EFFORTPOST Recap of the 2021 Battle of Portland

So yesterday was Portland's annual large street battle. There are a bunch of smaller brawls going on in Portland every month or so, but once a year a few hundred rightoids and leftoids from Oregon, Seattle, and California get together to beat the shit out of each other.

https://www.koin.com/news/protests/portland-protests-august-22-2021

Here's the flyer for the "summer of love" event (which is a joke about the CHAZ)

https://archive.is/LLR7j

Rightoids initially planned to get a permit for the event in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, but at the last minute moved it to a k-mart parking lot several miles away.

Leftoids got to the park around 1PM and played around there for a while before realizing that rightoids were somewhere else.

https://x.com/TomasMorales_iv/status/1429555199316697096

https://x.com/ACatWithNews/status/1429562326307381248

https://x.com/jennytyoung/status/1429546541912498176

https://x.com/jennytyoung/status/1429552185277239301

Then there was the usual threatening and attacking street preachers downtown as leftoids were waiting for the rightoids to show up:

https://x.com/jennytyoung/status/1429547726933348354

There were some verbal arguments at KMart (which you can see on the streams) but nothing too crazy happened before this.

Then the leftoids figured out where the rightoids were and marched to the KMart, and that's where the streamers pick up the rest of what happened. First, the leftoids gathered around the entrances to the lot, blocking them off, and then the van leading the black bloc (leftoids) drove into the parking lot, which is what kicked off the battle:

The rest is caught on stream. Rightoids BLM the van, there's some fighting for 7 minutes, leftoids retreat as rightoids advance, then rightoids regroup at the parking lot. Leftoids attack journ*lists for 9 minutes, then rightoids come around the edge of the gas station. Rightoids push leftoids back for 8 minutes until they get to the lot where the leftoids parked. Rightoids BLM some supply and getaway cars for a few minutes before giving a statement to the media.

Oh and sometime after that there was a fun little shootout which no one knows anything about right now other than what we can see in these videos: