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Yet another massive Trump Truck rally outside of Portland and other right-wing rallies around the state results in violence, as videos show right-wing hate group members chasing down anti-fascist activists with bats and mace while police look on.
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Video shot by journalists at the scene showed armed militia members and Trump supporters charging a group of anti-fascist counter-protesters, overhwhelming on with strikes from a bat.
A woman then maced the fallen activist on the ground.
This kind of violence is typical for the running battles between Portland protesters and right-wing militias that have raged this entire summer, but the police response in Salem on Monday evening was particularly telling.
According to a @nytimes reporter on the scene, cops quote “pleaded” with right wing groups to move their lines back toward the designated area for their demonstration.
They did make some arrests of right-wingers who singled out and attacked a counter-protester in the park, but largely refrained from deploying the same aggressive, warlike tactics against the Proud Boys and militias that they’ve used for months now against BLM protesters.
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