The Dems don’t even hide their support for criminals. The majority of Oregon is very likely going to vote blue this November. How? What rational person would cast a vote to support this? Its shocking.
Portland Mayor Says Let Violence ‘Burn Itself Out’ as Police Detail Nightly Destruction
By Breitbart, August 27, 2020
Story continues below advertisementPortland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler responded almost nonchalantly to NPR when asked about the nightly violent riots in his city that have injured countless police officers, destroyed property, and shuttered businesses.
“[The protest] will ultimately burn itself out,” Wheeler told the local public radio station last week.
The Free Beacon reported on Wheeler’s stance, which did not condemn the violence:
Wheeler told OPR [Oregon Public Radio] reporter Rebecca Ellis last week that he expects daily protests in the city—which began in May following the death of George Floyd—to last for some time. He said he expects nightly violence that followed the protests “will ultimately burn itself out.”
The mayor, who is in charge of Portland’s police force, told OPR the department will adjust to the situation on its own.
“They’ve tried everything from not showing up to preemptively dispersing crowds, and some of those strategies, in my opinion, have worked well,” Wheeler said. “Others have not worked well.”
“Wheeler previously proposed to top aides a ‘high-risk’ policing approach in which police would be ordered to stand down and not respond to rioters,” the Beacon reported. “He never put those measures into effect, leaving local police without clear directives in dealing with crowds, whether they are rioting, looting businesses, or setting fire to government buildings.”
Press Release: Building Vandalized, Officer Injured by Large Rock Projectile leads to Unlawful Assembly Declaration Outside of ICE Building (Photo)
Link: https://t.co/9te7UiQWLd pic.twitter.com/psmVMquRZi— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 27, 2020
In a Thursday press release about the ongoing mayhem and arrests that continue to take place on a nightly basis, including attacking federal property, Portland police said:
After a couple hundred individuals blocked traffic outside of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building, a couple people in the group vandalized and disabled security cameras affixed to the building. Federal Protection Officers emerged from the building and were struck by projectiles, including a rock which injured one of the officers, prompting an unlawful assembly and several arrests. Many in the crowd carried shields, wore helmets, gas masks, and body armor.
As Federal Protection Officers stood outside of the ICE building, people were seen flashing lasers at their eyes. Others in the crowd were seen throwing projectiles such as eggs, bottles, and rocks at the Federal Protection Officers. One of the Federal Protection Officers was hit with a rock, striking their leg, and injuring them. Due to the seriousness of the crowd’s criminal behavior, the incident commander determined that the event was an unlawful assembly.
After targeted arrests were made, to reduce the intensity of the situation, PPB officers disengaged. As PPB officers disengaged, people in the group continued to throw rocks at officers.
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Good advice.
If you’re the mayor of Caracas or Tijuana!
Permission slip.
He said he expects nightly violence that followed the protests “will ultimately burn itself out.”
He’s correct, sooner or later they’ll burn all of Portland to the ground. And most of Portland voters will deserve it…
Insanity of the Left, meanwhile these Politicans surround themselves with ARMED Law Enforcement officer.
When Portland is burned to the ground, there will be nothing left to burn. The mayor will be the mayor of nothing.
Or they will burn him, too and he deserves it
Good idea, I’d shell out good money to see that on pay per view
He is already dead politically.
Throwing rocks at people is attempted murder.
….at the very least….assault and battery.
LOL. Burn itself out?
It’s been going on every night for three months.
Asinine.
Right and it was the summer of love in Seattle. They get dumber by the day.
These states that allowed this…..just lost every dime of their tourist business. You couldn’t pay me to vacation in one these places.
The only place in Washington I would visit is a friend’s in Yakima. Sgt. Char 4 tours in Iraq. She takes no prisoners.
Soon, they will begin burning down city hall and all the government buildings. Then they will progress to the homes of government leaders, and employees. All done in the name of communist revolution.
….I think that is mostly done or almost finished.
If any of those people want to cross into other states to move where you are…..stop them at the border. I can attest that they will bring their stinking politics with them.
You will be “Portland” within 3 years.
Didn’t they get the memo from Dim Lemon? It’s wrecking the Dems poll numbers.
…that is the upside of these tragedies……it’s a preview of what is to come if President Trump doesn’t win in 2020…..a lot of people are going to be reconsidering their votes thanks to the Dims, BLM, ANTIFA, and Soros…..
It does have high value, not just for polls, but now in arrests. It comes at the cost of life and injuries. The whole mess needs to be clean up with votes.
Didn’t they get the memo from Dim Lemon? It’s wrecking the Dems poll numbers.
Let Oregon and Washington do as they want until the state turns red. 🙂
The bam start was 3 months ago and they do breed like rats. The bums that feed them in these states need to voted out.
Covid and a few unusual police actions are the “justifications” for the dem`s plan to destroy America in order to “save” it. Pure Orwell!
The only way that the mayhem in Portland will “burn itself out” will be when there is nothing left to burn. That shooting in Kenosha, where the shooter is claiming self-defense, is only the tip of the iceberg
The Mayor said it honestly enough: some of Portland efforts worked well; some did not. What is missing is: “Worked well for whom?”
