Portland has long struggled to end the cycle of extremist violence

In the 1980s and early 90s, neo-Nazi and anti-racist skinheads frequently clashed in the streets of Portland. OPB’s Conrad Wilson and investigative reporter Bryan Denson team up to tell the story of Jon Bair, who shot and killed Erik Banks in 1993. It’s one of the rare instances in this country of someone on the far left killing someone on the far right.

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