WE ARE
FIGHTING
.
TREVOR: TWO PROTESTS SCHEDULED
FOR THE SAME DAY END IN CLASHES
AND MULTIPLE ARRESTS IN DOWNTOWN
PORTLAND.
WELCOME TO KOIN 6 NEWS AT 11:00
.
I AM TREVOR AULT.
ANTIFA PROTESTERS BATTLED IT OUT
WITH MEMBERS OF PATRIOT PRAYER
AND IF THIS FEELS FAMILIAR IT
SHOULD.
TODAY'S EVENTS STEM FROM A
PROTEST THAT HAPPENED A YEAR AGO
WHEN THOUSANDS OF PRO-TRUMP
DEMONSTRATORS AND COUNTER
PROTESTERS CONVERGED IN DOWNTOWN
PORTLAND.
LAST YEAR TRUMP SUPPORTERS
PLANNED A FREE SPEECH RALLY
DOWNTOWN BUT FOLLOWING THE
DEADLY MAX STABBING JUST A FEW
WEEKS BEFORE MAYOR WHEELER
INSTRUCTED FEDERAL AGENTS TO
REVOKE THE RALLY'S PERMIT THE
-- PERMIT.
THE GROUP SHOWED UP ANYWAY AND
SO DID COUNTER PROTESTERS.
ULTIMATELY POLICE USED SMOKE
BOMBS AND RUBBER BULLETS TO
DISPERSE CROWDS.
THEY CONFISCATED SEVERAL WEAPONS
AND A TOTAL OF 14 PEOPLE WERE
ARRESTED.
THAT WAS THEN.
THIS IS NOW.
OUR JENNIFER DOWLING WAS AT
TODAY'S PROTESTS.
HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO LAST
YEAR'S EVENT?
JENNIFER: TREVOR, THERE WEREN'T
AS MANY PROTESTERS THERE ON
EITHER SIDE.
SO THE NUMBERS ARE DOWN BUT
THOSE WHO WERE THERE REALLY GOT
INTO IT.
IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO SEPARATE
ANTIFA AND THE PATRIOT PRAYER
GROUP FROM CLASHING.
THE PEPPER SPRAY WAS FLYING AND
SOMETIMES BOTTLES AND OTHER
OBJECTS GOT TOSSED INTO THE
CROWD.
SCUFFLES BROKE OUT PERIODICALLY
SOMETIMES INVOLVING BACKPACKS,
HATS AND FLAGS.
ON THE PATRIOT PRAYER SIDE THIS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH RALLY WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE A SEND OFF FOR
TINY TOESE.
HE WAS ARRESTED DURING A SCUFFLE
WITH ANTIFA AT LAST YEAR'S
EVENT.
LAST THING WE WANT IS FOR
TINY TO END UP GOING TO JAIL
BEFORE HE HEADS HOME.
JENNIFER: A FIGHT INTERRUPTED
THIS AND OUT OF A MASS OF
SHOVING TINY APPEARED.
HE JUST FINISHED WASHING PEPPER
SPRAY OUT OF HIS EYES OUT WHEN
WE CAUGHT UP WITH HIM TO ASK
ABOUT HIS TRIP HOME TO THE
SAMOAN ISLANDS.
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE BACK FOR
THIS LAST RALLY?
IT IS SAD.
WE'VE BEEN TRYING THE WHOLE TIME
WE'VE BEEN COMING INTO PORTLAND
EVERYTHING'S BEEN GOOD.
THE PROBLEM HERE IN PORTLAND IS
THE HIGHER-UPS IN PORTLAND
STARTING WITH THE MAYOR, THE
COUNCIL, EVERYBODY.
THEY NEED TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT AND
START STANDING UP AGAINST THESE
EXTREMISTS.
JENNIFER: TINY WAS NOT DETAINED
THIS YEAR BUT THERE WERE PEOPLE
TAKEN AWAY IN CUFFS.
THIS MAN WITH BLOOD STREAMING
DOWN HIS FACE.
AND ANOTHER MAN WAS PREVENTED
FROM ENTERING THE PARK AFTER
OFFICERS FOUND A 3-INCH POCKET
KNIFE ON HIM.
HE WAS ALSO TAKEN AWAY.
YOU'RE CITING A LAW THAT
DOES NOT EXIST.
WHAT AM I BEING DETAINED FOR
?
JENNIFER:
WE TALKED TO HIM AFTER
HIS RELEASE.
THEY SAID I WAS FAILING TO
COMPLY WITH A FEDERAL OFFICER
AND I WENT WITH THEM AND WE GOT
INTO A DISCUSSION AND NOW I'M
GOING TO APPEAR IN COURT WERE
SHIELDS IN THE CROWD.
-- IN COURT.
JENNIFER: POLICE CONFISCATED
WHAT WEAPONS THEY COULD.
THOSE PROTESTING PATRIOT PRAYER
TOLD US THAT ORIGINALLY THIS
STARTED AS A PROTEST AGAINST
POLICE.
THIS PROTEST WAS ABOUT POLICE
BRUTALITY AND THAT'S BEEN
PREVALENT IN MY LIFE.
WE CAME OUT HERE TO PROTEST
POLICE VIOLENCE AND THEY CAME
OUT HERE TO TALK US.
JENNIFER: THEN IT BECAME ABOUT
TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE
OTHER GROUP.
THEY ARE THE EPITOME OF TRUMP
SUPPORTERS.
THE GROUP OVER THERE
DEFINITELY CHANGED THE
ATMOSPHERE.
FASCISM LOSES ALWAYS AND THEY
HATE EVERYBODY AND PROMOTE
RACIST IDEOLOGIES AND THEY ARE
HOMOPHOBIC.
TRUMP LOVING SLAVE TO THE
GOVERNMENT.
JENNIFER: AS FOR TINY THOUGH
HE'S LEAVING.
HE SAID HE WILL BE BACK.
I WILL BE LEAVING FOR THE
ISLANDS BUT BELIEVE ME WHEN I
SAY I WILL BE BACK.
SO BIG BOY.
TINY'S STORY JUST STARTED AND IT
AIN'T ENDING SOON WE'RE GOING TO
COME OUT HERE WITH MY BROTHERS
.
WE'RE GOING TO HIT PORTLAND AND
WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT HARD.
JENNIFER: TINY SAID THAT HE
COULD BE BACK IN AS EARLY AS TWO
WEEKS FROM NOW, AND OF COURSE
JOEY GIBSON IS STILL AROUND HE'S
ANOTHER FOUNDING MEMBER SO I
EXPECT MORE OF THESE RALLIES AND
CLASHES.
TREVOR: WHERE IT DIES DOWN BUT