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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">For those who
don’t know, or don’t know the whole story, Saturday
night Feb. 19, a white supremacist fascist mass
shooter opened fire at an anti-police brutality
demonstration/vigil here in Portland, murdering one
person, seriously injuring four others. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I want to
share info because the story put forward by
authorities and the press has been a clear concerted
effort to continue the criminalization and targeting
of Black communities and those who protest and fight
for justice.</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Justice for
Patrick Kimmons, the organization that hosted the
event, went live on insta Monday night - you can watch
here: <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Keep up with
them on fb or Instagram – they said they will be
returning to regular demos/vigils soon.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">If you want
to donate to the victims and their families, here is
the gofundme link: <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The event,
hosted by Justice for Patrick Kimmons, is part of an
ongoing years-long Black-led vigil/demonstration space
to get justice for Patrick Kimmons, a 27-year-old
Black man murdered by Portland police in 2018. It is
led by his mother, Letha Winston, an incredible
community organizer and leader. The demo Saturday was
to fight for justice for Patrick Kimmons, for Amir
Locke, for Daunte Wright, tying together the local
history/present of resistance to police murdering
Black people with the national movements in support of
Black lives. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">All of this
is what I know and have learned from eyewitness
reports and continuing research (I wasn’t there, but
wanted to share as much of a counternarrative to my
community as possible):</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
ii04i59q">
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">JFPK is a
longstanding march/vigil happening weekly for years
started and led by Patrick’s mother. It is a space
created and held out of Black love and resistance. It
is a space rooted in Portland’s Black community and
its continuous and nonstop resistance to the
anti-Blackness structural violence here. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Before the
march began, 43-year-old Ben Smith approached four
unarmed women doing traffic safety (stopping traffic
so the march can cross streets safely). They were
around the corner and about a block away from where
others had gathered. Smith menaced and yelled at them,
calling them “violent terrorists,” said they were the
reasons for all the violence in Portland, called them
c*nts, then within a couple minutes, pulled out a gun
and shot multiple times, hitting them in multiple
places. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">He murdered
June Knightly, a 60 year-old white woman with a cane.
Knightly was a longstanding member of the Portland
activist community. She put her life on the line again
and again doing traffic safety, putting her body
between people asking for justice and those who would
destroy them. And apparently she did so courageously
again on Saturday night. One of the survivors said,
“Her name was June Knightly. She was a protector of
the innocent, an advocate for the vulnerable, a
beautiful person, and my dear friend. She died putting
herself between a dangerous man and three unarmed
women, including me.”</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Two others
who were shot are in critical condition, and one is
paralyzed. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Multiple
reports have said the shooting only stopped when one
of the folks doing security for the march shot Smith,
stopping him before he could murder and injure anyone
else. At the writing of this, Smith is still in the
hospital in critical condition. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">This horrific
white supremacist mass shooting was followed by a
conspiracy of support by the police, city government,
and local media (which national media parroted in the
scant articles they wrote about it). <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Over and over
again it was framed as a “confrontation” between “an
armed homeowner” and “armed protestors.” The “both
sides” framing allows responsibility to be partially
shifted to the people marching, rather than calling it
was it was, an unprovoked attack on a peaceful
gathering. Calling him a “neighbor” and worse
“homeowner” is a racist and classist frame that codes
him as a white man protecting his property and
neighborhood from invading rabble (Police chief Chuck
Lovell later said it was an unintentional “mistake” to
mislabel him as a homeowner). Media said Smith had no
political affiliation – more on that later but
absolutely false, and a blatant attempt to deny the
real motivations of this white supremacist. The
government and media continue to frame it as part of
the “tragic wave of gun violence” happening here in
Portland, which is racially coded language, and a
clear attempt to blame the Black community for this
attack, and to blame the larger defund/abolish police
movement when that couldn’t be farther from the truth
(the police’s behavior in this instance couldn’t more
clearly indicate why they should be immediately
defunded and abolished).</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The facts:</div>
<blockquote>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">- Ben Smith
was not a homeowner at all, and even if he was, that
had nothing to do with him leaving his house, going
down the street and murdering people who hadn’t
engaged with him at all</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">- He
