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The man is said to have killed a right-wing extremist during protests against racism and police violence. In an interview a few hours before his death, he said it was in self-defense.
An investigator picks up traces at the scene of the Michael Forest Reinoehl shooting. (September 3, 2020)
Photo: Nathan Howard (Getty Images)
Michael Forest Reinoehl, a suspected suspect in the shooting of a right-wing extremist in Portland, Oregon, has died, according to multiple US media reports, he was killed Thursday as police tried to arrest him. Of the “New York TimesAccording 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 many 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.
Sunday night the Right-wing extremist Aaron Danielson shot dead downtown, allegedly a supporter of US President Donald Trump. The suspect in the case was Reinoehl, who described himself as an antifa and also took to the streets during protests against racist police violence.
Four policemen are said to have shot Reinoehl
In an interview with «Vice“Who appeared a few hours before Reinoehl’s death, Reinoehl said 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 get stabbed. But I don’t have that,” Reinoehl says.
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 got into a car. “There were shots when they tried to arrest him,” 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.
