'Patriot' Movement Conspicuously Absent From Portland's Federal Overreach Protests
Protests in Portland, Ore., have grown increasingly heated and even violent. But one typically outspoken movement in the Northwest has been noticeably absent from the anger on the streets.
by Kirk Siegler
Jul 27, 2020
3 minutes
Over the weekend as large crowds of protesters in Portland chanted in support of Black lives and against an ongoing federal police crackdown around the courthouse, some heads turned when a few young men were spotted in the crowd wearing flak jackets over their Hawaiin shirts.
These were purported to be members of the so-called Boogaloo Boys, a mishmash movement of extremists that calls for another civil war, among other things.
"We don't support violence, I want to make
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