1 person is dead after a shooting during protests in downtown Portland

[Proud liberal 80]

After reading this article, I just don’t understand how this stuff supposedly makes Biden look bad and helps Trump (you know, the incumbent). Yes it’s a wash between us and his supporters, but to the few undecided or whatever, how do they see this and say “oh no we have to re-elect Trump“

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-protest-fatal-shooting/index.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Why were they there?

Isn't there a curfew?

Later in the evening, New York Times reporter Mike Baker posted video from downtown Portland. In at least one video, protesters standing on a street corner are seen screaming and tossing items at people in a stopped white pickup truck with an American flag and the words "All Live Matter" written on a back driver's side window; the truck appears to be part of the Trump cruise rally. One of the protesters is seen lighting a Trump flag on fire as the caravan begins to drive off.

A man riding in the bed of a passing black pickup truck displaying a blue "Oregon for Trump" flag and an American flag can be seen pointing and firing a paintball gun at the protesters standing on the corner. As a green pickup truck passes, someone riding in the bed can be seen spraying something toward protesters. As the angle of the video shifts, the riders in the black truck can be seen releasing some form of spray. Passengers riding in the green truck duck as the other protesters toss something at them.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. My personal thought?

It's happening under Trumps administration. He started it.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I keep saying that it's not the truth that matters, but the perception of truth...

and Trump's method of shamelessly throwing out bullshit works amazingly well.