Police shoot down anti-fascist activist suspected of murdering Trump fan in Portland

• USA: One dead in Portland after clashes between anti-racists and Trump supporters

A

federal agent

killed the suspect on Thursday of having assassinated a supporter of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, during a confrontation last weekend in

(

) in the context of protests against racism, local media reported.

According to the newspapers

and

, which cite official sources, the suspect, identified as

, has died in the town of

, in the state of

, when a group of federal agents tried to arrest him.

The federal agent has shot Reinoehl when "he took out a pistol,"

a source from

explained to the

, saying that members of the

and the

participated in the operation

.

Reinoehl, 48, linked to the anarchist movement

, was suspected of having shot dead

, 39, a Trump supporter and member of the far-right movement

, who clashed with those who were they were demonstrating in Portland against racial injustice.

Shortly after the

published the information about Reinoehl's death, Trump has tweeted precisely about that case, but he did not seem to have heard the news yet, because he wondered: Why did the Portland Police not ARREST the cold blooded killer of Aaron 'Jay' Danielson? ".

"I had no choice"

In an interview published this Thursday by

, Reinoehl seemed to admit that he had killed Danielson, assuring that he "had no other option" and that he acted in self-defense, because he believed that the Trump supporter was going to stab him already. a friend.

"I could have just sat there and watched a friend of mine from another race get killed. But I wasn't going to do that," said Reinoehl, who was white.

The left-wing activist, who defined himself as

, frequently attended protests this summer in Portland, one of the cities where there has been a more active and sometimes violent mobilization against racism after the killing of the African American

in May in

.

Reinoehl told a journalist weeks ago that he often acted as "security" at protests, and in early July he was arrested for carrying a loaded pistol at a demonstration, although he was later released.

The activist was never formally charged with Danielson's murder, and Portland Police said Thursday that they were still investigating the incident.

"Law"

That event came after a caravan of Trump supporters and Patriot Prayer far-rightists toured Portland over the weekend and clashed with anti-racism protesters, shooting them with buckshot and paint bullets.

The incident fueled Trump's "law and order" discourse, which has profiled protesters as "anarchists" and "criminals," without distinguishing between the majority who demonstrate peacefully and the minority who have participated in altercations. or riots.

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