The suspect in the Portland, Oregon killing of a rightwing Trump supporter has been killed by law enforcement during an attempted arrest. Michael Forest Reinoehl was facing arrest in the shooting death of Aaron Danielson that happened last weekend during a pro-Trump action aimed at countering on-going Black Lives Matter protests. The 48-year old Reinoehl was shot and killed by Federal officers in the U.S. Marshals as part of what the New York Times called, “a federally led fugitive task force.” The Marshals put out a statement saying, “Initial reports indicate the suspect produced a firearm, threatening the lives of law enforcement officers…Task force members responded to the threat and struck the suspect who was pronounced dead at the scene.” The Times also explained that, “Mr. Reinoehl, who lived in the Portland area, had been a persistent presence at the city’s demonstrations over recent weeks, helping the protesters with security and suggesting on social media that the struggle was becoming a war where ‘there will be casualties.’” Just a day before Reinoehl’s killing, Vice News published an interview with him where he admitted that he killed Danielson saying he had no choice.

In other news, 7 police officers in Rochester, New York have been suspended over the killing by asphyxiation of a Black man named Daniel Prude who was naked and defenseless in the middle of the street this past March. Prude’s last moments resemble a police lynching, as per a video of the incident. Public outrage over the brutal and shocking killing was aimed at the city mayor and other officials over their inaction for many months after Prude’s killing. At a protest on Thursday evening, police used what one witness called “an irritant” into the crowd. In New York City, where a crowd had gathered to protest Prude’s killing, a car drove through those that had gathered. According to the Guardian, “Video posted on social media showed the car jerking through the crowd with its horn blaring as demonstrators scream and scramble out of the way.” It has become a common tactic of opponents of racial justice to plow their cars through peaceful protests in a manner similar to the terrorist Islamic State. 

Meanwhile a new report on the mass Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation this year shows that about 93% of those actions were peaceful and nonviolent. Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday visited Kenosha, Wisconsin where police had shot a black man in the back 7 times paralyzing him. The former Vice President said that President Donald Trump “