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2020-06-10 -Lurid Crime Tales-
A Wall Goes Up Around Portland City Hall
[RedState] The Portland Tribune reports that a wall is being built around Portland City Hall. The reason this is so delightfully ironic is because the city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, gave an inspiring speech last year which he titled, “Building Bridges, Not Walls.”

On the occasion of Martin Luther King Day, the far-left mayor told the crowd, “The reality is that we’re living at a time where at the federal level, we have an administration that’s seeking to build a wall to divide us…We have a president who emboldens racist behavior.”

According to The Tribune:

Wooden walls are being erected around City Hall and the Portland Building to protect them from vandalism.

According to Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office, despite other fencing that was put up last week, both buildings continue to be marked with graffiti each night of the ongoing protests.

“Cleaning the buildings each day is taking public resources, particularly due to the limestone surface at City Hall. We are looking into the possibility of partnering with the arts community to create murals on the plywood in support of the racial justice movement,” Wheeler’s office told the Portland Tribune.

Protests have taken place downtown for more than 11 nights in a row following the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Although the most intense activity has taken place at the Justice Center, other buildings have been repeatedly vandalized, too, including the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and Pioneer Place.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-10 03:09|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
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#1 Aren't these the same people who objected to the wall on our southern border? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-10 04:30||   2020-06-10 04:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr Antifa tear down that wall!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-10 04:39||   2020-06-10 04:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Bet they'll not cut the police in THAT area.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-10 04:40||   2020-06-10 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4 ^The guards of lord's castle city hall will not be police - the only law they'll enforce will be "attacking city hall is a capital offence".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-10 05:07||   2020-06-10 05:07|| Front Page Top

#5 My-oh-my, the hypocrisy of it all. So Mr. Mayor, walls are necessary then? Are you going to scrap the sanctuary city nonsense too? That's very much a "no walls concept." These lefties are so inconsistent.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-10 09:02||   2020-06-10 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought walls were racist.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-06-10 09:06||   2020-06-10 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 And sexist - women can't climb as well as men.
Posted by Raj 2020-06-10 09:56||   2020-06-10 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 And the wall is already coming down.
In a statement, the city said that while the wall was intended to protect the building and minimize expenses, the city needed to “hear our community’s demands for racial justice, even when those demands take the form of spray paint.”
Posted by Matt 2020-06-10 10:33||   2020-06-10 10:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps the wall is meant to keep them in?
Posted by Mercutio 2020-06-10 10:41||   2020-06-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 In that case, fill it with water.
Posted by gorb 2020-06-10 10:48||   2020-06-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Or cement
Posted by DarthVader 2020-06-10 12:29||   2020-06-10 12:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Do I remember someone saying walls don't work? Clearing up the cognitive dissonance on that one must have been heart wrenching.
Posted by gorb 2020-06-10 14:12||   2020-06-10 14:12|| Front Page Top

#13 My dad use to opine that eventually it will be required by law that you let anyone into your house who knocks on the door and you will then have to leave if they tell you to.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-10 14:37||   2020-06-10 14:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Gentlemen, gentlemen. Remain calm. Let the stories of sanctuary and representation for the homeless go about.

Caesar at Alesia, when the contravallation rose.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-10 15:21||   2020-06-10 15:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Thats why you have plastic covering the new couch.
Posted by bbrewer126  2020-06-10 16:16||   2020-06-10 16:16|| Front Page Top

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