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“The only way to stop the violence in Democratic-led cities like Portland is by force!”: Donald Trump tweets, launching a tough attack on Portland Mayor Ted Wheleer just as the Mayor is giving a speech by Press on live TV about last night’s events. “Trump encourages violence,” Wheeler said.
“President Trump shouting ‘law and order’ ‘instigates violence. Enough!”: This is how the leader of the Democratic senators Chuck Schumer comments on the words of the US president, for whom to restore order in Portland and put an end to the protests need the use of force.
Meanwhile, Portland, Oregon, is increasingly a battlefield. For three months, since the wave of anti-racist protests over the death of George Floyd, the city on the west coast of the United States has been the scene of unrest. On Saturday night, however, the dead man escaped, after clashes that broke out between protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement and pro-Trump supporters who arrived in the city in hundreds of trucks and vans. A march that has invaded the streets of the center and organized by various organizations, some from the extreme right. The anger of the US president, who has been calling for the National Guard to be sent to Portland for weeks, erupts on Twitter: “The only way to restore order and stop the violence in cities led by the left like Portland is force!” . “Thus the heavyweight instigates violence”, the response of the mayor of Portland, Ted Wheleer, for whom Trump is carrying out “a fearsome and undemocratic campaign.”
It is precisely to an ultra-conservative and far-right group, the Patriot Prayer, which belonged to the victim last night, who was hit in the chest by a bullet. For him there was no escape, he died instantly. From the first reconstructions, the shooting would have started after a barrage of paintballs from the truck caravan of President Trump supporters was directed towards protesters on the street. In response to the vehicles, a dense throw of objects, stones, bottles, garbage cans would have come out. At a certain moment the tragedy of which both try to reconstruct the dynamics to identify those responsible. FBI agents are also investigating along with local law enforcement agencies. But the real concern now is that the degenerate situation in Portland for weeks may spiral out of control, with a veritable war between opposing factions.
Thus, two months after the presidential elections of November 3, the electoral campaign runs the risk of reaching levels of tension never seen in the recent history of the United States. After all, the events in Portland come at a time when the country is experiencing a new wave of protests against racism and violent police. It was triggered by the Jacob Blake case in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Donald Trump will go here on Tuesday: but, at least according to the official agenda so far released by the White House, not to meet the family of the African American who was fired seven shots in the back by an agent, but to bring solidarity to the forces of order. Those “hero policemen” committed to opposing the plan of anarchists and antifa whose objective, according to the magnate, is to set fire to North American cities and make him lose at the polls. “The president should not come to Kenosha, it is not what we need now,” said Wisconsin Governor Mandela Barnes, according to whom the presence of the tycoon risks further fueling tensions. “If I am elected president, I will never use the National Guard for political reasons or for personal revenge. This is not ‘law and order’, this is using the military as a private militia violating the rights of citizens,” said the Democratic candidate by Joe Biden of the White House. And the United States, awaiting Election Day, is preparing to experience its warm fall.
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