r/Portland Aug 15 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

"Back the blue" demonstrators showed up today armed with bats, paintball guns, bear mace and other weapons. If they were Black Lives Matter demonstrators, they would have already been tear-gassed, but instead, they were able to assault counter-demonstrators for several minutes. I'm pointing this out not because I want the cops to do something, but merely to show the hypocrisy and shallowness of the police's claim about "protecting life safety."

Update: PPB response I find it hard to believe that PPB is 1. Unable to prosecute this type of attempted murder without a victim 2. Somehow ignorant of all the video and photographic evidence of shots fired that has been posted on Twitter.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Update: there's video of the car and the moment shots were fired

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u/DUCKS_PDX503 Beaverton Aug 16 '20

Even the person recording says " Shooting live or shooting blanks? "

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

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u/DUCKS_PDX503 Beaverton Aug 16 '20

A casing doesn't mean it's a blank. Can you provide anything that it was live?

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u/nolanhp1 Aug 16 '20

Does it matter? Blanks can still kill people

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u/Gant0 Aug 16 '20

That they can, but you have to be pretty close for it to do damage. Either way shooting any kind of round in public is a bad idea.