collected and owned multiple guns (apparently
legally?) so any attempt to shift this to a
discussion of unregulated gun violence is a decoy</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">- He
attacked and murdered without provocation, even as
the traffic volunteers were trying to nonviolently
deescalate the situation</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">- He shot
people in the neck, in the face – this wasn’t firing
into the air to scare people, it was premeditated
murder and attempted murder. Smith shot to kill</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">- He has a
long history of white supremacist, fascist,
anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-homeless, anti-mask
sentiments as shown by his reddit account: <span><a
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">- The march
hadn’t even reached Smith’s house at all. It was
just the small group of traffic volunteers there in
preparation for the march coming by. Organizers of
the march said they were around the corner and down
the street, that they actually marched for less than
a minute before the shots were fired, had barely
left the sidewalk and hadn’t even started chanting
yet. The idea that Smith felt threatened or was
“protecting his home/community” is obviously asinine
on any level, but it even more so in this situation</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">There were so
many folks who saved lives that day, but all of them
were with the march - not a single one was with police
or government. Letha Winston called off the march the
minute shots were fired, stopping everyone before they
came close to him. The person doing security who
immobilized Smith saved countless lives, because who
knows how many more guns and bullets Smith would have
fired if he had been free to continue walking towards
the marchers. And street medics performed life-saving
aid for those shot, despite police interference and
harassment.</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Of course
that’s not the narrative told by Portland Police
Bureau (PPB), which from the instant it happened
seemed to be more intent on protecting Smith and
helping prepare his defense at trial than addressing
the people bleeding out on the street. PPB wouldn’t
even release his name or confirm if he was under
arrest or not. They did not even file charges against
until late Tuesday, Feb. 22 after immense outcry.
However, they did bring charges against the person who
stopped Smith’s rampage (though those were dropped
Feb. 22). The fact that the police charged the person
who stopped a white supremacist mass shooter days
before the mass shooter himself says everything you
need to know about the daily functioning and purpose
of police.</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">It wasn’t
police or even journalists who found out Smith’s name.
It was diligent and tireless independent researchers
and antifa investigators (and folks in the furry
community, which Smith had been pushed out of because
of his fascist racist statements – they have known he
would commit violence for years and tried multiple
times to sound the alarm: <span><a class="oajrlxb2
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) that not only found his name but very quickly found
mountains of evidence of his reactionary right wing
white supremacist beliefs, and his explicitly stated
desire to murder BLM activists and antifa. They even
found him speaking out in support of Kyle Rittenhouse,
clearly an inspiration for his horrific actions. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The only
reporting I’ve seen on this that has been worth
anything at all has been in the Portland Mercury, like
this story: <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In this
article, the PPB spokesperson said, "Unfortunately,
not all cases are simple. In some, a determination has
to be made of who is a suspect and who is a victim.
Cases can be fluid, and as additional facts are
learned, who is a victim and who is a suspect can also
change."</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I can’t
imagine a more blatantly brazen statement in light of
what has happened. In fact, the only people the police
have expressly blamed at this point are the person who
stopped Smith and the witnesses who refused to speak
to them and give information after the shooting. They
refused because they understood that the police are
there to provide cover and support for street level
white supremacist fascist violence, and that it is
inextricably linked to their institutional white
supremacist fascist violence. <br>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">PPB’s false
narrative and the media’s perpetuation of it was so
awful, it apparently prompted one of the shooting
survivors to share their name and identity in a New
York Times article (which said without them, the story
would only include the PPB version, which is just
awful and abusive journalism) so the survivor could
tell the real story. They did this knowing it would
make them a target of reactionary right wing violence
and doxing. But telling the truth was more important
to them than their safety:</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And, of
course, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler has done nothing
but further the “both sides” lie and the racist “gun
violence” false narrative. Wheeler has spent years
providing cover for the brutal and continual police
attacks against protests, against communities of
color, against the houseless community, and more. He
has spent years criminalizing dissent. He, in fact,
explicitly refused to take accountability for inciting
violence during last year’s Black Lives Matter/anti
police brutality protests when he said, “let’s make
them hurt a little” about folks fighting for justice.
