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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMan charged with shooting Portland federal courthouse attended Salem 'Stop the Steal' protest
An armed man upset about the results of the 2020 presidential election fired five shots into the side of Portlands federal courthouse on Friday, according to court documents filed in federal court Sunday.
Cody Levi Melby, 39, reportedly climbed over the temporary security fence erected this summer to keep racial justice protesters outside the federal courthouse before he opened fire on the building, the documents state. No one was injured in the attack.
Melby is charged with destruction of property and is set to make his first appearance in court Monday.
Records show Melby was also arrested in Salem by Oregon State Police on Wednesday during a pro-Trump Stop the Steal rally outside the Oregon State House. At that rally, attendees listened to a live broadcast of the president, who again falsely told his supporters there was widespread fraud in the 2020 general election.
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/11/man-who-shot-federal-courthouse-in-portland-attended-stop-the-steal-protest-in-salem/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

ProfessorGAC
(74,675 posts)Charming!
SheltieLover
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Leghorn21
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Hes disgruntled, yknow
Sanity Claws
(22,262 posts)Initech
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regnaD kciN
(27,319 posts)For months, all we heard about was those evil awful BLM rioters in "commie" Portland. But, even though they had sizeable demonstrations every day through the summer and autumn, the most "carnage" they committed against the courthouse was throwing water bottles or, in one case, starting a trash-can fire in the plaza outside. No one ever actually fired shots at the building...until this "patriot" came along.