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Aug 9, 2021, 16 tweets

Downtown Portland: Far-right extremists groups and anti-fascists battled on the streets off for over an hour.

There were beatings, mace, and improvised firework explosives.

No police response.

A man with an assault rifle has been patrolling downtown Portland for over 17 minutes, police have driven by without stopping.

No police response.

The man carrying an assault rifle walked by a crowded bar in downtown Portland.

The man with the assault rifle has walked towards police and is now detained at the justice center.

A police officer tells this reporter: the man with the rifle called them, said he was being followed by a crowd.

I asked if police told the man to walk to justice center, the police officer nodded in the affirmative.

I am out of downtown.

8:59pm:

Far-right extremist groups, led by proud boy Tusitala "Tiny" Toese, close off an intersection to allow attendees of a Sean Feucht religious event to exit the waterfront.

Anti-fascists confront the far-right groups acting as security.

Proud boy Tusitala "Tiny" Toese directs men to form a line on a street outside a federal building.

Anti-fascists and far-right groups faced off without police or federal response.

proud boy Tusitala "Tiny" Toese tells a crowd of anti-fascists to throw more fireworks at him so he can take a swing.

For 21 minutes outside a federal building: Far-right groups shoot paintballs at anti-fascists, anti-fascist throw fireworks in return.

No police response.

Multiple times vehicles drove aggressively through crowds

As proud boys Tusitala "Tiny" Toese and his gorup exited, they launched Roman candles at anti-fascists.

A man walking around downtown with an AR-15 with a suppressor aims his weapon at journalist @PDocumentarians

A man walking around downtown with an AR-15 with a suppressor aims his weapon at an unarmed black man who tells him to keep waking.

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Correction: Portland police determined this was an air soft gun

opb.org/article/2021/0…

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