Link to article.

Sharp contrast in their attitudes toward this hero and the 17-year-old Nazi but I don’t think anyone here will be surprised.

  • chad1234
    8·
    4 years ago

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/michael-reinoehl-arrest-portland-shooting.html NYT article description of surrounding events

    As part of the protesters’ security team during the demonstrations, Mr. Reinoehl’s role included intercepting potential agitators and helping calm conflicts, fellow protesters said.

    “Nightly, he would break up fights,” said Randal McCorkle, a regular at the demonstrations who said he became close friends with Mr. Reinoehl as they wore on.

    “He wanted change so badly,” he said. His death, he said, would likely inspire others to continue the movement for police reform. “I was going to say radicalize, but galvanize is a better word,” he said. “Honestly, I’m going to try to step into his shoes.”

    Reese Monson, a leader in the local protest movement who also helps organize security, said all the people who helped with security in Portland, including Mr. Reinoehl, were trained on de-escalation.

    “He was excellent at that,” Mr. Monson said.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/09/04/portland-protest-shooting-video/

    A descriptio of events reconstructed from videos.

    a commenter:

    Just to be clear, he was not killed while the police were attempting to take him into custody in Thurston County Washington. He never fired a weapon at the officers. He was in a car and they blocked his passage and fired several times into the vehicle. Then he exited and attempted to run away and was shot multiple times by automatic weapons from multiple directions. This was the execution of someone who killed an armed and violent Trumpster extremist in self defense. He was hunted down and executed. Dylan Roof killed multiple unarmed BLACK people in a church and was arrested, then fed dinner and only then taken to jail. Our national original sin may yet be our undoing. BLACK LIVES MATTER!

    https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article245486590.html

    “I am 100% anti-facist,” Reinoehl said in the Vice interview. “I’m not a member of Antifa. I’m not a member of anything. I hate to say it, but I see a civil war right around the corner. That shot felt like the beginning of a war.”

    • chad1234
      4·
      4 years ago

      https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/portland-shooting-michael-reinoehl.html
      Description of the surveillance footage

      In an affidavit from Mr. Reinoehl’s arrest warrant, released Friday, authorities describe surveillance footage showing Mr. Reinoehl and Mr. Danielson first walking along a sidewalk, apparently without confrontation. Mr. Danielson was already carrying a can in one hand — possibly mace — and what appears to be an expandable baton in the other.

      The footage shows Mr. Reinoehl turning into a parking garage, reached into a pouch or waistband, and waited for Mr. Danielson and a friend to pass, according to the documents. Authorities said Mr. Reinoehl followed the two men as they crossed the street in the seconds before the shooting

      this is highly suspicious and suggests intentional targeting of this individual

  • some_random_commie
    8·
    4 years ago

    I was wondering how they found him out as a suspect, then I read he was on video from cell phones of bystanders, and presumably the police got these phones and just ran an image of his in some facial recognition software to figure out who he was. I was able to find a video online showing someone in a mask that was claimed to be a suspect, because the video was taken at the location where the guy was shot, but it only had a few thousand views, and was posted days later.

    What’s weird is this part of his story before he died:

    Since the shooting, Reinoehl said he’s gone into hiding, and moved his children to a safe place after shots were fired into his house just hours after the incident. “They’re out hunting me,” he said. “There’s nightly posts of the hunt and where they’re going to be hunting. They made a post saying the deer are going to feel lucky this year because it’s open season on Michael right now.”

    Given that it is highly doubtful random right-wingers just happened to recognize the person from any video posted online, one can only conclude law enforcement did the facial recognition search quickly, and then immediately passed the information to people who would be given free reign to fire bullets into his house.

    Edit: Vice interview says he was fingered that night on 4chan as a suspect, not sure how.

    Edit2: Story about the 4chan thing, still don’t see how they could have identified him without access to some sort of police records regarding his neck tattoo.

    http://www.madnesshub.com/2020/08/4chan-users-appear-to-have-identified.html

      • some_random_commie
        5·
        4 years ago

        Although I wouldn’t be surprised if social media-scraping facial recognition stuff is available to non-cop users on the internet by now.

        A quick internet search reveals there are sites out there with large databases to search through, but none of them appear to be free, or even priced in a way that an individual could afford. I could be wrong though.

        People are saying he’s a cop-operation or something

        I’m pretty sure there are people paid to go to the chans and say everything is a false-flag, as it happens with literally everything.

              • TeethOrCoat
                3·
                4 years ago

                People are radicalizing incredibly quickly under the current economic and political conditions. Back in May, shortly after the first protests for George Floyd began, some CTH users reported seeing people they interacted with becoming radicalized. This could in fact just be one of those people.

  • SovietIntl
    5·
    4 years ago

    I really don’t think Michael is an opp. He certainly was trigger happy, not in a crazy way but in such a way that he’s ready to pull that trigger at moments notice. There’s already militia out there that the cops aren’t afraid to get support from so staging someone to take out the enemy doesn’t make much sense in the current climate where militias are openly shooting folk. Michael is a hero in my book.

  • chad1234
    4·
    4 years ago

    Yes its clear whose side the police are on

    However there are reasons to be suspicious of the whole thing, not definitively though. I’ve not heard of anyone previously publicly declaring they are “100% ANTIFA”. He suddenly said this and got the BLM neck tattoo a few months ago. does he equate antifa and BLM as being the same?..

    I suspect it may be a Boogalooo