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Home Front: Politix
Portland: Riots Resume, Governor Chastises the Police
2020-07-05
Andy Ngo's Twitter account is the ground truth, but here is what the Oregonian is trying to sell.
Gov. Kate Brown on Friday urged the Portland Police Bureau to de-escalate nightly tensions with a group of protesters that she said have "repeatedly taken to the streets with the intent to destroy property."

While she noted that "this group has repeatedly lit fires, thrown rocks, bottles, fireworks and other objects and have put the safety of others at risk," Brown said the police response has gone too far.
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Posted by:Matt

#13  Too masculine to be ISIS.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-07-05 19:49  

#12  Looks a lot like ISIS marching
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2020-07-05 17:29  

#11  This is not that difficult. This is not a police situation. Police who are easy targets are easily identifiable by the mob being attacked by the leftist militia with faces hidden from view. A domestic clandestine guerilla element needs to be estaalished to counter this militant insurgency in unorthodoxed ways.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119   2020-07-05 15:21  

#10  And abolish DAs and states' attorneys general and their apparatus.

Of course, those things exist to keep us in line, so it won't happen.
Posted by: charger   2020-07-05 14:51  

#9  I'd go a step further. If the state isn't going to police crime anymore, abolish the criminal courts.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-07-05 13:34  

#8  Just enact a Defunded Police Zone in a 5 mile radius surrounding the Governor and Portland Mayor.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-07-05 13:16  

#7  ^That too.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-07-05 12:56  

#6  Darth, and the governor's Praetorian Guard protective detail should be called away to assist in riot control.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2020-07-05 12:19  

#5  The police should just state they won't respond to calls to stop it and they won't respond to calls in the neighborhood the Governor lives.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-07-05 12:02  

#4  If the 'peaceful protesters' allow the rioters and looters in their 'peaceful protest', then it is *not* a peaceful protest and they are not 'peaceful protesters'.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-07-05 11:58  

#3  I don't think it will be long before property loss "due to law enforcement stand-down" will not be covered in most property insurance policies, or if it is covered it will be only via an added-cost rider to the standard policy.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-07-05 11:06  

#2  These riots will probably continue on until election time unless something/somebody intervenes to break things loose. The problem is that those prone to violence, looting and arson piggy-back onto peaceful protests. This is a tactic that has been used for a long time by extremists.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-07-05 10:57  

#1  Oddly, neither Governor Brown nor Mayor Wheeler has appeared at the scene of the "protests" to calm things down. Leadership from the command post twenty miles behind the lines.
Posted by: Matt   2020-07-05 10:31  

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