'Straight to Gunshots': How a US Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=56635"><span class="small">Evan Hill, Mike Baker, Derek Knowles and Stella Cooper, The New York Times</span></a>

Wednesday, 14 October 2020 08:16

Excerpt: "A few days after a shooting left a far-right Trump supporter dead on the streets of Portland, Oregon, Michael Reinoehl, an antifa activist who had been named in the news media as a focus of the investigation, feared that vigilantes were after him, not to mention the police."

Investigators at the scene where Mr. Reinoehl was killed by law enforcement in Lacey, Wash., in September. (photo: Ted S. Warren/AP)

'Straight to Gunshots': How a US Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist

By Evan Hill, Mike Baker, Derek Knowles and Stella Cooper, The New York Times

14 October 20

New accounts from the scene raise questions about whether Michael Reinoehl, suspected of killing a far-right Trump supporter, pulled out a gun before officers fatally shot him.

ichael Reinoehl was on the run.

A few days after a shooting left a far-right Trump supporter dead on the streets of Portland, Ore., Mr. Reinoehl, an antifa activist who had been named in the news media as a focus of the investigation, feared that vigilantes were after him, not to mention the police. Even some of his close friends did not know where he was.

But the authorities knew.

On Sept. 3, about 120 miles north of Portland, Mr. Reinoehl was getting into his Volkswagen station wagon when a pair of unmarked sport utility vehicles roared through the quiet streets, screeching to a halt just in front of his bumper. Members of a U.S. Marshals task force jumped out and unleashed a hail of bullets that shattered windows, whizzed past bystanders and left Mr. Reinoehl dead in the street.

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