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0rganism

(23,962 posts)
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 02:10 PM Aug 2018

Weapon checks, bomb-sniffing police dogs to greet protesters Saturday in Portland

Source: The Oregonian

The Portland Police Bureau is preparing for a potentially violent showdown between dueling demonstrators Saturday, with a ramped-up law enforcement presence and checkpoints throughout the main protest area to screen for weapons.

Hundreds of people are expected to descend on downtown to oppose a march and rally organized by Joey Gibson and his right-wing group Patriot Prayer, which says it plans to bring supporters from around the country.

Those active in the movement nationwide say Gibson's so-called "March For Freedom" may become the largest right-wing demonstration in the U.S. this year.

Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/08/weapon_checks_bomb-sniffing_po.html

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Weapon checks, bomb-sniffing police dogs to greet protesters Saturday in Portland (Original Post) 0rganism Aug 2018 OP
Except of course for infiltrators. sandensea Aug 2018 #1
If you bring a weapon to a political protest pecosbob Aug 2018 #2
Some pics of counter protesters iluvtennis Aug 2018 #3
Very nice. H2O Man Aug 2018 #5
+1 jalan48 Aug 2018 #8
I hope these a'holes realize that hurting/killing one of those police dogs carries felony hlthe2b Aug 2018 #4
Let's just hope this is the biggest dud of all time Hulk Aug 2018 #6
I really wish our media would stop making these assholes celebrities. Initech Aug 2018 #7
Exactly. If no counter protestors showed up, the "march" would have no effect. 7962 Aug 2018 #12
Portland police audio feed, just some prep stuff now elmac Aug 2018 #9
"What if they had a war (protest) and nobody came?" Hortensis Aug 2018 #10
Live Stream janx Aug 2018 #11

sandensea

(21,650 posts)
1. Except of course for infiltrators.
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 02:17 PM
Aug 2018

They'll no doubt be waved right through, and shielded from anyone who catches on to them.

pecosbob

(7,542 posts)
2. If you bring a weapon to a political protest
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 02:36 PM
Aug 2018

you are engaging in a form of terrorism...doesn't matter which side you support. Crowd protection barriers should be erected by local law enforcement to protect protesters from vehicular terrorists like we saw in Charlotte.

hlthe2b

(102,329 posts)
4. I hope these a'holes realize that hurting/killing one of those police dogs carries felony
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 02:50 PM
Aug 2018

charges, just as killing a police (human) officer.

As much as I don't want to see human v human violence, neither do I want to see another police dogs hurt/killed.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
6. Let's just hope this is the biggest dud of all time
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 03:09 PM
Aug 2018

If the news didn’t play this up so much, it will probably be half of what it is.

I just hope nobody gets hurt.

Initech

(100,097 posts)
7. I really wish our media would stop making these assholes celebrities.
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 03:14 PM
Aug 2018

Nazis don't deserve the time of day, let alone any sort of media exposure to spew their bile and hatred.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
12. Exactly. If no counter protestors showed up, the "march" would have no effect.
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 04:12 PM
Aug 2018

They WANT protestors to attack them because it just proves their point.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. "What if they had a war (protest) and nobody came?"
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 03:23 PM
Aug 2018

Here in this deep south community people refused to be downtown during the tiny annual KKK parade. Hard on the businesses, but after a few events that made exactly the statement they didn't want, this county's KKKers gave up.

As an alternative, what I would like to see is what the press did not show in Charleston: The large number of people who lined the streets to quietly express their rejection. Photographers had to work on their camera angles to get only the aggressive ones in front who gave a better show.

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