Portland Radicals Admit Torching 17 Police Cars, Their Statement Is Nuts and All About Campus Protests

I've written before about how crazy the radical left is in Portland.

We saw a recent example of that with how they took over the library at Portland State University. What they left was disgusting: they trashed the place. They had paint all over the floors and graffiti all over the walls, they smashed glass cases, they had makeshift weapons, and there were even reports of value book/comic collections missing from the library. Then when the police raided, many of them seemed to have been allowed to just run right out the front door. After the library was cleared out, they even had the gall to come back the next day to try it again. The police did arrest about 30 people over the course of two days, noting that some of them were not students.

One of the things that I also remarked on in that story was that on the morning before the police raid, someone torched 15 Portland police cars at a training facility.

As police are moving in & preparing to clear out Portland State University library, it's reported that 15 Portland police vehicles were set on fire at the training facility in an act of suspected arson. pic.twitter.com/Y2Cqqt3cLG
— Dixie (@OSiiNT) May 2, 2024

The police updated that report on Monday and said 17 cars had been torched.

As I noted, the timing was highly suspicious considering it happened right before the raid on the PSU campus activists.

Now a group calling itself "Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade" is admitting they did it to strike first at the police, believing a raid was coming.

Also Monday, a group calling itself “Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade” said people had cut through a fence at the bureau’s training facility and set 10 fires in anticipation of a police response at Portland State University’s Millar Library. [....]
“Raid them before they raid you,” the group’s post said on the website Rose City Counter-Info. The website allows people to publish posts anonymously. The website was used earlier this year by people who claimed they set a car on fire outside Portland City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez’s house.
Rachel Corrie was an American activist from Olympia, Washington, who died in 2003 while protesting the Israeli Army’s destruction of Palestinian houses in Gaza. She was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer and died.

🚨 Breaking: Big Encampment Escalation

An anonymous group calling itself “Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade” claimed responsibility for the May 1st burning of 15 Portland Police Department cars, calling it a "preemptive attack" to prevent them from dismantling the encampment at… pic.twitter.com/WzTfnYcCSh
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 6, 2024

Among the crazy things they said:

We did it for the Haymarket Martyrs.
We did it for all the Black and Indigenous rebels murdered by slavers and settlers.
We did it for all the brutalized student protesters.
Above all we did it for the Palestinian martyrs! (and we want to remind the world that the “official” count is stuck at 35,000 martyrs because the Israelis bombed every hospital to stop accurate reporting of the dead)
Our attack was preemptive. After seeing Humboldt, Columbia, UCLA and more we knew the occupation at PSU would be swept violently and wanted to attack PPB before. [....]
4-FIGHT! Defend your camps! If the frat bros come, smash their frat house windows! If the Zionist settlers come, throw fireworks at them! If the cops come don’t just resist arrest, fight them! They will hate you and beat you if you’re peaceful or violent, and it is time to be violent.
5-Out of the quads, out of the buildings, into the streets! As the semester ends this is not over. Fight during the summer. When next year starts fight then too!
We call for more actions to avenge Palestinians and the brutalized students at PSU and beyond! Let ten million cop cars burn!

You can see by the first couple of things in their screed the connection to radical leftism and how they want to continue the thuggery, even saying "it is time to be violent" and calling for "ten million cop cars" to "burn." Haymarket refers to an 1886 violent labor riot that had bomb throwing and police killing.

But Rachel Corrie's father disavowed these characters, saying that had wrongly appropriated his daughter's name. “I guess there’s nothing I can say to them,” Craig Corrie said. “No, it’s just wrong. They’ve co-opted Rachel’s name for use they would never, ever have approved of.”

Police said they were investigating the arson and the claim of responsibility.