Survivors of a mass shooting have publicly shared video contradicting police claims that victims were armed and part of a ‘confrontation’

Two years after an attacker shot five volunteers before a Black Lives Matter march in Portland, Oregon, killing a 60-year-old woman and leaving one of her young friends paralyzed, a new visual investigation of the attack reveals that the assailant tried to provoke a stand-your-ground situation, daring three women to fight him, before suddenly opening fire when they refused.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The event happened two years ago, but the current article is calling out police lies related to that shooting which are still on the books.

    That false characterization of the unarmed victims as aggressors, which was repeated in dozens of local and national news reports, remains uncorrected on the website of the Portland police bureau (PPB) even today,