A group calling themselves the Youth Liberation Front is credited in media reports with organizing anti-police rallies in Portland that have often turned violent.
The group openly cheers violence and explicitly rejects peaceful protesting on social media.
YLF says it wants to “destroy the United States of America.”
A radical group credited with organizing anti-police rallies in Portland openly cheers violence and explicitly rejects efforts to keep protests peaceful, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
The Youth Liberation Front is credited with organizing protests in Portland last week that extended into the early morning hours and turned violent, The Seattle Times and the Associated Press have reported. Portland police declared riots on multiple nights throughout the week.
The radical group’s goals extend far beyond changing policies and even beyond abolishing the police, as noted in a July 8 tweet: “we don’t want to be led, and we don’t want to lead, we just want to destroy the United States of America.”
“Abolish the United States of America,” the group wrote on Twitter in October. YLF has more than 32,000 followers on the social media platform.
“Members of our group report that watching the senate hearing on Antifa was very inspiring. Countless times the movement was referred to as being well organized, and it was conceded that ‘they are winning’ on various occasions. We will succeed in abolishing amerikkka!” YLF wrote on Twitter on Aug. 4, following a Senate hearing on Antifa violence.
YLF has applauded violence and explicitly rejects peaceful protesting.
A July 25 tweet from the group cheered agitators in Seattle who set fire to trailers at a proposed juvenile detention center. “Seattle starting off the day strong!” the tweet said.
“Let’s keep this energy up tonight, Portland!”
Let me editorialize for a second: the protesters burned the equipment being used to build a jail for children. https://t.co/MDT8B4forB
— Juan C. Chavez (@inafutureage) July 26, 2020
The uprising created "a kind of means-without-end in which the purpose is inextricable from the lived experience of the event itself... Unrelenting crowds forced police to retreat from their station and established a brief yet real police-free zone—abolition in real time." https://t.co/SffRuk39vG
— The Minnesota Wild (@lets_go_wild) August 6, 2020
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