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The Washington Post said:Police shot Portland slaying suspect without warning or trying to arrest him first, witness says
Police in Portland., Ore., had been investigating Michael Forest Reinoehl in connection with the fatal shooting of Aaron J. Danielson on Aug. 29. In an interview that with Vice News, Reinoehl said he was acting in self-defense, believing he and a friend were about to be stabbed. (Courtesy of VICE News)
By
Tim Elfrink
September 10, 2020 at 1:14 a.m. PDT
When police last week surrounded Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist suspected of fatally shooting a member of a far-right group in Portland, Ore., the wanted man wasn’t obviously armed, a witness to the scene said Wednesday.
In fact, according to Nate Dinguss, Reinoehl was clutching a cellphone and eating a gummy worm as he walked to his car outside an apartment complex in Lacey, Wash. That’s when officers opened fire without first announcing themselves or trying to arrest him, Dinguss, a 39-year-old who lives in the apartment complex, said in a statement shared with The Washington Post....
Why is this "shockingly unsurprising", to me? (Yeah I know that makes little sense, what in 2020 does?) :roll: