in the US. Yet you keep finding excuses for them.
The overwhelming percentage of protests have been peaceful with no destruction of property. A few people, who we don't know what their political motivations were have caused destruction of property. Looting is not right, nor is vandalism.
I know from people who were actually in Seattle protesting the WHO in the 90s that they witnessed people who were not part of their group show up, break windows or do some other vandalism and then run off.
I do believe that some of the people who are causing trouble may be politically liberal people who want to just tear down everything. But I am also almost certain that some of the people participating in the violence are opportunists who have no political motives here and some may be people like the proud boys who want to give the otherwise peaceful protesters a bad name.
Some of the people involved are also mentally ill. Jacob Michael Gaines who was arrested July 11 for assaulting a federal marshal is a recent homeless transplant to Portland with a history of mental illness.
We already have a video that has been making the rounds by a known fraudster (James O'Keefe) about Portland Antifa that has been proven to be fake.
I have heard from people who have been at the protests in Portland. The vast majority were like the one I posted about the other day. They are peaceful with no violence and no vandalism. From what I've heard this is the way the majority of protests go.