Police are gearing up to prevent violence Saturday between Proud Boys and anti-fascist counterprotesters in Portland.
As Portland girded Saturday for dueling far-right and anti-fascist rallies that some worry could turn violent, protesters of a different stripe were donning “poop emoji” costumes.
Portland police are serious, however, about preventing the sort of brawls that have grown out of past appearances of groups including the Proud Boys, which is deemed aby the Southern Poverty Law Center. The groups expected Saturday are similar to those that gathered two years ago in Charlottesville, Va., for a white nationalist rally that turned deadly.
Portland police weren’t sure which groups would show up Saturday, but they were deploying their entire force of almost 1,000, backed by FBI agents and an undisclosed number of officers from around the state. They began early Saturday morning closing some downtown streets and a bridge across the Willamette River. On Friday, workers had erected half a mile of concrete barricades for crowd control along the waterfront.
Biggs said that he aimed to take punches on Saturday, not throw them. “I want them to be violent, and I’m just going to sit there and take it, and everyone’s going to see who antifa really is,” he said.
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