A video posted on social media Thursday shows a heavily armed anarchist activist protest in Portland, Oregon, holding up a man in his truck at gunpoint.
After the man breaks through the activists, they tackle him to the ground and begin to assault him.
The video was originally posted by a radical left-wing activist’s Twitter account Durham Operations. It later went viral amassing over half a million in views after being reposted by One America News Network’s Jack Posobiec.
“You better f***ing not! You better f***ing not! You better f***ing not!” one of the numerous activists, gun-in-hand, yells at a man in a red truck. “Put your f***ing gun down! Put your f***ing gun down!”
A little after 1pm, a man decided to run his truck through the weekly Justice For Patrick Kimmons March, then got out of his truck with a gun before he was disarmed by volunteer security. https://t.co/SyYNJLKI0e
— We Out Here Magazine (@weoutherenet) May 6, 2021
Video then shows the elderly man in a brown jacket being surrounded by at least a dozen armed activists. They begin to assault the man before eventually shoving the man into his truck causing him to fall to the pavement. The man pulls out his handgun to defend himself which causes the crowd of “anarchists” to swarm the man to the ground.
Earlier this month the Portland Police Department (PPD) and the FBI are investigating a video message by the left-wing Antifa activists threatening the city of Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler.
Here’s the transcript of the message:
Hello. We come to you as a small collective within the anarchist and antifascist community and I speak for the whole. As each individual may carry different ideologies and beliefs about how things could or will be accomplished, we hope with this message to simply convey a few points that are commonly agreed upon within this community.
The mayor of this city is undeserving of his position. He has made it abundantly clear that windows to him are more important than human lives. But we are not just challenging the idea of having Ted as a mayor. We are challenging the idea of having mayors at all. We want abolition. Abolition is absolute. If peaceful marches, speeches and voting were enough to bring about a goal, then we would have already been there. Window smashing and riots are a necessary escalation when those in power have proven that they are unwilling to listen and have made the choice to ignore you. We are moving with a sense of urgency because not only is the system destroying us, it is destroying the very planet that we live on.
This movement encompasses the very liberation of all those oppressed by the system whether it be black, indigenous, Hispanic, etc. Nobody owns this movement, and wanting to or trying to claim ownership of this movement just leads to more division, which is counterproductive to all of our goals. We are on the same side though, and the more time we spend fighting each other, the less energy we have to fight the true enemy. So let’s start local with our own city’s failed leadership.
Ted, we are asking for the last time that you resign. If you ignore this message outright, the destruction to your precious way of life is going to escalate. Blood is already on your hands, Ted. The next time it may just be your own.
