“I had no choice. I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn’t going to do that,” he said in the video, adding he feared he would be stabbed.
Bystander video showed two men approaching Danielson and a friend, one saying “Hey, we got one over here, we got a couple over here,” and another “Pull it out,” before two shots were fired.
“I was confident that I did not hit anyone innocent. And I made my exit,” Reinhoel said in the Vice interview.
He was previously cited for carrying a loaded gun at a July 5 Portland protest, resisting arrest and interfering with police, according to The Oregonian newspaper. The charges were subsequently dropped, the newspaper reported.
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