Violence at Portland’s ICE facility is coming from one side: the officers
“Despite mixed messages from Trump, on Sept. 30, he told military leaders that Portland looked like “World War II” and a White House press release said that ‘the Radical Left’s reign of terror in Portland ends now,’ implying that the troops will be intervening. That press release also advanced the conspiracy theory [politicalresearch.org] that “antifa,” which Trump is now attempting to label a terrorist organization, is behind a litany of various crimes and protest activities that he believes are “premeditated anarchy that has scarred the city for years.” This has been a rallying cry for the right since the racial justice and anti-police brutality protests of 2020, in which Portland’s participation—part of a long tradition of activism in the city—is framed as a sign of society-destabilizing violence and a pretext for state intervention.”