Antifa and righty vics had guns
Both the Antifa suspect and the right-wing victim of last weekend’s fatal shooting at a Portland, Ore., protest had been armed at the time of the deadly confrontation, court documents reveal.
Michael Forest Reinoehl (top) allegedly used a semiautomatic handgun to kill Patriot Prayer supporter Aaron “Jay” Danielson — but Danielson was wearing a loaded Glock pistol in a holster when he died, the Associated Press reported.
Danielson also carried bear spray and an expandable metal baton according to court documents cited by the wire service.
The shooting happened moments after someone was heard to speak the challenge “wanna go?” the documents say.
Also on Friday, Reinoehl’s sister said she was “relieved and also disappointed” by her sibling’s death at the hands of US Marshals Service task-force members on Thursday.
Authorities were conducting surveillance on an apartment complex in Washington state when Reinoehl, armed with a handgun, came out at around 7 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
“I wouldn’t say at this point that this counts as bad news. It’s just more news,” April Reinoehl told the Daily Mail. “Honestly, I didn’t expect it to be the police. I expected it to be the people who had a contract out for him.”
“I was expecting the angry population of people who were out for blood,” she said.
“Now we’ve got two martyrs. That’s how the two opposing sides are going to want to spin it,” she lamented.