"Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade" claims responsibility for torching Portland cop cars

[TheProle]

Also Monday, a group calling itself “Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade” said people had cut through a fence at the bureau’s training facility and set 10 fires in anticipation of a police response at Portland State University’s Millar Library.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators had occupied the library for three days and the university administration asked city police to intervene. Police on Friday arrested 12 people, including four students, after the initial sweep.

Police said in an email that they are “aware of the online post claiming responsibility and that is part of the investigation.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/05/police-investigating-claims-of-responsibility-in-arson-fire-that-burned-17-police-cars.html

[atreides1]

1. Preemptive Strikes

They're great when law enforcement or the US military uses them...not so much when it's turned around.

Still, this was a stupid thing to do!

[sarisataka]

7. If an arsonist first burns the firetrucks

is that also a "preemptive strike"?

It wasn't stupid, it was criminal.

[obamanut2012]

2. Best to use a better source -- OSINTDefender is absolutely not a good source at all

They are also pro-Putin, and are Musk-endorsed. It is just some white guy who looks about 27 running it. In addition, the EU is running an investigation of them, due to anti-democratic propo and disinformation.

I would edit or self delete this.

[KS Toronado]

3. I agree, RWNJ sources we can do without.

[TheProle]

4. Removed the Twitter link

and left the same info from Oregon live. Now that you've done your gatekeeping good deed for the day, any comment on the substance of the story?

[obamanut2012]

5. You know, I wasn't snotty to you, so why are you being snotty to me?

I wasn't fucking "gatekeeping," I was letting you know it's considered a bad, RW source, something many people may not know. Like you. You didn't know.

You are welcome for me telling you.

[TheProle]

6. I appreciate it. I used it for the screenshot of the statement

But I found in on another site:

Preemptive May Day attack against PPB
Posted byrosecitycounterinfo 2024/05/06
Leave a comment on Preemptive May Day attack against PPB

On May Day we torched some PPB cars at their training facility. We cut through a fence, set ten fires and are happy it grew to burn fifteen cars!


We did it for the Haymarket Martyrs.
We did it for all the Black and Indigenous rebels murdered by slavers and settlers.
We did it for all the brutalized student protesters.
Above all we did it for the Palestinian martyrs! (and we want to remind the world that the “official” count is stuck at 35,000 martyrs because the Israelis bombed every hospital to stop accurate reporting of the dead)

Our attack was preemptive. After seeing Humboldt, Columbia, UCLA and more we knew the occupation at PSU would be swept violently and wanted to attack PPB before.
While we respect the student occupations, particularly the ones occupying buildings and causing damages to the colleges, we hate to see them passive and waiting to be attacked. Catch the police off guard! They do not believe you are free! Show them you are! Raid them before they raid you!

For the students we have the following messages:
1-No symbolic victories. Do not accept speeches and committees and apology emails. The two demands: Divest! Amnesty for all!
2-No negotiations. Do not give up ground until you see the money pulled out and the charges dropped and the suspensions canceled.
3-Do not let them demobilize you! Do not let the parties (fuck the Communist pieces of shit), the student government or the admin tell you its over. Its not! Keep the threat of your return present, especially if the admin refuses to meet demands.
4-FIGHT! Defend your camps! If the frat bros come, smash their frat house windows! If the Zionist settlers come, throw fireworks at them! If the cops come don’t just resist arrest, fight them! They will hate you and beat you if you’re peaceful or violent, and it is time to be violent.
5-Out of the quads, out of the buildings, into the streets! As the semester ends this is not over. Fight during the summer. When next year starts fight then too!

We call for more actions to avenge Palestinians and the brutalized students at PSU and beyond! Let ten million cop cars burn!
-Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade

[TheProle]

8. "You know, I wasn't snotty to you, so why are you being snotty to me?"

You could have shot me a private message and I would have thanked you and removed the offending source immediately. You chose instead to call me out and it felt performative.

[stopdiggin]

9. so now that you guys have got your little spat out of the way

Any comment on this clear call to violence? Pro, con .. indifferent?
If you read the statement provided by the group itself (we're assume for purposes that it is authentic) - then these people are right on the knife's edge of bombings, riots and human casualties. (it's all in there)

This is not peaceful protest. In fact many would say is not 'protest' at all. This is more on the order of guerilla tactics and terror. And the question remains - are we (you) okay with these kind of tactics and rhetoric ..? As long as it comes from the (so called) 'left'?
(I mean - clearly there would be screeches reaching clear to the heavens - if this was promulgated from the right)