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Mob rule.

Barbella

Senator
This mayor was elected to represent all the people in his city. In his official capacity he now chooses who to protect in a public safety situation. He needs to be arrested for obstructing justice and putting citizens in harms way, not to mention ignoring the citizens who were attacked. ICE employees are citizens in that community.

Disgusting abuse of power, and neglect of his duties. He should be impeached.
 

freyasman

Senator
No, no, no. The use of troops is a short step from marshal law. Since we can never be sure just who will be in power we need that to remain a long step.
I would file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Portland and name the mayor and the police chief. From the info I've seen so far, it should be a slam-dunk.
 

LeilaniMP

Empress
Someone cut and paste the story, please. I don't want to subscribe to the WSJ just to read one article.
Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing
A vicious mob targeted the ICE office and even a food cart. The police followed orders to do nothing.
Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE’s immediate abolition. They’re gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.

A mob surrounded ICE’s office in Southwest Portland June 19. They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. They sent “guards” to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. Police stayed away. “At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. The facility shut down for more than a week.

Signs called ICE employees “Nazis” and “white supremacists.” Others accused them of running a “concentration camp,” and demanded open borders and prosecution of ICE agents. Along a wall, vandals wrote the names of ICE staff, encouraging others to publish their private information online.

Federal workers were defenseless. An ICE officer, who asked that his name not be published, told me one of his colleagues was trailed in a car and confronted when he went to pick up his daughter from summer camp. Later people showed up at his house. Another had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the “Gestapo.”

Where were the police? Ordered away by Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler, who doubles as police commissioner. “I do not want the @PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, particularly from a federal agency that I believe is on the wrong track,” he tweeted. “If [ICE is] looking for a bailout from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.”

The mob set up camp behind the building, where they harassed journalists and banned photography. The open-borders advocates also erected an 8-foot wall around their site. I walked through and saw young children, including infants, in squalid conditions and 90-degree heat. Every American flag was defaced. Anarchist and communist flags were unsoiled.

Stuart Lindquist, the ICE facility’s 79-year-old landlord, visited his property on June 21. “The political powers in the city of Portland have stopped the police from doing what they normally would do,” he told me. When he attempted to drive into the parking lot, occupiers swarmed and pounded his windows. In the commotion, Mr. Lindquist’s car struck someone in the mob, who wasn’t injured. His home address later appeared online, and he says the harassment hasn’t stopped.


On June 28 federal police mobilized from out of state finally moved to reopen the office. They arrested a handful of people for refusing to leave the ICE office’s front, but the rest retreated to the camp and focused their vitriol on the officers. They repeatedly called a black officer “traitor” and “house n—.” They shouted that they knew where the officers lived, and published more addresses online.

The same day Mayor Wheeler again pledged not to intervene. In a statement, he whitewashed the lawless behavior: “I join those outraged by ICE actions separating parents from their children, and support peaceful protest to give voice to our collective moral conscience.”

The Hakes family, which owns the Happy Camper food cart across the street from ICE’s office, responded to the statement with incredulity. The mob “terrorized our family” and forced the business to close, Julie Hakes told me. Ms. Hakes showed me text messages from her 21-year-old daughter, Brianna, who ran the cart. “Just saw a drug deal,” Brianna reported early on. After members of the anti-ICE mob spotted her selling breakfast burritos to federal officers, the situation deteriorated. “Call me immediately!” Brianna wrote after being accused of “supporting the pigs” and “child deportation.” She said people wearing masks threatened to hurt her and burn down the cart, and the police never responded to their frantic calls.

Randy Glary, a 52-year-old artist and longtime resident, was photographing the camp when he said a group of occupiers knocked his camera into his face. Charles Williams, a 62-year-old man who lives across the street, said someone threatened to stab him with an “AIDS-infected needle.” From his balcony, he saw the “thugs” begin masked street patrols. Others brandished sticks. Lisa Leonard, a 53-year-old disabled resident, said occupiers hit her on her head, disabled her electric wheelchair, and lifted her in the air when she complained about loud drumming. She called police, who took a statement but made no arrests.

The locals who spoke to me all wondered why the city allowed this and ignored their calls for intervention. Peter Simpson, a public-information officer with the Portland Police Bureau, explained that “at the mayor’s direction, PPB involvement was very limited” until July 25.

Back at the trolley tracks, the occupiers have been evicted but taxpayers will have to foot the costly cleanup bill. The Hakes family is still trying to recover. Brianna has decided to move out of the neighborhood. “They know my face and car,” she said. Like other residents I spoke to, she expects the mob to return.

Mr. Ngo is an editor at Quillette.
 

sear

Mayor
"What kind of country have we become when the police ignore the citizenry?" TO #2
Republican controlled legislative & exec., w/ a SCOTUS soon to follow.

We share your chagrin.

Goldwater's skeleton is doing about 40 RPM in the casket right now.
 

John Doe

I detest liberalism
Leftist only follow what laws THEY choose. Leftist mentality is juvenile, spoiled and entitled. Stomp their wuttle feet and DEMAND they get that toy.
 

John Doe

I detest liberalism
Republican controlled legislative & exec., w/ a SCOTUS soon to follow.

We share your chagrin.

Goldwater's skeleton is doing about 40 RPM in the casket right now.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with this thread.
 

freyasman

Senator
If the cops are staying clear, then the residents of Portland should have rolled down there and started breaking heads, and burning them out.... you know, taking the kind of action that you should never want your local law doing. Cops stepping away provides an opportunity to fix this shit. This is a problem best solved by men with pick handles, ball bats, and a few shotguns. And some gas and road flares.
The residents of a community have a responsibility here as well as the mayor and the police chief, IMO; while the public officials are duty bound to follow the law, it's the residents who should keep order.

Not everything is someone else's job.... sometimes you need to shut up and go do your own work.
 

EatTheRich

President
The mayor and the police are scared ... what can you do? You’d rather have the police confront the protesters, get publicly routed by them, and relinquish control of the city streets once and for all? Great!
 

sear

Mayor
"Which has absolutely nothing to do with this thread." JD #16

"What kind of country have we become when the police ignore the citizenry?
The backlash has got to be coming at some point. And when it does..........look out!" TO #2
"Which has absolutely nothing to do with this thread." JD #16

Obviously you haven't gotten the news yet.

The Republican party has temporarily seized full control of U.S. federal government.
- They control the legislature, via Speaker Ryan (R), & Majority Leader McConnell (R).
- They control the exec. via President Trump (R).

This topic is titled:

Mob rule

and includes the words

Sad.
Anarchy.

I understand. Republican anarchists are not prepared to accept responsibility for the consequences of their own leadership dysfunction.

But know it or not, believe it or not, like it or not, admit it or not; "the buck stops here."

The Republican party earns the credit, where credit is due, and deserves the blame, in cases like that cited by PF #1.
"Which has absolutely nothing to do with this thread." JD #16

Ghanga much?
 
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