The Portland shooter gives an interview, dies a few hours later during an attempt to arrest him
[See UPDATE below.]
Are they going to make this guy into a martyr too? After all, it sounds like the feds killed him. Unless he killed himself as they closed in.
NYT Reporting Portland Shooter Micheal Reinoehl killed in Lacy, Washington, when federal fugitive task force moved in to arrest him.
Portland District Attorney’s office had issued an arrest warrant earlier Thursday, apparently after Vice News had teased an interview set for later Thursday night in which Reinoehl admitted that he was the person who shot and killed Aaron Danielson in Portland on Saturday night.
I guess that was too much even for the Portland DA Schmidt.
More:
Michael Reinoehl was interviewed by Portland area “Independent” journalist Donovan Farley, and parts of that interview was broadcast on Thursday night on Vice TV.
In the interview Reinoehl confessed to shooting and killing Aaron Danielson in downtown Portland on Saturday night.
Reinoehl had been identified by his sister from video taken during various events leading up to the shooting…
He claimed self-defense – you might call it the Rittenhouse defense. However, unlike Rittenhouse, the footage and witnesses available of Danielson’s killing indicated that nothing of the sort was involved. And again, unlike Rittenhouse, Reinoehl had a previous arrest history.
I previously wrote about Reinoehl – including his estrangement from his family – here. He had been arrested a month ago for “possessing a loaded gun in a public place, resisting arrest and interfering with police.” But the charges were dropped by the prosecutors on July 30. Danielson was killed by Reinoehl less than a month later. And now, less than a week later, Reinoehl is dead.
According to this report, US Marshals were involved in the attempt to apprehend Reinoehl:
The U.S. Marshals Service was part of the law enforcement team that attempted to arrest Reinoehl when shots were fired…
“I am 100% ANTIFA all the way! I am willing to fight for my brothers and sisters!” he wrote. “We do not want violence but we will not run from it either.”
In that same Instagram post, Reinoehl wrote that there was an opportunity to “fix everything.”
“But it will be like a fight like no other! It will be a war and like all wars there will be casualties,” he said. “I was in the army and I hated it.”
While Reinoehl’s sister said she had a vague recollection of her brother being in the service, an U.S. Army spokesperson was unable to find any records connected to Reinoehl in an Army database.
It would not surprise me at all if he had never served in the armed forces.
UPDATE:
More information has come out:
…[I]t was four officers of the Pierce County Apprehension team, a US Marshal Fugitive Task force, who fired the fatal shots. Officers had observed him exit an apartment and head towards the vehicle, and could see that he was armed. After initially entering the vehicle, Reinoehl exited the vehicle and fled on foot…
Reinoehl then exited the vehicle with an assault rifle which he use to fire at the officers, who then returned fire killing him. The witnesses estimated as many as 30 or 40 shots were fired.
The article mentions that one of the reasons authorities had not apprehended Reihoehl before was that the videos did not unequivocally reveal his identity. Once he gave the interview, however, that hurdle was cleared, because he admitted to being Danielson’s killer, although he claimed it was self-defense.
Why did he give that interview and make that confession? I have several theories, not mutually exclusive. One is that he wanted the notoriety. Another is that what Rittenhouse did in Kenosha gave him an idea for a storyline for his defense, and what elements it needed to have. Another is that he wanted to commit suicide by cop.
Didn’t serve.
More details here
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/crime/article245485220.html
Austere snowboard instructor exits in blizzard of gunfire.
Here’s one for you, Neo: Funny how many of the very violent rioters have quite the criminal history, and seem to be cut off from family. This is in contrast to the Antifa types, who seem to be mentally ill and living in mom’s basement.
What’s up with this?
I thought: perhaps they’ll riot in memory of him. Then I remembered that they already are, so the appropriate move would be to cease rioting, right?
Good riddance.
Thank you, LeClerc!
That was a fitting epitaph.
Neo’s comments a few days ago about sociopaths involving themselves in these sorts of activities seem appropriate. He tried to invent a self-defense story, and then committed suicide by cop, while trying to take them with him.
