A report in the Seattle Times claims that an “anti-fascist” group, the Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front, is behind a month-long period of violent unrest in downtown Portland, Oregon, and is supplying and arming protesters who have staged nightly attacks on law enforcement officials in an effort to emancipate and occupy a federal courthouse.
Portland mayor Ted Wheeler who, like Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, initially supported the protests, believing them to be connected to national anti-police brutality protests that sprung up in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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