Note to self: Don’t bring an American flag to an Antifa rally.
James Barrett, at the Daily Wire, explains:
An Antifa-led counter-protest that turned violent a few weeks ago in Portland, Oregon, featured a particularly disturbing moment caught on video: a man carrying an America flag crumbling to the ground after being hit in the back of the head by a masked, club-wielding Antifa member.
While Antifa apparently believed the man was a member of some white supremacist group, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, he was carrying the flag because he wanted to make clear that the far-right doesn’t have a monopoly on patriotism.
“Paul Welch came to the downtown protest Aug. 4 to let his political leanings be known,” The Oregonian reports. “With pride he clutched his U.S. flag as he moved among the crowd of like-thinking demonstrators.” But things quickly unraveled when Welch encountered black-clad so-called “anti-fascist” protesters, who “demanded he lose the flag, calling it a fascist symbol,” the paper reports.
While Welch tried to wrestle his flag back from the Antifa goons, one of them, wearing a baseball helmet, black mask and holding a shield, took a club to the back of his head, leaving him lying concussed on the ground, bleeding profusely.
The Oregonian noted that Welch is a registered Democrat who voted for Sanders in the primary and Hillary Clinton in the general election.
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