The el snoozo reaction of the authorities in Portland tells you what you need to know about the DA, the mayor, and the city commission. The notion they didn’t have probable cause to arrest him until he bloody admits it beggars belief.
This is bad. I want the rule of law, not the law of the jungle.
100% dead.
“…el snoozo…”
Not entirely fair. (I.e., I would add to the list the entire Democratic Party leadership—at national, state and local levels—along with those “Best and Brightest”(TM) in the MSCM.)
But it’s also not fair because, because…well, how else should one be expected to react to “a myth”?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzfx9cPCMhk
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110938/documents/HHRG-116-JU00-20200728-SD037.pdf
So Micheal Reinoehl exited his vehicle and fired multiple shots, 40 or 50 rounds were heard before officers returned fire. This creature filled the air up with lots of bullets from an AR with a high capacity magazine and fortunatly did not hit anyone and then the Federal Marshall’s shot him and ended the dangerous situation. Compare that to Kyle Rittenhouse who used excellent trigger discipline and took out three men who were assaulting him without any collateral damage. The ‘catch and release’ method of dealing with rioters who are caught with illleagal firearms in their possession is beyond crazy.
“…beyond crazy.”
Actually, it’s intentional, methodical and criminal.
And I would hope that those city and state officials (right up to the top of the food chain, if necessary)—along with those individuals and orgs. who finance these policies—can be prosecuted for public and/or reckless endangerment (or abetting such) after the smoke clears and Trump wins, as I hope he will, in November.
Well he was most likely only a low level assassin for Antifa/BLM but I certainly hope there is information to exploit from all his electronic devices that remain.
Contact tracing of the right kind for the real public health hazard.
He was most likely a sociopath who got caught up in this hysteria. Note the criminal histories of the men Rittenhouse shot. These are not normal people.
The New York Times article so bad, it’s a glowing profile of a garbage human being. He, the Times, or both are looking for martyr status. If BLM and Antifa want their heroes/martyrs to be murders, rapist, sociopaths, and drug abusers, so be it.
The only thing that is important is that he is DEAD!
His arrest in Lacey was mostly peaceful. And now he is entirely peaceful.
So, now their Movement has its own Horst Wessel. That figures.
It’s really time for A.G. Sulzberger, David Brooks, and Nicholas Kristof to take up arms and join their brothers in Antifa.
No more of this arm-chair warrior nonsense.
They have three martyrs now; two from Kenosha one from Lacey.
The Antifa/BLM are blaming the Portland police for the mostly peaceful arrest of Micheal Reinoehl (he would never have met his sad end in Portland).
non servator:
I’m not sure in what jungle federal officers try to apprehend a known criminal, with a warrant for that person’s arrest.
If what you are saying is that it’s very unfortunate that the self-confessed killer tried to evade arrest by trying to kill the officers, yes it is unfortunate. But this episode does not represent the law of the jungle.
This! Pushback begins. The rioters have crossed state lines. They have made it legal to involve Federal law enforcement. It will take time. They are better organized than in the 1960/70s. They have better funding. But they are now facing real pushback.
Paranoid and delusional with the desire to be seen as a hero (from his lies about his actions to his false report of having served in the military).
Perhaps the dems opened up the mad houses to get more constituents…
non servator on September 4, 2020 at 8:21 am said:
This is bad. I want the rule of law, not the law of the jungle.
At best you get veneer….
