Portland, Oregon, had been a hotbed for political clashes between the far left and the far right for years before 2020. 

Sean Kealiher was among the people who regularly took to the streets to fight — sometimes physically — with people who opposed Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements. 

We look at who was in the streets leading up to one of the most significant years in American protests. 

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