Two years after police were cleared in the fatal shooting of a Portland man, his mother used his death to bash cops in a speech stoking Black Lives Matter protests in the city.
The mother of Patrick Kimmons vowed that a “change is going to come” as she spewed anti-police attacks to a crowd gathered in front of the Multnomah County Justice Center in downtown Portland, bashing law enforcement and the officers who fatally shot her son in 2018 as “cowards.”
(Source: KOIN)
“We need to continue to keep marching. We need to continue to keep chanting. We need to continue to keep running. We need to continue to keep screaming,” Letha Winston said.
“We need to stand tall through it all. Do not ever let anyone discourage you from getting justice…. A change is going to come,” she added.
Several videos posted from the gathering showed Winston chanting she was going to “fight” against alleged injustice.
Letha Winston is speaking now & she’s on 🔥, revving up the crowd! Her son Patrick Kimmons was killed by Portland police in Sept. 2018 #BlackLivesMatter #PDXprotests #PortlandProtests pic.twitter.com/f7zooaFNQv
— Jules Boykoff (@JulesBoykoff) August 17, 2020
“I said, ‘they took my son!’ so I am taking and demanding justice for Patrick Kimmons and all others,” she said. “We’re here to take our streets back.”
He death is justified. It was a justified Police shooting.
— ConcernedCitizen (@Concern72958199) August 17, 2020
She led the crown in a chant of “Black Lives Matter!” as she reportedly spoke for more than an hour Sunday.
Instigator of crime and hate.
👇👇👇 https://t.co/oVID6P3FWK— Hephzibah (@Hephzibah2015) August 17, 2020
Winston was joined by activist Demetria Hester who called for defunding of the police. Journalist Andy Ngo shared videos recorded by @livesmattershow and others at the event which was followed a short time later by another night of violence, marking more than 80 nights of consecutive protests.
.@tedwheeler, just bringing to your attention to what kind of speeches are happening outside the Justice Center. A #BLM speaker says officers should have been strangled by the umbilical cord as babies, & that she’s ready to shoot & kill them now. #antifa pic.twitter.com/cBoR4T0AH2
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 17, 2020
“We’re getting ready to get armored up down here,” Winston can be heard saying. “I will continue my mission for justice by any means necessary.”
Watch this to the end to see the type of hate preaching by BLM that is used to radicalize people to violence.
This was recorded by @livesmattershow a few hours before some BLM protesters went around downtown Portland beating & robbing numerous people. pic.twitter.com/OnpCHPgBSq
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 17, 2020
“No justice, no peace! Take it to the streets. And f— the police!” the crowd chanted as they began marching following Winston’s speech.
Winston has been demanding that Mayor Ted Wheeler reopen her son’s case after the officers who fatally shot Kimmons in 2018 were cleared when a grand jury ruled that their actions were justified. Portland Police said the 27-year-old was armed and refused to listen to commands as they discovered he had shot two people in a fight just moments before being confronted.
her son shot 2 people and tried to shoot the cops
— Espen Bjerke (@colher23) August 17, 2020
Officers and witnesses say Kimmons was shot after running toward officers with a revolver in his hand. Witnesses say officers yelled commands at Kimmons as they shot. Police fired 12 rounds and say they recovered a gun near Kimmons.
— Marcus T. Cicero (@cedantarmatog1) August 17, 2020
Ngo pointed out in a tweet that Winston was “inciting the crowd to violence” with her speech on Sunday.
Without these videos, the false story we would have gotten would have been through tweets like these. The speaker who is inciting the crowd to violence is the mother of a man killed by police after he shot two people in downtown & aimed his revolver at responding police. #BLM pic.twitter.com/IiBO0OOrbO
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 17, 2020
Others on Twitter also slammed the woman for using her son’s death as a platform to promote “crimes against others.”
All these people mindlessly supporting her story. People don’t even bother to research anymore.
— Catherine (@Catherine3684) August 17, 2020
I understand being upset about your son being killed.
However…
I do not see ANY sense in using that as a platform for a VICTIM MENTALITY of hate and promoting crimes against others.
Thanks Malcom X👍
— Hephzibah (@Hephzibah2015) August 17, 2020
She says black lives matter but her son shot two Black men! Both could’ve died. A bullet fractured one guy’s leg and went into the chest of the other, barely missing vital organs. Then her son ran towards police with his gun and wouldn’t drop it. End of story.
— Undercover Kat (@angelsforlove) August 17, 2020
Wow! No shame and no accountability what so ever! Maybe this chic should have been a responsible mother instead of behaving and setting the kind of example she sets in this video. Her son killed people and turned the gun on authority, should they have let him kill more innocents?
— Debra Drost (@DebraDrost) August 17, 2020
As the night unfolded, scenes of demonstrators attacking buildings and pelting police were shared on social media.
In one disturbing and graphic incident, protesters allegedly chased a man driving a pickup truck claiming he had tried to run them over. After the driver crashed the truck, he was violently grabbed out of the vehicle and brutally assaulted by the mob.
Portland BLM causes man to crash, pull him out of vehicle, kick and beat him bloody unconscious https://t.co/pWSUbU7S5X
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) August 17, 2020
One person ran and kicked the man in the head, apparently knocking him unconscious. Police reported that they arrived and encountered “a hostile crowd,” adding that the unidentified man was taken to the hospital for his injuries.
The Portland Police Bureau also noted that they have been so overwhelmed by rioting that more than 60 emergency calls to the 911 dispatch center from residents went unanswered.
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