OldTexan on September 4, 2020 at 8:51 am said:
The ‘catch and release’ method of dealing with rioters who are caught with illleagal firearms in their possession is beyond crazy.
most exemplified by Commander Red a LARPing moron who was on 10k bail for acting at a protest, gets caught again with a flame thrower, military grade smoke bombs, and stickers… and what do they do? let him out on bail at 2500 with charges of bail jumping… they didnt mention if the flame thrower was illegal… i bet it wasnt… as its not that you collect one, its what you do with one, and you cant arrest him for presumption of action as he had yet to do something…
Crazy
Toys in the attic they are crazy
Truly gone fishing…
–Pink Floyd
Josh on September 4, 2020 at 10:32 am said:
The New York Times article so bad, it’s a glowing profile of a garbage human being. He, the Times, or both are looking for martyr status
We will await his resurrection…
om on September 4, 2020 at 11:57 am said:
They have three martyrs now; two from Kenosha one from Lacey.
yeah, the black kid killed in the chaz for joy riding missed the cut
J.J. on September 4, 2020 at 2:23 pm said:
This! Pushback begins. The rioters have crossed state lines. They have made it legal to involve Federal law enforcement. It will take time. They are better organized than in the 1960/70s. They have better funding. But they are now facing real pushback.
Paraphrasing…
My favorite joke poster for this event says at the top… they have soy boys, skinny larping kids, cry babies, etc..
their opposition has ex police, ex military, bikers, good old boys…
the civil war will be a half hour we wont get back…
for the record there wont be a civil war…
I might have believed that their could if they didn’t ride around and reappear making it seem like there was more of them than there really was… there isn’t enough of them to actually have a civil war… and there IS enough real opposition that when riled, will end it pretty fast… its just not gonna happen… and the above doesn’t even include national guard or other resources applied…
Artfldgr:
I have often wondered how many of the activist rioters there really are, and strongly suspected there are FAR fewer than it appears, because of all the moving around.
I don’t think I could have said this a few days ago, but I now find this complete story unbelievably sad. Obviously Danielson’s cold-blooded murder calls for that, but to some extent Reinoehl’s as well. I mean that in a manner of “WTF have we come to?”
I mean that in a perception of enough people that believe murder is the easiest answer to perceived problems or arguments with people you disagree with. Social media and the media itself has become a disease, and it obviously finds a host and festers in the minds of mentally unbalanced people like Reinoehl. What bursts forth from that festering shouldn’t be a surprise, and media giants continually wash their hands of it.
I’ve been going back and reading those that know much more than me, such as Adam Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments.” It tries to finds a balance of self-interest and sympathy, searching for where our actions are guided by finding a proper balance between the two. But what happens when there is no sympathy?
According to Smith, when we see people happy, we feel happy, too. And when they’re sad, we feel sad as well. But the updated calculus says that if they’re our enemies, everything is the reverse. We delight in their pain. We wince at their joys.
Sorry to ramble on so, but I read these insights of Smith and find everything he wrote and has guide civilization for so long has been undermined, much to the detriment of a civil and cohesive society.
Who is this “we” you speak of?
Reinhold chose to murder Danielson and then chose to not surrender in a peaceful manner to four (4) LEOs. That can be done, contrary to BLM propaganda, particularly since he wasn’t a BIPOC (sarc).
He was evil, stupid, and possibly mentally ill, bit it’s too late for anyone to be really sure about the mental illness IMO.
No one forced him into those actions. Yes it is sad that evil and stupid people injure others and themselves.
Time for Jeff Goldberg to join the bros in the BLM/Antifa brigades.
You can bring your “anonymous sources” along for the dust-ups Jeff !
Dger: “the civil war will be a half hour we wont get back…”
Let it be so. 🙂
I can’t even.
https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2020/09/04/the-new-york-times-does-insane-white-wash-of-the-portland-murderer-call-him-de-escalation-expert/
RTWT
Meanwhile, with friends like these, who needs enemies?
NOTE: something is really screwing up URLs at Red State.
https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/09/04/the-only-thing-mass-covid-testing-achieves-is-a-permanent-fake-pandemic-sustained-by-false-positives/
Kyle Rittenhouse Did Nothing Wrong. Conservatives Throwing Him Under the Bus Need to Cut It Out Now
Posted at 4:00 pm on September 4, 2020 by Michael Thau
Contributions to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund = at “Fight Back”.
Rittenhouse’s attorneys are the same men defending Nick Sandmann.
LeClerc:
Can you please post the complete address (https://www.??????) that works?
