Fatal shooting as Trump supporters and BLM protesters clash in Portland
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Portland — One person was fatally shot late on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as President Donald Trump supporters clashed with Black Lives Matters groups, reports said.
A widely shared video appears to show the incident from a distance, in which two shots are fired in a small crowd. An AP freelance photographer said he saw medics working on the body of the victim, who appeared to be a white man.
The victim was wearing a hat with the logo of Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group, AP said. A caravan of 600 vehicles transporting Trump supporters left the area at about 8.30pm, and gunshots were heard 15 minutes later, AP added, citing the police.
While the identity of the victim has not been publicly released, both sides of the political divide were quick to blame each other for encouraging the violence that led to the killing.
Trump unleashed a tweetstorm on Sunday accusing Democratic leaders of cities and states of not controlling protests and saying the National Guard has and would do so. Chad Wolf, the president’s nominee to head the department of homeland security, said “all options are on the table” in terms of again sending troops even if local officials do not request them.
“The way you stop the rioting is surge manpower and resources, citizen soldiers, National Guard, and you overwhelm the number of protesters,” Republican senator and homeland security committee chair Ron Johnson said in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
The campaign for Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, said he would travel the country this week to address the recent violence.
The clash in Portland, the site of the nation’s most enduring recent protests, came amid a tumultuous week as demonstrators gathered again on Saturday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a black man.
“There were seven bullets put in my son’s back. ... Hell yeah, I’m mad,” said Jacob Blake snr, the father of the victim. “What gave them the right to think that my son was an animal? What gave them the right to take something that was not theirs? I’m tired of this.”
The Kenosha protests started after a police officer in the southeastern Wisconsin city shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last Sunday. Two nights later, two protesters were killed and a third was injured in a subsequent shooting. A hearing to extradite the 17-year-old suspect in ...
A widely shared video appears to show the incident from a distance, in which two shots are fired in a small crowd. An AP freelance photographer said he saw medics working on the body of the victim, who appeared to be a white man.
The victim was wearing a hat with the logo of Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group, AP said. A caravan of 600 vehicles transporting Trump supporters left the area at about 8.30pm, and gunshots were heard 15 minutes later, AP added, citing the police.
While the identity of the victim has not been publicly released, both sides of the political divide were quick to blame each other for encouraging the violence that led to the killing.
Trump unleashed a tweetstorm on Sunday accusing Democratic leaders of cities and states of not controlling protests and saying the National Guard has and would do so. Chad Wolf, the president’s nominee to head the department of homeland security, said “all options are on the table” in terms of again sending troops even if local officials do not request them.
“The way you stop the rioting is surge manpower and resources, citizen soldiers, National Guard, and you overwhelm the number of protesters,” Republican senator and homeland security committee chair Ron Johnson said in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
The campaign for Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, said he would travel the country this week to address the recent violence.
The clash in Portland, the site of the nation’s most enduring recent protests, came amid a tumultuous week as demonstrators gathered again on Saturday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a black man.
“There were seven bullets put in my son’s back. ... Hell yeah, I’m mad,” said Jacob Blake snr, the father of the victim. “What gave them the right to think that my son was an animal? What gave them the right to take something that was not theirs? I’m tired of this.”
The Kenosha protests started after a police officer in the southeastern Wisconsin city shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last Sunday. Two nights later, two protesters were killed and a third was injured in a subsequent shooting. A hearing to extradite the 17-year-old suspect in ...