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WATCH: Portland BLM ‘security’ tackles man to the ground, puts him in chokehold
As protesters gathered in Portland at a vigil for a black man killed by police two years ago, BLM security at the event were filmed tackling a man and placing him in a chokehold, which police are forbidden from using.
Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters attended the event held at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Harvey Milk Street, the scene of the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Patrick Kimmons in 2018.
At one point, a young white man was seen moving quickly through the crowd before being unceremoniously steamrolled to the ground by ‘security’ at the event before being placed in a chokehold.
Commenters online pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of a protest movement calling to defund the police for brutality during arrests using chokeholds that were prohibited from use by police in the 1970s.
Funny how they want to defund the police and then have their own police acting like this.
— SanFran KAREN (@SanFranKAREN1) October 1, 2020
Of course “their” own “police” can use choke holds
— Funky Cold Medina (@thatonemedina) October 1, 2020
I thought chokeholds were illeg... oh wait, I forgot it's ok when they do it. pic.twitter.com/ij46NySMxE
— Retro History
