Nancy Rommelmann: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Nancy Rommelmann on Portland and antifa
2:30 – Why Nancy went back to Portland for Reason
6:03 – Why Portland and why now?
8:47 – The violent element at peaceful marches
12:39 – Young people out of school with nothing to do
15:47 – A struggling restaurant and buckets of diarrhea
18:32 – What counts as peaceful protest?
22:15 – The elastic definition of violence
26:11 – Cheering a killing in the street
29:23 – Breonna Taylor and every death deserving justice
32:39 – Antifa's platform and defunding the police
35:34 – The city council votes to ban hate groups
38:12 – Hoping cold weather ends it
41:00 – A bar owner turned into the enemy
43:45 – Fear and the mayoral election
46:37 – Young people who don't own anything
50:14 – Lou's Spiked piece on the Proud Boys
53:18 – Trump's debate answer on white supremacy
56:16 – The world is bigger than two groups clashing
58:48 – Movements attract unwanted people
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Nancy Rommelmann, author of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, has been covering the unrest in Portland for Reason. She joins Lou to talk about PDX, the Proud Boys, Antifa, and what counts as peaceful protest.
We also get into the violent element at peaceful marches, young people out of school with nothing to do, a struggling restaurant and buckets of diarrhea, the elastic definition of violence, cheering a killing in the street, Antifa's platform and defunding the police, the city council's vote to ban hate groups, a bar owner turned into the enemy, Lou's Spiked piece on the Proud Boys, and Trump's debate answer on white supremacy.