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Joshua Marquis's avatar

I have been trying cases for 40 years and took a lot of political heavy lifting get victims' statements allowed, but never in my career have I ever seen someone go so far off the boards as Beck did - in fact in my last death penalty case the trial judge refused to allow the family of the two people murdered to say anything in court!

The Portland Police ceded the streets to violent rioters, so Chief Day owes apologies for far more than their inability to police one demonstration.

In an unrelated observation, the obsession the "antifa" neofascists have with home ownership versus renting seems wildly inappropriate for people who celebrate diversity and claim to respect people regardless of whether they can afford the average of a $500,000 home in Portland!

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Richard Cheverton's avatar

If nothing else, Pam Fitzsimmons gets the award for bravery--a quality lacking in the rest of the town's press corps.

This case had a noxious odor from the get-go; media quickly memory-holed the antifa guy with the rifle, Mr. Bumpus (a nom de guerre?). Where's Bumpus now? And was there a proper forensic investigation of the shot that paralyzed "Deg?" Were any other Antifa armed? Did they fire any rounds? No one has ever seemed interested in finding out.

One of the other aspects that no one is interested in is the probable infiltration of Antifa by the FBI. They've got rats in just about every other organization--it's hard to believe they wouldn't have had "assets" within the most active street-fighters in the Floyd Riots era. Maybe Elon can sort that one out. (It's a sure bet that AGT Rayfield won't bother.)

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