Anonymous Red Phoenix correspondent | Portland, OR– The front door of the victim’s apartment unit after a raid by police and federal agents, Feb. 5, Portland, OR. (The Red Phoenix) On t…

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/27268

Anonymous Red Phoenix correspondent | Portland, OR– On the morning of Feb. 5, Portland Police Bureau and federal agents killed a man named Erik D. Sherrer, who was wanted for a previous incident at a nearby grocery store. Over 100 officers from both the Portland Police and Federal Government descended on a low-income housing complex to serve a warrant, deployed two breaching charges to the door, and gassed an entire complex to force Sherrer from his apartment and into the hallway, where he was killed by a SWAT team… Read More ›

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  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    You could just like… Wait… Until he comes outside… In unmarked cars… Everyone comes out in the morning anyway.

    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      It sounds weird

      https://katu.com/news/local/police-identify-man-killed-by-officers-who-was-linked-to-attempted-security-guard-shooting-safeway-shotgun-trump-threats-portland-pearl-district-oregon-investigation

      tl;dr supposedly he tried to shoot a security guard at a grocery store and after fleeing the scene (with his/a handgun) it turned out he’d also left a gun case behind at the scene that contained some shotgun shells that had “anti trump” stuff written on them. So secret service / feds got involved which explains the overkill response.

      doubt Can’t help but wonder about those supposed “threats against the president” shotgun shells.

      Edit: that article is from tuesday and then another outlet on wednesday reporting on the story paraphrases the cops in a way that implies those shotgun shells were found during the 100 police “attempt to arrest” him for the attempted shooting. Which would mean he was just such a BAMF that they sent an army to get him for an attempted shooting. Its not even an article, mind you, but I thought it was interesting that this important part of the story is already getting blurry in the media. https://kbnd.com/kbnd-news/regional-news/903656/

      idle speculation

      bet some local cop filed false paperwork on the guy re: threats to trump.

      • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        24·
        2 days ago

        I’m just assuming anyone who is said to have written or engraved anything on their ammo is being framed by the feds. This keeps coming up lately and it feels like the kind of lazy blacks-rule bullshit the current administration would resort to. I don’t buy it for a second. I’ve never seen or heard of a person in real life writing anything on their ammo. Humans don’t do this.

        • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          Humans don’t do this.

          There is that “bullet with your name on it” trope in fiction though. Presumably that’s the image these reports are supposed to conjure up, of fanatical assassins carving names into bullets.

          I think the fact that the trope is so dated is what stuck out first to me after seeing this pop up more than once under spooky circumstances.

        • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          2 days ago

          Its very odd because its like a fractal of implausibility/impossibility. Like, I could point out that you can’t / wouldn’t fit any meaningful manifesto on a shell casing but it feels like I’m already taking the bait entertaining it that much. Its like Ralph saying he saw Principle Skinner and Ms Hoover making babies and he saw the babies and one of the babies looked at him. You just roll your eyes and dismiss the lie because its too stupid to bother entertaining. But it gets repeated by credulous / incurious / ill informed people and/in the media despite being easier to poke holes in than Kirk’s throat.

          I’ll stay open minded, because maybe these wannabe shooters just have really neat handwriting, but if I were more inclined to jump to conclusions I would probably assume this pattern of blatant in-your-face fuckery indicates CIA shit.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Sometimes when you rob a grocery store, you have to carry extra ammo that doesn’t even fit into your gun so you can leave very, very intimidating threats to the president on the other side of the country. Personally, I would send an e-mail, but I don’t threaten the president so what the fuck do I know?

  • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I’m surprised there isn’t video from someone filming the wild police presence/show of force… but then again, I’d probably be confused and shitting myself (rather than filming) if I was there. I would never imagine something like that would be required to arrest execute one person

    — Insane use of force; Portland; “Threatening messages to Trump” written on ‘bullets’ — yeah, that all seems perfectly fucking normal. No worries y’all, Americans can sleep safer, knowing that the feds are keeping them safe from savages like that… don’t be afraid, just obey and you’ll (maybe) be ok

    If only those police in Uvalde had learned to be fearless defenders of the law like that; could’ve saved some kids and teachers from an active shooter