Another example of more violence growing:
Armed rightwingers have attacked leftwing protesters and reporters, supplanting the nightly standoffs with policeOver the last three months in Portland, mass protests against police violence and racism gradually gave way to nightly often violent standoffs between a core of pro-Black Lives Matter...
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If the democrat mayor and the democrat Gov would have gotten together they could have had this stopped a long time ago.
But, they chose not to. Now that the polling has turned south for the democrats, it has become a liability for the party.
Even Sleepy Joe has finally made a statement about the violence. Just a week ago during the Dem convention, everyone
was mum on it. Sad
Putting the blame on the continuing violence in Portland, one killed last night there,
One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said. It wasn’t clear if the shooting was linked to fights that broke out as a caravan of about 600 vehicles...
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a finger can be pointed directly at The President. Sending in Federal Troops in Portland exacerbated the violence. His threats to take back the streets with Federal Troops and cry for "law and order" vis a vis "no Justice, no peace"; we can also point fingers at Trump for the deaths of two in Wisconsin.
Note, there was no mention at the RNC Convention of the killing of black men which sparked the protests, in fact we can go back to 2016 when Kap first kneels in protest and Trump mocked him, making the protest seditious and anti American. The Truth is American ethos were spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, to wit, "
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
If Donald Trump has used the bully pulpit at day one from the Oval Office and used this phrase, and to put local LE Agencies across the nations [ Sheriffs and Police Chiefs) on notice that he would order all suspicious deaths of black men be investigated by the federal dept of justice - this would not only put local agencies on notice that federal funds would be denied them, but the agitators who looted and burned cities would have been seen as criminals they are, and the black community leaders might have led peaceful demonstrations on the streets of American using the words of MLK.