Kicked in the Skull by Love
Jim Goad
August 24, 2020
If you’re wondering what a typical night in downtown Portland, OR is like in the summer of 2020, this 32-minute video is a good primer. It was filmed just before 10:30 PM on Sunday, August 16. I watched the video twice so you don’t need to even endure it once. Timestamps are approximate and not exact, except for Marquise Love’s kick to Adam Haner’s head, which happened exactly at the 29-minute mark. Admitting that my vision is not perfect, I will describe what I saw:
0:18…A very, very, VERY light-skinned black male who subsequently identified himself as Marquise Love and a few darker accomplices start escorting a male of indeterminate racial origin—could be white, could be Hispanic, could be mulatto, I’m supposed to be an expert but even I can’t tell—out of the park after accusing him of recording the festivities without their approval. Their mien and words are threatening: “We gonna follow whatever car you get into, too.†The unidentified male is compliant and submissive and endlessly apologetic as he walks away from them. As he’s crossing a street toward a 7-Eleven, one of the black males starts punching him, anyway. Someone shouts that the victim is a “racist,†which apparently is enough these days to justify murder. Marquise Love shouts “Get that bleep!†as they’re attacking him.
https://www.takimag.com/article/kicked-in-the-skull-by-love/
