In case y’all were wondering, Portland has always been this way. Here’s a pic I took in 2021.
This was a particularly violent day in which the Proud Boys hosted a rally, originally scheduled for the waterfront but then moved to northeast Portland. Someone ended up shooting at antifascist counter-demonstrators downtown, and PB attacked people and destroyed several vehicles in a brawl.
This after the current president had told PB to “stand by”, and five years later pardoned many of them. Now the same president calls Portland “war ravaged”. It makes you wonder who created that impression in the first place.
