The far-right vigilante received a life sentence for shooting four protesters despite police efforts to protect him.
essentially suggesting that Smith was defending his home from a riotous mob.
In a statement released ahead of the sentencing, the survivors of Smith’s assault thoroughly refuted the police narrative:,” they wrote. The confrontation was entirely one-sided. “The gunman . . . aggressively approached a calm group of women . . . more than 100 feet away from his residence. His victims, who had training and experience with de-escalation, urged him to depart peacefully. Smith shot them at point blank range.
“did not immediately adjoin the area where the shooting took place, nor any area where protesters gathered.” The racial justice march, which so angered him, was “more than two full blocks away, out of eyesight, and separated from the scene by a fenced baseball stadium, a line of trees, and a field.” The women he attacked were not themselves protesting, but waiting to help direct traffic. And finally, “At the outset of the attack, Smith was the only ‘armed’ individual.
The cops’ misstatements concerning the details of this case, and their framing of the events so as to both blame the victims and give Smith the best opportunity to claim self-defense, cannot be understood as simple errors or innocent mistakes. They are instead part of a decades-long pattern of the Portland Police ignoring, excusing, or facilitating violence from the right, while simultaneously criminalizing the political left.
This bias was most evident during the Trump years, as far-right groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys made
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