My officers did nothing wrong in allowing teen gunman to walk away after killing 2 protesters, Kenosha police chief says
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/28/21406055/kyle-rittenhouse-jacob-blake-dan-miskinis-kenosha-shooting-police-protesters
Southpaw:
This thread traces an awful, inexorable descent into potentially deadly violence after a motorcade of Trump supporters decided to drive into Portland.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1299921997506531333
Cory Elia:
Driving through crowds and macing out of vehicles at SW 4th and Washington.
https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1299908378810957825
Justin Hendrix:
Times reporter shot with nonlethal projectiles by supporters of the President who have amassed as vigilantes in Portland, along with demonstrators
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1299916831306678274
Hoodlum 🇺🇸:
This is Terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse as a child. His parents should be charged as well.
https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/1298697814449573888
"We are scared as Black people in America."
LeBron James calls for justice following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1299919793882099713
PoorlyDrawnPolitics:
White supremacists getting a police escort before attacking random people with pepper spray, guns, and vehicles on the steers of Portland.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsPoorly/status/1299920528598335488
Trump Campaign Endgame: Foment Far Right Extremism and Incite Violence at Protests
http://electionado.com/canvas/1598750152881
If you don’t think this is all #TrumpViolence, you’re not paying attention
https://twitter.com/OagonyO/status/1299934779341594624
MeidasTouch:
The hateful #RadicalRight are destroying our cities and inciting violence at peaceful protests. This is Trump’s America.
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1299892126562410497
The MAGA Klan Line Up:
Trump’s Pathetic Alt Right
P🇺🇸nis Terrorists
https://twitter.com/NYinLA2121/status/1299932555228061696
Lesley McL:
Multiple vehicles are displaying a Confederate style flag, along with Trump and American flags.
https://twitter.com/Human42LM/status/1299874099808804864
Jon Favreau:
Trump has spent 4 years inciting violence that his supporters are once again carrying out. Like they did before the 2018 midterms. Like they did in El Paso. Like they did in Kenosha. Like they did tonight in Portland
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/1299929642602651649
Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸:
Trump’s mastermind of Portland’s MAGA hate brigade is from...Idaho.
https://twitter.com/DemWrite/status/1299938615909208067
Donald Trump likes to pretend he is the fireman when he is the arsonist
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1299768440916303872
Rex Chapman🏇🏼:
While Tucker Carlson is praising the Kenosha killer - here is his boy Kyle Rittenhouse sucker punching a GIRL a few months back...
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1299847372185403392
Keith Boykin:
Deadly Shooting in Portland After Pro-Trump Ralliers Clash With Protesters
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1299945588226748417
Defund PPB 🏁🐍:
Police watch #MissHolliLinn get hit with a truck and refuse to make a report, despite her actually having the crosswalk.
Police later claim to not have footage.
https://twitter.com/MacSmiff/status/1299903966659055617
Jay Rosen:
A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Facebook Moderators Said It Didn’t Violate Any Rules
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1299741777864212487
Fifty Shades:
MAGA voters in Portland committing casual acts of terrorism in Trump's America
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1299930293286195201
Keith Boykin:
Please stop telling Black people that all we need to do is comply with police orders and we'll be treated respectfully. That's a lie.
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1299941759368085505
Jay McKenzie:
Oh. Jeffrey Epstein pushed convicted fraudster Conrad Black to help kill a story on Epstein ... and Black did as he was told?
https://mstdn.social/@HernanHenry/104532266600946168
Jay McKenzie:
Replying to ConradMBlack:
How's Jeffrey Epstein? You're in his black book. Did you launder money together too?
https://mstdn.social/@HernanHenry/104532269305104316
Molly Jong-Fast🏡:
If there are any grownups left in the Republican Party they need to explain to trump that starting a civil war because his polling is bad is not a great idea.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1300053803891331078
Aaron Rupar:
Trump liked a tweet describing Kyle Rittenhouse, a supporter of his who is charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha, as “a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump”
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1300079126783688713
It wasn't always dark, divisive, and hateful.
https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1298938312128966656
MAGA: Christian fundraising site has raised over $220,000 for accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/christian-fundraising-site-has-raised-over-220000-for-accused-kenosha-shooter-kyle-rittenhouse
Department of Homeland acting Security Secretary #ChadWolf refuses to condemn #ViolentTrumpSupporters
under grilling by CBS host
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/dhs-chief-refuses-to-condemn-violent-trump-supporters-under-grilling-by-cbs-host-so-you-endorse-this
Fred Guttenberg:
RNC2016-2020
This Trump’s America
https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1299482232931987457
Private Joker, USMC:
Trump’s "innocent GOP victims" trying to run over pedestrians while throwing things and spraying bear spray at random people.
https://twitter.com/Infantry0300/status/1300062307595292672
Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈:
Portland started in the mall of a suburb, where armed Trump militia gathered and terrorized locals. They then rolled as a caravan to PDX, shot paintballs and pepper spray at passerby’s from their pick up trucks. Now someone is dead.
THREAD:
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1300060955498422272
MeidasTouch:
Donald Trump is inciting violence and holding our cities hostage for political gain. He doesn’t care about the death and destruction he causes along the way. Just another mafia-style quid pro quo shakedown. Truly vile and loathsome.
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1300020985920249862
Right Wing Watch:
Watch as someone who looks a lot like Trump-loving evangelical author and radio host Eric Metaxas sucker punches an anti-Trump protester following Trump's RNC speech last night.
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1299409697972387841
@HernanHenry It is disgusting that he is doing that. It is such a blatant display of racism and authoritarianism.
@HernanHenry
All evidence indicates Kyle was defending himself, yet the mainstream media has done their best to crucify him. That's why he's becoming a symbol
Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law