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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 11:58 AM Oct 2020

New eyewitness accounts:Feds didn't identify themselves before firing on Portland antifa shooting ..

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/13/new-eyewitness-accounts-feds-didnt-identify-themselves-before-firing-on-portland-antifa-shooting-suspect/

New eyewitness accounts: Feds didn’t identify themselves before firing on Portland antifa shooting suspect

By Conrad Wilson (OPB) and Bryan Denson (ProPublica)
Lacey, Wash. Oct. 13, 2020 4:19 p.m.

With no body cameras or surveillance footage, local law enforcement deputized as U.S. Marshals have given conflicting accounts.

Late summer sunshine bathed a working-class neighborhood in suburban Olympia, Washington, on the first Thursday afternoon in September as Michael Forest Reinoehl left the Tanglewilde Terrace Townhomes, climbed behind the wheel of his silver Volkswagen station wagon and tossed a couple of travel bags onto the passenger seat.

It was Reinoehl’s fifth day on the run. Hours earlier, prosecutors in Portland, Oregon, had charged the self-described antifascism activist with second-degree murder in the Aug. 29 shooting death of Patriot Prayer supporter Aaron “Jay” Danielson, and a team of federal fugitive hunters armed with an arrest warrant gathered to plan a takedown at the nearby Lacey Police Department.

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New eyewitness accounts:Feds didn't identify themselves before firing on Portland antifa shooting .. (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2020 OP
it was a pure hit, ordered by Trump, delivered by Barr Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #1
there are some inconsistencies between this story and some other reporting. Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #2

Grasswire2

(13,693 posts)
1. it was a pure hit, ordered by Trump, delivered by Barr
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 12:06 PM
Oct 2020

Trump has even bragged about it in those terms.

An extra-judicial assassination.

Grasswire2

(13,693 posts)
2. there are some inconsistencies between this story and some other reporting.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 12:15 PM
Oct 2020

Unfortunately, we likely will never know the truth of the matter because of Trump's interference.

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