{"id":175952,"date":"2020-10-14T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/14\/sounds-more-and-more-like-a-hit\/"},"modified":"2020-10-14T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:27:00","slug":"sounds-more-and-more-like-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/14\/sounds-more-and-more-like-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds More and More Like a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

We now have more witness reports of the shooting of Michael Reinoehl by a federal task force, and it reinforces the perception that they just rolled up and started shooting<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The reports now are that there were no lights or sirens, and no attempt by officers to get Reinoehl to surrender. <\/p>\n

Considering the proclivities of law enforcement, the support for white supremacists is obvious, and the case of Fred Hampton comes to mind: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Michael Reinoehl was on the run.<\/p>\n

A few days after a shooting<\/a> left a far-right Trump supporter dead on the streets of Portland, Ore., Mr. Reinoehl, an antifa<\/a> activist who had been named in the news media<\/a> as a focus of the investigation, feared that vigilantes were after him, not to mention the police. Even some of his close friends did not know where he was.<\/p>\n

But the authorities knew.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 3, about 120 miles north of Portland, Mr. Reinoehl was getting into his Volkswagen station wagon when a pair of unmarked sport utility vehicles roared through the quiet streets, screeching to a halt just in front of his bumper. Members of a U.S. Marshals task force jumped out and unleashed a hail of bullets that shattered windows, whizzed past bystanders and left Mr. Reinoehl dead<\/a> in the street.<\/p>\n

Attorney General William P. Barr trumpeted the operation<\/a> as a \u201csignificant accomplishment\u201d that removed a \u201cviolent agitator.\u201d The officers had opened fire, he said, when Mr. Reinoehl \u201cattempted to escape arrest\u201d and \u201cproduced a firearm\u201d during the encounter. But a reconstruction of what happened that night, based on the accounts of people who witnessed the confrontation and the preliminary findings of investigators, produces a much different picture \u2014 one that raises questions about whether law enforcement officers made any serious attempt to arrest Mr. Reinoehl before killing him. <\/p>\n

In interviews with 22 people who were near the scene, all but one said they did not hear officers identify themselves or give any commands before opening fire. In their official statements, not yet made public, the officers offered differing accounts of whether they saw Mr. Reinoehl with a weapon. One told investigators he thought he saw Mr. Reinoehl raise a gun inside the vehicle before the firing began, but two others said they did not.<\/p>\n

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Five eyewitnesses said in interviews that the gunfire began the instant the vehicles arrived. None of them saw Mr. Reinoehl holding a weapon. A single shell casing of the same caliber as the handgun he was carrying was found inside his car.<\/p>\n

Garrett Louis, who watched the shooting begin while trying to get his 8-year-old son out of the line of fire, said the officers arrived with such speed and violence that he initially assumed they were drug dealers gunning down a foe \u2014 until he saw their law enforcement vests.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It increasingly looks like a preordained execution. <\/p>\n

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We now have more witness reports of the shooting of Michael Reinoehl by a federal task force, and it reinforces the perception that they just rolled up and started shooting. The reports now are that there were no lights or sirens, and no attempt by officers to get Reinoehl to surrender. Considering the proclivities of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[526,590,582],"class_list":["post-175952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-protests","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}