Far-right rally, counterprotests face off in US city of Portland
5 years, 7 months ago

Far-right rally, counterprotests face off in US city of Portland

Al Jazeera  

President Donald Trump says far-right rally being closely monitored amid fears of clashes with counter-demonstrators. Flag-waving members of the far-right Proud Boys and Three Percenters groups began gathering on Saturday morning for their rally labelled “End Domestic Terrorism” – some wearing body armour and helmets. Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds, reporting from Portland, said that authorities plan to “smother” the rally with many police officers to keep the two sides apart and hopefully avoid any violence. Regarding Trump’s tweet, Reynolds added: “It’s noteworthy that the president is using his bully pulpit to attack the anti-fascists even though just two weeks ago, a white supremacist killed 22 people in an avowedly racist attack in El Paso.” It isn’t clear what Trump meant in his tweet as there is no mechanism for the government to declare a domestic organisation a terror group. A statement on the local Rose City Antifa website accused the far-right groups of planning “to bring their branded political violence to our streets,” and encouraged people “to defend Portland against far-right attack”.

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