The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Nearly three years after Sean’s death an arrest has been made. Senior producer Ryan Haas  is joined by reporter Jonathan Levinson to discuss why the Portland police finally charged someone with murder. 

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We sat down with Rose City Antifa, a different kind of anti-facist group in Portland than we've previously discussed. 

We get a window into what it's like to be a member of the only antifa group with a website in Portland. 

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After the largest year of protests in recent memory, an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and sometimes deadly fights between political factions at the fringes of society: What has changed? And what are the consequences of government inaction? 

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Laura Kealiher doesn’t believe the state has made a good faith effort to solve Sean’s case. 

We attempt to get answers from Portland’s progressive district attorney. And, we uncover a new witness who raises questions about why this case is still unsolved. 

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In some ways, Sean Kealiher’s homicide has remained a mystery because people closest to him have long declined to talk publicly about what happened the night he was killed. 

For the first time ever, two antifascists who were with Sean the night of his homicide tell their side of the story. 

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The uprising of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 swept the country. 

As many as 1 in 10 adult Americans attended a protest. They got a taste of the world Sean Kealiher had been inhabiting for years before he was killed. 

And in Portland, the culture war over race and politics would turn deadly. 

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Ani Raven is a longtime activist and community radio host in Portland. 

She was also one of Sean Kealiher’s mentors when he joined the Occupy movement at 15 years old. 

In 2011, Raven met Sean at the camps that Occupy protesters had set up in Portland city parks. 

In this episode, released on the two-year anniversary of Sean’s killing, Raven discusses how she watched Sean grow as a young activist, and start to lead people in the street. 

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After Sean Kealiher was killed, his mother Laura was subjected to brutal harassment from conservative trolls at her home and online—and it was Sean’s antifascist friends who provided her security, not the Portland police. 

Meanwhile, we ask the former head of police detectives in Portland why there has been no progress in solving Sean’s homicide. 

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When Sean Kealiher and his friend Micah Fletcher began confronting racists in their community, neither one could have predicted the consequences. 

In 2017, Micah would nearly lose his life when he was attacked on a Portland train as he defended two teenage girls from a racist tirade. 

Now, he reflects on how he was lauded as a hero while his friend Sean was treated as a thug for doing the same things. 

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Oregon’s long history of racism was what brought Sean Kealiher and so many protesters like him to the streets. 

The fights between anti-racist skinheads and neo-Nazis in the 80s and 90s set the stage for Portland to found America’s first official Antifa chapter.  

And Laura Kealiher says the way police are intertwined with those past fights makes her skeptical they will ever solve Sean’s homicide. 

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