This is tramp's America:
WHEN IT COMES to left-wing protests, the bias comes into sharp focus.
On June 4, 2017, police unleashed less lethal weapons on leftists,
illegally kettled nearly 400 people, recorded their IDs, and
retained the information despite assurances that they wouldn’t. The
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon said of the incident, “No other police force in America uses crowd control weapons with the regularity of the Portland Police Bureau.”
Just over a year later, on
August 4, 2018, the police launched an
unprovoked assault against peaceful protesters,
nearly killing one when a flashbang grenade punctured his helmet, resulting in a brain hemorrhage. And on May 1 this year, 20 Patriot Prayer members led by Gibson and accompanied by Ngo
attacked antifascists at a bar, fracturing the vertebrae of one woman (whose
name was released by Ngo, leading to threats of violence against her, according to her friends). The bar owner claimed that it took police an
hour to respond despite numerous emergency calls. The police released a
lengthy statement seeking to justify why they didn’t respond until after the fight had ended despite knowledge of the attack as it was happening.
Police complicity and politicians’ inaction have allowed groups like the Proud Boys to stage violent spectacles again and again.
theintercept.com