*Note how a witness describes the assault, and tell me what's wrong with this picture.
From Jake Dima at Daily Caller:
"Police arrived at the scene around 12:50 a.m., and discovered large bruises on Lenzner’s face, prompting a manhunt for those involved with the assault. Officers were able to locate two individuals in their 20s that they say were involved with the Saturday morning violence Portland Police told The Daily Caller.'Lenzner may have instigated the attack.' *It's a gimmee. Police state Lenzner did not strike either of the suspects.
A bartender who witnessed the altercation alleged that Lenzner may have instigated the attack by pointing to his MAGA hat, according to FOX 12.
Leopold Hauser, 22, and Adebisi Okuneye, 23, were booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of third-degree assault."
The inimitable J.J. Sefton at Cut Jib Newsletter brings into focus the Left's ever more casual employ of violence against those deemed political 'others':
"Tuesday, and we lead with another example of our speech being violence and their violence being speech. I suppose some might think “well, what the hell was this guy thinking, wearing a MAGA hat in one of the epicenters of anti-American thuggery,” which is like blaming the chick in the short skirt for getting raped (see the item about Germany in the Foreign Affairs section), or a Parisian Jew for getting the shit kicked out of him for the crime of wearing a kippah on the Champs Elysees, or Emmett Till for smiling at a white woman in Democrat KKK country.It's not if, or when, civil war; it's already here. The demarcation with past conflicts is there's not yet an exchange of bullets.
It’s utterly loathsome and hateful, and it goes hand in glove with the effort to completely silence not only this President and conservative political and thought leaders in government and media, but a large swathe of the citizenry who share their views where they work, do business, in the schools and even in their houses of worship. Can you say “Nick Sandmann?” The beat-down of the guy in the MAGA hat is just the not-so-subtle reminder to watch what you say or else your life will be ruined. Or worse.
What’s galling is that the biggest purveyors of lies and inciters of violence against their political and cultural enemies are suddenly indignant when we the people have the gall to fight back."