Well, you can hardly blame folks outraged by the fraudulent election especially when they had been watching riots, looting and burnings for months with the perps not charged and with the msm urging them on.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was most outraged when a reporter asked the Democrat if the months-long rioting in his city “set the stage” for violence at the U.S. Capitol last week.Portland has seen months of violent riots perpetrated by left-wing protesters, most identifying as “anti-fascist” or...
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RE: Did Portland riots set up the DC attacks?
1. The liberal media and politics downplaying the BLM riots, and the previous tolerance of Leftwing protesters trespassing into Congressional areas and threarening to disrupt Hearings,
DID condition protesters to believe they could publicly protests without recourse.
Had the Federal Govt shutdown the BLM protests, or gone after the crowds at the Kavanaugh hearing, maybe the other protesters would have acted differently.
2. I believe the opposite has happened:
Only after the Feds went after DC protesters, then this made it acceptable to go after Portland or other BLM protesters.
Before DC, it was "racist" to badmouth or stop the BLM protests and riots, considered to be an understandable backlass from longstanding oppression.
After the Feds investigated DC protesters for prosecution, now it is only fair to hold BLM protesters to the same standards.