It very well could be made up but they are defiantly beating people with something the journalist wasn’t the only one that got bloodied. And why are they attacking old men and homosexuals?
Anyone committing violent acts should be rounded up and tried for doing crime.
The situation on the ground though shows complete inaction on the part of the city and the Police to do anything about both sets of extremists.
There has even come to light that the police was working with Patriot Prayer to coordinate the protests. And remember, Patriot Prayer was the group setting up sniper positions and the police did nothing to punish that nonsense.
Portland is allowing a Charllottesville style protest and violence to happen on a frequent basis and the city doing nothing about it is an enormous failure on their part.
I think this is one of those situations were the right and left could show some bipartisanship and condemn the far right and the far left violence. The proud boys or whoever they are don’t represent my beliefs and I am sure most people on the left don’t support Antifa.
It will get harder for people to defend these fringe groups on the right and left as the violence gets worse.
What misapplication? A person is free to cover their face in public all they want here. Heck one sect of one religion even requires their females to do so and they are legally free to do so.
This freedom of course does not extend to private businesses and certain facilities such as large airports and other security sensitive applications.
As for being untrackable thats a whole different issue.
Then either the mayor, the police chief, or individual officers (depending on who is responsible for the lack of action) need to be removed from their positions.