Kate Brown (D) declared a state of emergency on Friday in anticipation of this weekend’s rally, which organizers expect to draw as many as 10,000 right-leaning activists to Portland, in addition to a sizable crowd of counter-protesters. Since then, the Proud Boys have been planning a “show of force” in Portland, per The Washington Post, which will take place Saturday afternoon. On August 29, Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a supporter of the far-right Patriot Prayer group, was fatally shot following a Trump vehicle parade through Portland by Michael Forest Reinoehl, an antifa member. These clashes between right-wing and left-wing groups, energized by Trump’s accusations that antifa is destroying weak Democratic cities, have ended in violence, and even death. Group members, donning gold and black Fred Perry polos, have attended and brawled with left-wing activists at Black Lives Matter protests in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, over the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, Proud Boys has been one of a handful of right-wing groups to exploit tense clashes between police and protesters across the country. In 2018, as seven group members faced charges related to a street brawl in New York, McInnes quit Proud Boys, saying his legal team and law enforcement had advised him to leave to alleviate the sentencing, but “I do this reluctantly because I still see this as the greatest fraternal organization in the world.”
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