This is a video of the arrest, followed by context of what's going on in Portland. I think the most striking part is a video of a rioters holding the door to a federal building closed as police try to exit. When the police bust through, he attacks them with a hammer, and all of the 'protesters' start screaming "what are you doing to him? Leave him alone!"
It's amazing. This guy assaulted the cops first, and the crowd was watching it happen with their cameras rolling, and yet it's the police's fault for hitting back.
That's why I don't trust that video. It doesn't show what the arrestee was doing thirty seconds before the cops arrested him, and I don't trust the women behind the camera to tell the truth of what happened.
As for the unmarked police car... *Shrugs* if I had to guess, I would say that federal vehicles attract a lot of attention, and rioters tend to run or go incognito when they hear the feds coming. Back in May, Antifa had bicycle scouts to lead riots away from police lines. They might still have runners in places like Portland.
People do understand that being arrested like this is basically Antifa's wet dream, right? This does nothing at all to solve the problem and makes it worse. They are effectively cheap martyrs. The way to win this is to resort to as little force as possible, and constantly be in the moral superior position. Law enforcement sinking to the oppositions level is a straight up loss
Lol. No, this is not Antifa's wet dream. If it is, it's the sort of sexual fantasy involving handcuffs, midgets and mayonnaise that is only enjoyable so long as it remains a fantasy.
Look at the video I posted. One of the rioters came from Houston, Texas. If he wanted to be arrested and put on trial, he would have rioted in Houston, or gone out to one of the smaller cities in Texas that still votes hard Republican. He came to Portland because Portland will let him get away with arson, assault, and vandalism. The rioters and the thugs in Portland are encouraged to vandalize and terrorize because they know that if they get picked up by police, they'll be out on the streets within the day.
Now that the feds are involved, the equation changes.