Thanks. om
Another “Death by cop” until shown otherwise. Also, a significant reason why the work of uniformed policing is dangerous. I read the NY Post’s version of this story. Pretty much a narrative of the facts known, at present.
I imagine the left will do its best to make a martyr of him. Meanwhile, Reinoehl’s own sister reportedly commented on his demise with, “I wouldn’t say at this point that this counts as bad news.”
Neo;
I think nonservator is referring to the general situation on the streets, with the Democrat mayors holding back the local police from enforcing simple laws, like “don’t block the highway,” “don’t bike lock people you disagree with in the head,” and “don’t mob people while shrieking ‘peaceful protest! peaceful protest!’ at the top of your lungs.”
I find it interesting that the U.S. Marshals (bless ’em) found the guy, and not the local cops. Perhaps the mayor had a pressing need for dozens of cops to keep an eye on her office plants, which ‘interfered’ with their investigation work.
It is a shame he died. The Dems would have made real asses of themselves trying to nuance things when he was put on trial. Oh well.
The Wheeler of Portland and the city government are paying for the housing of some of the Antifa/BLM that have been “mostly peacefully protesting” for 3 months now.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/09/04/this-is-where-they-house-the-rioters-city-of-portland-houses-some-antifa-rioters-destroying-the-city-n887361
Reuters [spit] described Reinoehl as “an anti-fascist activist”.
Saw a picture on the web of him and his 13 year old daughter, apparently at a “protest”. She had an aluminum baseball bat over her shoulder.
Meanwhile, Reinoehl’s own sister reportedly commented on his demise with, “I wouldn’t say at this point that this counts as bad news.”
Wow, if true, that really points to what a toxic person he was.
From my brushes with activists of various types, from uber-feminists to flaming gays to trans totalitarians, I’ve long noticed a combination of narcissistic/borderline personality disorder and/or oppositional-defiant disorder.
Like, one trans person who was on a bbs with me decades ago said once that they were always even as a child violently opposed to everything: rules, bedtime, school, parents, you name it. Given that, I’m not really surprised that gender norms were just the adult version.
Add that to “it’s all about MEEEE”, “look what you made me do”, and “look how OUTRAGEOUS I am!”
I know this is an older post, but I can’t help but observe:
“District Attorney Mike Schmidt said on Sept. 4:
“The events of Thursday night are still being investigated by multiple law enforcement agencies. We still do not have a full understanding of what led to the death of Michael Forest Reinoehl. The loss of life is tragic. It has a profound impact on families, friends and community members.”
Reinoehl was apparently pulled over in June for speeding. He had an unregistered handgun in the car. He also had his 11 year old daughter in the car. He was driving at 111 mph. Why? Because he was having a friendly race – with another car. Driven by his 17 year-old son. He was arrested and then released for COVID reasons.
Then he gets arrested at a riot in August. He has another unregistered firearm, illegal possession. He’s released by the DA the same night.
Then: He goes to his 17-year-old son and buys another handgun for a bag of weed and some cash. This is allegedly the .380 caliber murder weapon he later used, I think it was the same day.
And now we get to see the crocodile tears of this DA as he weeps for his policies – and then signs the release papers for today’s rioters, I guess. People of Portland: Are you still thinking of yourselves as human beings? Still lovin’ the whole Keep-it-weird hippie vibes>?
Meanwhile his grieving kid gets to also process that he sold a weapon to his dad for a pre-meditated murder, for a bag of weed. Nice legacy, dad. Take a bow DA Schmidt, as you work toward your ‘full understanding’.
“Mike Schmidt is Multnomah County’s new District Attorney. Mike has a bold, progressive vision to dramatically improve the fairness, effectiveness and cost of our criminal justice system. He also has a proven record of working on innovative approaches to reduce incarceration and address racial and economic disparities in the criminal justice system.”
Schmidt and the “We” of whom he speaks, whoever they are, are deliberately ignorant of facts. They really believe De Nial is a river in Egypt. That is his bold progressive vision.
I have learned that whenever the word fair, or fairness, is used, it is a signal to man the battle stations.