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Michael Forest Reinoehl, a suspected suspect in the shooting of a right-wing extremist in Portland, Oregon, has died and, according to various US media reports, was killed on Thursday (local time) while police were trying to arrest him. Of the New York Times According to the 48-year-old, he tried to flee from the police, whereupon he was shot.
In the US, around 1,000 people are killed by police officers each year, a disproportionately large number of them being people of color. After the violent deaths of numerous unarmed African Americans, citizens have been protesting for months under the slogan “Black Lives Matter.” Protests against racism and police violence have occurred every day in Portland for the past three months. There have been repeated violent riots.
On Sunday night, right-wing extremist Aaron Danielson, allegedly a supporter of US President Donald Trump, was shot and killed in the city center. The suspect in the case was Michael Forest Reinoehl, who described himself as an antifa and also took to the streets during protests against racist police violence.
In an interview with Vice, who appeared a few hours before Reinoehl’s death, said Reinoehl that he had acted in self-defense. “I didn’t have a choice. I mean, I had a choice. I could have sat down and watched a Colored Person with whom I am friends got stabbed. But I didn’t,” Reinoehl said.
Four policemen are said to have shot Reinoehl
In addition to right-wing activist Danielson, two left-wing protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, were shot dead by an apparently right-wing teenager.
About Reinoehl’s death, Ray Brady of the sheriff’s office said in an interview that an emergency services team was looking for “a murder suspect” who had gotten into a car. “When they tried to arrest him, there were shots fired,” Brady said. Four officers pulled the trigger. His office heard that the suspect was carrying a weapon, but it is not yet clear if it existed and was fired upon.
