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“If you want to come here and fight somebody, and you’ve got somebody in mind, and they agree, can you do us all a favor? Rent a boxing ring.”

Throughout the session, held inside a northeast church, people booed, jeered, clapped and cheered.

By his own admission, he came to Portland and hit someone in the face.

“It is imperative that we come together to hear people’s concerns and ideas,” Chief Danielle Outlaw said.

“In my opinion, these text messages appear to cross several boundaries,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said.

The texts show that Lt. Jeff Niiya had a friendly rapport with far-right organizer Joey Gibson.

Right-wing extremists who have been targeting the IWW House for a week called the vandalism a “false flag,” despite repeated threats on social media.

The most read stories on wweek.com show a year of comeuppances, closures and clobberings.

Let’s go, Portland Protesters!

The settlement could provide a national model for holding extremists responsible for hate speech and bullying online.