{"id":177914,"date":"2019-05-06T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/06\/the-secret-weapon-of-white-supremacists\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:28:00","slug":"the-secret-weapon-of-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/06\/the-secret-weapon-of-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Weapon of White Supremacists"},"content":{"rendered":"
The fact that they have the active support of a significant proportion of law enforcement personnel.<\/div>\n

Case in point is the Portland Oregon Police department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you know Oregon’s history, it once banned black people, and in the 1920s, it was the most Klan dominated state ever, so this is no surprise for anyone who is lived in the area: (I went to high school in Portland Oregon)<\/p>\n

On August 4th, 2018, the far-right \u201cfree speech\u201d group Patriot Prayer<\/a> organized a rally in Portland, Oregon alongside alt-right \u201cfraternity\u201d the Proud Boys, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group<\/a>. A coalition of counter-protesters, including local unions, immigrant rights advocates, and Rose City Antifa<\/a> were also in attendance. It was the third such rally in the city last summer, and led to multiple arrests and injuries. <\/p>\n

MuckRock user Brian Waters obtained communication logs from the Portland Police Bureau from the day of the rally<\/a>. The logs show police frequently overlooking armed and violent demonstrators with Patriot Prayer or the Proud Boys, while explicitly targeting counter-protesters with anti-riot measures<\/a> like flash grenades and pepper spray, injuring many. <\/p>\n

The PPB has been under scrutiny<\/a> for its handling of white supremacist and right-wing rallies in the city, with accusations of excessive force on left-wing protesters and overt friendliness toward right-wing ones, including those with known histories of violence.<\/p>\n

Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson reportedly switched the location of the rally from a federal plaza near the district court to a public park near Naito Parkway, so that his group could carry concealed weapons<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Days before the rally, the PPB issued a statement saying attendees carrying firearms must have an Oregon Concealed Handgun License and must keep their weapons concealed at all times. But the logs show that PPB repeatedly noted demonstrators with Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys carrying visible firearms without apprehending them, putting other attendees – especially counter-protesters – at risk.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

A group of white men, presumably associated with the Patriot Prayer and Proud Boy coalition, was noted to have taken a position on the roof<\/a> of a parking garage, where PPB noted they had a rifle and binoculars. No follow-up action was apparently taken to confront or apprehend these men. (Editor\u2019s Note: Waters request<\/a> was specifically related to records related to that incident.<\/i>)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Portland Police are actively supporting white supremacists, racists, and Nazis.<\/p>\n

They let a sniper team on the roof, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 freedum!!<\/p>\n

Support your local police, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fact that they have the active support of a significant proportion of law enforcement personnel. Case in point is the Portland Oregon Police department. If you know Oregon’s history, it once banned black people, and in the 1920s, it was the most Klan dominated state ever, so this is no surprise for anyone who …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,526,398],"class_list":["post-177914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177914"}],"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=177914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}