By Madeline Holcombe, Shawn Nottingham, and Eric Levenson
Get this he has a "Go Fund Me" page (click here) If you have to work then contribute to your favorite violent activist.
Police officials (click here) identified the man fatally shot Saturday night in downtown Portland, Oregon, amid clashes between pro-Trump groups and left-wing protesters as Aaron J. Danielson of Portland.
Police said Danielson died at the scene of a wound to the chest. He was positively identified by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office, the Portland Police Bureau announced in a statement.
The far-right group Patriot Prayer, which has previously clashed with left-wing demonstrators, mourned Danielson's death.
"(H)e had a huge heart," group organizer Joey Gibson said on his Facebook page. "God bless the life he lived."...
He was a supporter of "Patriot Prayer" (click here) a White Supremacist organizer.
No Republican or Democrat should be supporting violence. We know there are states that have issues of violence with these extreme-right groups.
...Patriot Prayer is a far-right group active in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past three years, the group has hosted and promoted rallies in progressive cities like Portland, frequently engaging in violence against their political opponents. Patriot Prayer rallies regularly include the Proud Boys, a hate group, and various antigovernment extremist groups. In 2018, the FBI included the Washington-Oregon Proud Boys during a presentation to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office on “domestically inspired acts of violence.” The FBI advised, “Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington,” a report from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office stated....
Clark County Sheriff’s Office - Law enforcement DEPENDS on the FBI to combat violence and terrorism. If Republicans want to make enemies of the FBI then they don't care about the USA Constitution or peace and tranquility in the USA. The FBI is one of the most valuable "on the ground" intelligence services in the world.
President Biden is using the intelligence services appropriately. Recently, he stated there was only minimal to moderately reliable information about Russia using local terrorists to assassinate American soldiers. There was no exaggeration in his statements.
Intelligence agencies are vital to the USA's democracy. It is how this country monitors and eliminates dangers. Republicans attacking USA intelligence does not believe in democracy or practicing it.
The only thing that bothers me about this case is the fact Trump issued orders to form a federally funded task force. Reinoehl was not simply added to the Most Wanted by the FBI, he was targeted to be found.
My understanding is that the task force consisted of US Marshals (click here). Congress needs to investigate this issue and decide if that was an appropriate use of the US Marshals. Any law enforcement agency should be taking orders from its commanders. This was a group of US Marshals giving the assignment to find one particular American. I find that more than upsetting. I don't mind that Reinhoehl was found. It is unfortunate he was killed, but, what does bother me is that other than the murder of a White Supremacist sympathizer he was not a danger to the country. It is worrisome to realize one particular American was hunted down and killed. That is a problem the USA Congress needs to address.
By Conrad Wilson
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office (click here) announced Wednesday it has completed its seven-month investigation of a federally deputized task force that shot and killed Portland activist Michael Forest Reinoehl last summer....
...The incident took place at an apartment complex in Olympia, where Reinoehl had been on the run for his suspected role in the shooting death of a pro-Trump demonstrator in Portland days earlier. Surveillance footage of that shooting obtained by OPB shows Reinoehl seeming to initiate contact with 39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson outside a parking garage....
...After Danielson died, Reinoehl fled Oregon.
While the investigation is complete, the sheriff’s office has not yet released the full report. On Wednesday, investigators released a two-page statement with some of their findings.
The Washington State Patrol Crime Lab matched a .380 casing found in Reinoehl’s vehicle after the police shooting to the .380 pistol in his possession. Reinoehl was the only person with a .380 caliber weapon on the scene, according to the investigator managing the case, Lt. Cameron Simper.
“The casing to that was found inside his vehicle in a position that would be consistent with him firing out that window,” Simper said.
Reinoehl did have a loaded .380 pistol on him when he was killed, but it was found inside his right front pants pocket. Despite that, investigators insist that, based on law enforcement and witness statements, they believe Reinoehl fired the round, was shot by police, and put his gun inside his pants pocket....
By Matt Perez
During a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, (click here) on Thursday, President Trump again praised the U.S. Marshals who shot and killed anti-fascist activist Michael Reinoehl, who was suspected of killing far-right supporter Aaron J. Danielson days earlier during a clash between protesters in Portland, adding that the officers "didn't want to arrest him."
While criticizing anti-racism protests in Portland, Trump spoke about Reinoehl, who was shot at with 37 rounds by a U.S. Marshal task force on September 3 in Olympia, Washington.
"We sent in the U.S. Marshals, took 15 minutes, it was over, 15 minutes it was over, we got him," Trump said.
The situation has been marred by conflicting reports, both from the officers and several eyewitnesses interviewed by the New York Times....
Trump used the US Marshals to carry out his politics. Fact.
