The attempts by protesters/rioters/radical to attack drivers in their cars has escalated prompting one person in Portland to draw and fire a gun.
https://twitter.com/Villain_Phoenix/status/1281202255627120641
From KGW8:
Driver fires gunshots into the air after confrontation with demonstrators in downtown Portland
Video shows a driver firing six gunshots into the air during a confrontation with demonstrators in downtown Portland early Thursday morning.
The videos shared on social media show a white car in the middle of a group of people. The group was near the base of the now-removed Thompson Elk statue on Southwest Main Street just after 1 a.m. when the driver slowly moved away from the group, held up a handgun and fired five shots into the air.
This is where the driver is going to get fucked: warning shots.
Warning shots are not protected by the law.
Nevertheless, notice how once he drives away, having fired a gun, the mob does not chase after him the way they have in virtually every other mob vs. protesters video we’ve posted.
This is not a good scenario for the driver, but it clearly shows how this is getting worse.
The city of Portland has been a Antifa Cesspool from the beginning. Their Police Union just woke up and said enough is enough.
Apparently to be an elected Official in any of the large Democrat the most important qualification is a lack of spine and intestinal fortitude.
I’d seen this earlier, with an additional bit of detail (that I can’t find a like to at the moment): This particular driver was one of the protesters. He was also high or drunk, got mad at someone, and then decided to leave.
And they won’t be arrested, just like the Antifa thugs weren’t arrested after they came out of a bar and shot up a car.
It’s all a big game to most of these protesters.
They gather, yell and scream for a few hours. They get to break shit with no consequences, the pyromaniacs amongst them get to indulge their fetish. They intimidate the normal citizens, and when the citizens do not cower appropriately they get attacked by a mob. The only people that seem to get arrested or hassled are the people that fight back.
For a protester, life is good. You get to be part of something bigger than yourself, suddenly you feel you have real power, you are someone. For a teen or twenty year old, that must be intoxicating compared to their normal humdrum life of eat, sleep, get high, maybe go to a dead end minimum wage job. You suddenly are some one, you have the power (to destroy things).
Not only that, but you get to meet people, and have a common cause. The power of destroying shit is a great turn on. How many are doing it because it is a huge turn on, and they are doing it with someone they met at the protests? It has that whole Bonnie and Clyde, desperate, we are together against a soul crushing world vibe. How romantic!
What is the downside for the protesters?
How many have been arrested out of the thousands?
(The Feds are arresting some of them, but the arrests happen after the fact, coldly, remotely from the other protesters and protests.)
The local police, if they do anything at all, are just happy to push them away, oftentimes after they already started the vandalism, destruction, and arson. Arrests? Do you think their mayor and Police Chief want them arresting protesters? These same protesters are likeely Democrat Party activists. Tactically, The police are undermanned, and afraid if they arrest people, their force will be diluted, and then possibly overwhelmed. Besides, with their liberal prosecutors refusing to indict, or even request bail, the protesters will be out on the street before they can finish their reports. Not to mention IAD, or COPA, or some other police oversight committee full of cop haters will be happy to critique their use of force when subduing any protesters.
Eing a protester is easy, fun, and has lots of intangible rewards, and damn few immediate downsides. Why not keep protesting?
I’d like one of those big, pick-up-the-dumpster-in-front-dump-it-over-your-head trash trucks, if I lived in Sheat-land. I’d paint it in Soylent Green livery, hand out tracts entitled “To Serve Man”, and use it as my daily driver.
Should I get mobbed, drop the loader, and creep forward.
If any of them have seen the movie, they likely will move.
If not, after the first few scoops, they may recall pressing business, somewhere else.
Yup, also buy stock in laundries to clean soiled undies and trousers.
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