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Oregon Man says Portland Shooting was Self Defense

Reuters

   A 48-year-old Oregon man said he acted in self defense during the fatal
   shooting of a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland as he thought
   he and a friend would be stabbed, Vice News reported on Thursday.

   "I had no choice. I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and
   watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn't going to do
   that," Michael Reinoehl said in a video interview published by Vice
   News about the Saturday shooting of Aaron Danielson, 39.

   Reinoehl did not say he shot Danielson in the fragment of video shown
   by Vice News before the full interview is aired on Thursday night.

   The Oregonian newspaper reported Reinoehl was under investigation in
   the killing that took place after Danielson, a supporter of the Patriot
   Prayer group, participated in a rally in support of President Donald
   Trump.

   Portland police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

   Reinoehl, a self-declared anti-fascist, was active in Black Lives
   Matter demonstrations against racism and police brutality in Portland
   that have gone on for nearly 100 days, according to messages and videos
   on his Instagram feed.

   He said in posts on Facebook and Instagram he was a professional
   snowboarder and a U.S. Army veteran and was prepared to fight "to
   change the course of humanity."

   "I am 100% ANTIFA," he said in a June 16 post, using the term for the
   anti-fascist movement. "We truly have an opportunity right now to fix
   everything. But it will be a fight like no other! It will be a war and
   like all wars there will be casualties."

   His Facebook page says he is from Gresham, Oregon, a community around
   24 kilometers east of Portland.