ROCKS ARE LETHAL WEAPONS!
The Police should be allowed to treat these DOMESTIC TERRORIST with the due “rspct – 0b0z0” they have earned!
The mayor is a fken criminal and should be put in jail!
….and someone is paying him under the table or they have some dirt on him….none of this makes sense to just let people destroy your city and state…and harm your citizens.
@MayorTedWheeler this is classic. You’re one of the minority with the majority over statements of stupidity. Please explain for those of us less enlightened how the violence will burn itself out? Do you mean when orders come in from the DNC, Antifa, BLM, Soros that quiet is needed or it’s working against the movement stop. Is this what you mean? How many ordinary, peace loving Portlanders who just want to live their life need to die while your awaiting for the violence to burn itself out? What a lug head, or worse diabolical schemer! YOU SHOULD BE ARESTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE!! @DOJ
@POTUS This is why we have police forces when properly used and National Guards, and assistance from Federal Law Enforcement Agencies. It works! Political hack mayors who don’t want to follow suit hurt their citizens, city infrastructure, drive out business, city revenue and tax base and kill their city.
I’m confused. Once a Gov, a Mayor, etc., refuses to protect their citizens….aren’t the Feds allowed to come in no matter if they are asked or not? I know for a fact that these elected officials take a vow to uphold the Constitution of their states…..but also of the United States.
I am not only a citizen of the state….I’m a citizen of the USA….that is Federal.
Nice choice of words, eh?
The Portland Mayor is a leftist antifa fool and refuses to protect the citizens of Portland and stop the violence. The rioters need to be put down hard and maybe it’s time for conservative citizens to take over and quell the violence and restore order.
Don’t lose sight that the driving force behind all the insurrection , riots and attacks is islam! islams ultimate focus is the destruction of Western Civilization and the introduction of Sharia!!!!
Most Americans haven’t figured that out yet. They are too afraid of being called “racists”. Funny how a meaningless untrue word can put the fear of hell into them.
To the Citizens of Portland……how do you like your Mayor and City Council now?
Is there a recall movement yet?
Don’t know what planet this morons from – but criminals don’t just go away – they continue to look for new ” opportunities ” hopefully its in his neighborhood – but then he’s probably got round the clock armed security – He’s going to completely destroy the economy of portland – no business is going to risk opening there.
Mayor Wheeler, in your infinite wisdom how long do think it will take for the Wheeler Riot to burn itself out? How many more businesses will go under and families ruined just because you’re too chicken-s__t to do your job? What an embarrassment to humanity!
As long as these “peaceful protesters” are dressed in black and/or wearing black face masks; AND THEY ARE ALL MIXING AND MINGLING WITH THEIR VIOLENT CO-CONSPIRATORS ALSO DRESSED IN BLACK WITH FULL-FACE COVERINGS, THEY CAN, SHOULD AND WILL FACE THE SAME BRUTAL END-OF-LIFE OUTCOME!
There will NEVER be any resolution, solution or cure for their anarchy, violence, treason, arson, looting and murder. Without Rule of Law, there will only be complete criminal chaos. Our “Thin Blue Line” is the only safety net we have left. Take it away; and, the streets will be filled with fetid rotting corpses. Seattle, Portland, Chicago, et al.; reap what you sow!
These degenerate, vile, immoral, foul-mouthed, disrespectful, loathsome, and without a shred of common decency, compassion or remorse, FERAL SAVAGES have all been programmed and brainwashed with their Marxist core beliefs from K-1 through college; and no effort to, or attempt at, re-programming of their malevolent brains will ever succeed!
They are totally ‘LOST GENERATIONS’ of sub-human flotsam and putrid decaying Satanic detritus.
AND, IMO, all Anti-American politicians, bureaucrats, Marxist Democrats and MSM liars and anarchist Propagandists, who encourage, support, endorse, enable, promote and fund this BLM MARXIST & ANTIFA’s US Government OVERTHROW violent insurrection, must suffer this same fate. There is no place in the civilized world for their continued existence: breathing MY AIR and EATING MY FOOD.
Their riots are OUR KILLING FIELDS for open season on these domestic terrorists; and they must all (the Marxists and their wannabe sympathizers) be exterminated and piled deep in the Sonoran Desert for coyote’s, vulture’s and desert rat’s consumption. Lock and load!
FYI: William Bruce Mumford (December 5, 1819[1] – June 7, 1862) was a North Carolinian native and resident of New Orleans, who was hanged for TREASON for the tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War. Killing BLM & ANTIFA dead where they stand seems reasonable, NECESSARY and justified.
Just think….sooner or later the “protesters” may throw a rock like that and hit someone Wheeler does care about in the head. Wife, kids, family, friend, same-sex lover–hey, he’s a flaming liberal, right ?? Maybe that’s what it would take for him to either stop the insanity himself or give Trump the ok to send the feds in.
But he is moving to get away from the rioters! YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE THIS KIND OF IDIOCY UP !!!