So something very interesting has happened.
Portland's Rapid Response Team (RRT) is its main crowd control unit. While it has, in the past, helped mitigate ANTIFA's ability to do damage slightly, the fact that the DA and Mayor are both hardcore leftists means that their main purpose in reality is to crack down only if ANTIFA starts getting too close to protected areas (local government officials and their financial backers). Their secondary, far more egregious purpose, has been effectively protecting ANTIFA from the plebs, arresting and charging ever-loving shit out of anyone who gives one of the rioters the real-time kick in the
paginis they so richly deserve.
Unfortunately, a year and change of demonizing the police, followed by a grand jury attempting to throw the book at an RRT officer for daring to shove a member of ANTIFA was enough to get
the entire unit to say "
fuck this, we're out."
To repeat, this means
all of them. The entire squad that used to react to ANTIFA events is now gone.
Which means the Police unit that (A) used to tard-wrangle ANTIFA when it got too close to the wrong target, and (B) protected it from civilian groups like the Proud Boys is (at least temporarily) asleep at the switch. Keep watching Portland for the next few days, because the usual suspects are going to be taking more than a few fists in the next day or two, and it's going to be hilarious to watch.