At a press conference after the mass shooting, Wheeler
was unapologetic and said he did not regret saying it.
Wheeler has spent years providing first tacit support
for reactionary right wing violence from groups like
the Proud Boys, and has time and time again given them
free reign to terrorize and brutalize Black and Brown
working class communities and the entire city. (This
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Wheeler’s
statements on the shooting didn’t even mention the
victims, didn’t offer condolences at all, didn’t even
acknowledge the murder and maiming. At his press
conference Tuesday, Feb. 22 (3 days after the
shooting), he said he had not spoken to any of the
victims or the victims’ families. He had already gone
into planning how to weaponize this attack against
protestors, against people fighting for justice,
against Black communities. Other city council members
and government officials, by and large, have just
continued these same racist narratives. <br>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Tuesday Feb.
22 the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office
filed charges against Smith: one count of second
degree murder, four counts of attempted first degree
murder with a firearm, as well as four counts of
assault with a firearm. This is almost certainly and
almost solely because of footage shot by one of the
survivors that documented the attack. But the news
stories coming out after the charges are being filed
are slanted, with almost none mentioning his white
supremacist or fascist connections, or his previously
stated intent to murder BLM activists. They downplay
his aggressive threats, his verbal assaults, and
instead want to make sure we know that when Smith
physically attacked one of the volunteers, they pushed
him back, and then he started firing. Facts are not
objective, and when you leave out facts and include
others that skew the information, facts turn into
lies.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">As someone
who has been in movements for decades, as someone who
helps to organize another monthly vigil in honor of a
young Black man murdered by Portland police (Justice
for Keaton Otis: <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1
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as someone who studies and teaches the racist history
of Oregon and the northwest, how we frame all of this
matters. It is literally life or death. This mass
shooting at a Black Lives Matter space, a space where
people gather to mourn the theft of precious Black
lives from our communities and demand there be no
more, could have happened anywhere. This collaboration
of individual white supremacist fascists working with
and being protected by police and government is
unfortunately not new and not geographic-specific. <br>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And also, the
fact that it happened here in Portland, in Oregon,
grows out of the history of this place’s founding as a
racist white utopia, out of its brutal exclusion of
Black people, out of its theft and destruction of
indigenous land and indigenous lives. Please don’t
ask, “How can this happen in a liberal place like
Portland?” That is the same question people across the
country asked me in 2017 when Jeremy Christian
attacked two teenaged Black young women, and then
murdered two people and seriously injured the third
who tried to stop him. This is the culmination of
everything this place was built on. And it is the
culmination of the neo-liberal racist response of the
current Portland/Oregon government. This is not an
aberration, this is business as usual. This is the
system working exactly as it was intended.</div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The fact that
people gathered peacefully to say, “Give us justice
for our stolen loved one,” to demand, “Stop murdering
Black people,” only to be targeted and murdered and
maimed, and to have the police applaud and the
government shift blame to them – that is absolutely
unsurprising and that doesn’t make it any less
devastating or traumatizing. <br>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">But the fact
that Justice for Patrick Kimmons exists as a weekly
space, an ongoing demand, for years, led by his
courageous and tireless mother Letha Winston, that is
also born of this place. Black communities in
Portland, in Oregon, have fought just as tirelessly
for justice as Letha fights for her son, as she fights
for Amir Locke and Daunte Wright and everyone else who
has been stolen from our communities. The fact that
JFPK is planning to continue their gatherings even
after this horrific and painful attack shows the
unending commitment to justice that exists here. That
commitment, the courage of June Knightly and all
others who found themselves in a hail of bullets and
their first and only instinct was to protect others –
that must be at the heart of how we tell this story,
and all the work we do from here on out. In the name
of all of those stolen from us.</div>
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