Antifa Suspect in Fatal Portland Shooting Is Killed by Officers During Arrest - GOOD. It's about tine.

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your dysfunctional knuckle-dragging Democrat family rot in there
with you.

Law enforcement agents killed Michael Forest Reinoehl while
trying to arrest him, four officials said. He was being
investigated in the fatal shooting of a supporter of a far-right
group.

LACEY, Wash. — Law enforcement agents shot and killed an antifa
supporter on Thursday as they moved to arrest him in the fatal
shooting of a right-wing activist who was part of a pro-Trump
caravan in Portland, Ore., officials said.

The suspect, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was shot by officers
from a federally led fugitive task force during the encounter in
Lacey, Wash., southwest of Seattle, according to four law
enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.

Lt. Ray Brady of the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said in an
interview that the suspect being sought by the law enforcement
team had exited an apartment and got into a vehicle.

“As they attempted to apprehend him, there was gunfire,”
Lieutenant Brady said. He said four law enforcement officers
fired their weapons.

Lieutenant Brady said that the officers at the scene reported
that the suspect was armed, but that investigators had not
confirmed that as of early Friday morning.

An arrest warrant had been issued by the Portland police earlier
Thursday, on the same day that Vice News published an interview
with Mr. Reinoehl in which he appeared to admit to the Aug. 29
shooting, saying, “I had no choice.”

The Portland police had been investigating Saturday’s shooting
death of Aaron J. Danielson, one of the supporters of President
Trump who came into downtown Portland and clashed with
protesters demonstrating against racial injustice and police
brutality.

Mr. Reinoehl, who lived in the Portland area, had been a
persistent presence at the city’s demonstrations over recent
weeks, helping the protesters with security and suggesting on
social media that the struggle was becoming a war where “there
will be casualties.”

“I am 100% ANTIFA all the way!” he posted on Instagram in June,
referring to a loose collection of activists who have mobilized
to oppose groups they see as fascist or racist. “I am willing to
fight for my brothers and sisters! Even if some of them are too
ignorant to realize what antifa truly stands for. We do not want
violence but we will not run from it either!”

In the Vice interview, Mr. Reinoehl said he had acted in self-
defense, believing that he and a friend were about to be
stabbed. “I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend
of mine of color, but I wasn’t going to do that,” he said.

An hour before his fatal encounter with law enforcement, Mr.
Reinoehl was on the telephone with Tiffanie Wickwire, who was
helping him set up a GoFundMe page, Ms. Wickwire said in an
interview.

“We were talking about his kids and what to do for them if
anything happened to him,” she said, referring to his 17-year-
old son and 11-year-old daughter.

“Stay safe,” they told each other at the end of the call, she
said.

The task force that attempted to arrest Mr. Reinoehl included
members of the U.S. Marshals Service, the Lakewood Police
Department, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department and the
Washington State Department of Corrections.

The officers closed in on Mr. Reinoehl on a residential street
lined with townhomes and single-family houses in an
unincorporated area adjacent to Lacey, not far from the
Washington State capital of Olympia and about two hours north of
Portland.

Chad Smith, 29, who lives next door to the apartment where the
shooting occurred, said he was standing outside at about 6:45
p.m. when he saw two S.U.V.s race toward the complex. He heard
about a minute and a half of gunshots, he said, then saw a man
walking backward next to a white pickup truck, holding what
appeared to be a gun, and officers firing in his direction.

Trevor Brown, 24, who lives in a townhouse nearby, said he heard
several shots fired and saw as many as four police officers in
the road, who fired three or four times. He said he then saw Mr.
Reinoehl lying on the ground.

Jashon Spencer, who also lives not far away, also heard the
gunshots. “I just heard a whole bunch of pops,” Mr. Spencer
said. “I ducked. I thought they were shooting in my yard.”

He said that he went out and saw a bloodied man in the street,
and a video he took showed a law enforcement officer attempting
CPR.

After the shooting, several hundred protesters in Portland
gathered in front of a police station in a residential
neighborhood, chanting racial justice slogans as they have on
most nights since May, although the mood shortly before midnight
was relatively calm.

“There’s blood on your hands. You murdered Michael Reinoehl,”
someone had posted in the street outside a law enforcement
building. “Michael was murdered,” said another posting.

Later in the evening, police officers charged the crowd and took
one person into custody.

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.

Mr. Monson said the security designees have been trained to
approach potential agitators and politely ask them to leave.
They have also been trained on how to conduct physical removals
but are cautioned to try to avoid such measures because they can
cause things to escalate. Mr. Monson said Mr. Reinoehl would
often come over to discuss how to appropriately handle potential
agitators.

He sometimes ran into trouble, though. On July 5 during the
protests, Mr. Reinoehl was charged with resisting arrest and
possession of a loaded firearm in a case that was later dropped.
At the end of July, he showed a bloodied arm to a journalist
with Bloomberg QuickTake News and said he had been shot while
intervening in a fight.

The night when Mr. Danielson was shot began with a large crowd
of supporters of Mr. Trump gathering in the suburbs. They
planned to drive hundreds of vehicles carrying flags around the
highways of Portland, but many of them eventually drove
downtown, where protesters have been congregating regularly.
Once there, some Trump supporters shot paintballs into the
crowd, while people on the streets threw objects back at them.
Some fistfights broke out.

As evening turned into night, video appears to show Mr.
Danielson, who was wearing a hat with the insignia of the far-
right group Patriot Prayer, and Mr. Reinoehl on a street along
with a few other people. One person was shouting, “We’ve got a
couple right here.”

The man who captured video of the shooting, Justin Dunlap, said
it appeared that Mr. Danielson reached to his hip.

“He pulled from his side, just like he was pulling a gun,” Mr.
Dunlap said.

But in other video shot during the encounter, someone can be
heard flagging that Mr. Danielson was pulling out a can of mace.
“He’s macing you, he’s pulling it out,” the person warned.

It appeared from the video that Mr. Danielson sprayed mace just
as two gunshots could be heard, and Mr. Danielson went down.

Portland has seen escalating conflicts involving guns over the
past few weeks. On Aug. 15, a person allied with right-wing
demonstrators fired two shots from his vehicle, the authorities
said. A week later, during open clashes on the streets, another
right-wing demonstrator pulled out a gun.

Mr. Reinoehl said in his social media posts that he was once in
the Army, and hated it, although an Army official said no record
of service could be found under his name. In the Bloomberg
interview, Mr. Reinoehl described himself as a professional
snowboarder and a contractor.

His daughter was with him during the July interview, and he said
she had also been present during the encounter that left his arm
bloodied.

“The fact is that she is going to be contributing to running
this new country that we’re fighting for,” Mr. Reinoehl said.
“And she’s going to learn everything on the street, not by what
people have said.”

Mr. Reinoehl’s sister, who asked to remain anonymous because the
family has received numerous threatening phone calls in recent
days, said police officers asked if screenshots from videos from
the night of the shooting looked like her brother. She said they
did, but she said she had not seen him since three years ago,
when she said family members broke off contact with Mr. Reinoehl
after escalating conflicts.

At the beginning of June, in the days after George Floyd’s death
in Minneapolis triggered nationwide protests, Mr. Reinoehl began
posting about the need for change.

“Things are bad right now and they can only get worse,” he
posted on June 3. “But that is how a radical change comes about.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/michael-reinoehl-arrest-
portland-shooting.html