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Portland mayor condemns rioters for 'attempting to commit murder'
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:43 pm
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Thursday evening condemned the actions of rioters who attempted to set fire to a police precinct and blocked the exits while officers were inside.
“When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder," Wheeler said in a news conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.
"Don’t think for a moment that you are if you are participating in this activity, you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump — because you absolutely are," he said. "You are creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign. If you don’t want to be part of that, then don’t show up.”
The front doors of the precinct were barricaded before the fire was started with more than 20 officers and civilian employees inside, police said, according to FOX 12.
Officers used tear gas to disperse the rioters and at least eight people were arrested. A federal court order bars police from using tear gas unless a riot is declared.
“I believe that city staff could have died last night,” Wheeler said. “I cannot and I will not tolerate that. This is not peaceful protests. This is not advocacy to advance reforms.”
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The clashes between thousands of protesters and federal agents sent by the Trump administration to guard the federal courthouse stopped after an agreement between Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that called for the agents to begin drawing down their presence in Portland’s downtown on July 30.
Then some instigators moved on to other police buildings across the city to cause problems.
Wednesday night’s violence in a residential neighborhood on the east side of the city began after a group of about 100 people gathered in a nearby park for a rally advertised on social media by the group Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front with the slogan “No cops. No prisons. Total abolition." The group then marched to the precinct.
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Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
NOW he wants to condemn them?!
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
I guess he's done beating off to the rioters?
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:46 pm to RLDSC FAN
I hope they kill Ted Wheeler.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:48 pm to RLDSC FAN
Has Donald tweeted about those remarks yet?
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
so the real concern is that Trump can use this in his ads?
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
He’s waived all rights to complain about anything the rioters do.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:50 pm to RLDSC FAN
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will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign.
Has nothing to do with the people who could have been killed. This is why he suddenly cares.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:51 pm to RLDSC FAN
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You are creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign.
It’s only August, but they are already floating excuses if Biden loses in November.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Portland mayor condemns protestors for 'attempting to commit murder'
FIFY.
This post was edited on 8/7/20 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:53 pm to lsuhunt555
Too little too late Mayor.
You can't condemn them and try reign in that trash now. And to try to plead that it gives Trump a platform in his political ads is fricking hilarious.
You can't condemn them and try reign in that trash now. And to try to plead that it gives Trump a platform in his political ads is fricking hilarious.
This post was edited on 8/7/20 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:55 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Don’t think for a moment that you are if you are participating in this activity, you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump
TDS is real.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:55 pm to Lynxrufus2012
quote:the left is been floating the idea that Trump and the Russians are behind the rioters causing violence so that in the near future you can anticipate
so the real concern is that Trump can use this in his ads?
trump and the Russians paid people to burn and riot so they could scare Americans
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:55 pm to RLDSC FAN
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“When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder," Wheeler said in a news conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.
Sounds like this guy is stuck in the trap of white culture.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
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you are attempting to commit murder," Wheeler said in a news conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.
"Don’t think for a moment that you are if you are participating in this activity, you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump — because you absolutely are," he said. "You are creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign. If you don’t want to be part of that, then don’t show up.”
i cant tell if he's more mad about the arson/attempted murder or just the fact that arson/attempted murder might help Trump...
this level of Orange Man Bad/TDS is off the charts
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:57 pm to RLDSC FAN
He was happy with it until he finally learned how bad it is hurting the Dems. Sucks for him
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:58 pm to RLDSC FAN
Rioters try to burn down cops then this turd immediately links it to a guy getting re-elected.
Again. What in trump’s actual policy/platform even comes close to people burning down cities and rioting in terms of damage done to any particular market.
Again. What in trump’s actual policy/platform even comes close to people burning down cities and rioting in terms of damage done to any particular market.
This post was edited on 8/7/20 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:59 pm to RLDSC FAN
Too little too late motherfricker. The Trump campaign already has all the footage they need.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 12:59 pm to RLDSC FAN
So Trump was correct.
Time to roll the footage non-stop.
Time to roll the footage non-stop.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 1:03 pm to carhartt
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He’s waived all rights to complain about anything the rioters do.
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