Portland Police Fired on Children on August 4

Aurora Martos
County Democrat Reader
6 min readAug 7, 2018

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(Content Warning: This article contains sensitive subjects, such as discussions of neo-Nazis and hurled slurs)

Well, I got shot at on Saturday by cops guarding an “alt-right/neo-Nazi/fascist protest in my city. This was not fun. You might want some more background to this, so uh, let me explain…

A bunch of white conservative redneck Trump supporters came down from Washington (to support a guy running for something in Washington, apparently, which means they had no real reason to be in Portland) and from Idaho (where the KKK are living), and who knows where else to Portland and had a “rally”. “Hate Parade,” as I put it. They came in, got a permit for the park by the waterfront (a park maintained with tax money that Portlanders had paid) in order to be able to bring in guns. Because someone in Portland allowed out-of-state racists to rent our park and bring in concealed weapons.

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The people across the street waved flags (American, Confederate, Nazi, yellow with snake), screamed about cleansing the nation and making leftists afraid, generally threatened the people on our side of the street. They could do whatever they wanted because the police were all…

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Aurora Martos
County Democrat Reader

I'm a politically active t(w)een, who is introverted and anti-social. I enjoy writing and drawing, and maintain my own site at littlebluefire.com.