North Portland Looks Like ‘War Zone’ After Antifa Allowed to Rampage For Hours By Debra Heine
Parts of Portland Oregon look like a “war zone” after a mob of about 200 antifa militants went on a destructive rampage late Thursday night into early Friday morning.
While the police stood by and watched, according to Portland-based journalist Andy Ngo, the antifa rioters tried to set up an “autonomous zone” outside the Portland Police North Precinct using barricades and stolen property.
“They’re occupying the space & trying to recreate another autonomous zone like the one they did outside Ted Wheeler’s condo,” he reported on Twitter. “A separate mob is demonstrating downtown.”
Throughout the early morning hours, the agitators started fires, smashed windows, looted and vandalized buildings. Militants also broke into a bank and also set fire to the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct, according to Oregon Live.
After the antifa militants fired mortars and paintballs at officers, resulting in multiple injuries, Portland police finally administered CS gas to disperse them, KATU News reporter Dan McCarthy reported. Only four people were arrested.
The radicals were allowed to do an extensive amount of property damage before they were shut down.
Ngo shared some of the appalling images of the riot on Twitter.
Businesses in Portland have been massively damaged by violent riots in recent weeks.
Earlier this week, the Portland Business Alliance released a statement claiming that “the downtown area has lost more than $23 million – $4 million from physical damages, and $18 million in lost revenue.”
As Ngo noted on Twitter, it is antifa’s “stated strategy” to harm the economy through violent riots (or “protests” as the corporate media calls them).
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