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| Feds tear-gas Portland mayor Ted Wheeler at police brutality protest |
| 2020-07-23 |
| [NYPOST] After being tear-gassed when he joined a crowd protesting police brutality, the mayor of Portland said he "saw nothing that provoked this response" — even as rioters set the federal courthouse ablaze. "I’m not gonna lie, it stings, it’s hard to breathe, and I can tell you with 100 percent honesty I saw nothing that provoked this response," Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a video shot by a news hound. The Democrat, who said it was the first time he’d been gassed, coughed and drank water as he put on a pair of goggles someone handed him while surrounded by a phalanx of journalists. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... rioters ignited a large blaze in the space between a nearby fence and the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse — accidentally setting ablaze one of their comrades — as federal agents continued firing tear gas and stun grenades into the frenzied crowd. "It’s nasty stuff, I’m not afraid but I am pissed off," Wheeler said. "This is an egregious overreaction on the part of the federal officers. There was nothing that I saw anybody do that warranted this reaction." It wasn’t immediately clear if the federal officers were aware the mayor was in the crowd when they used the tear gas. "As you can see, all it’s done is piss everybody off. It’s made everybody angry. They’ve come in and they kicked the hornet’s nest. This is not a de-escalation strategy. This is flat-out urban warfare and it’s being brought on the people of this country by the president of the United States," the Democratic mayor continued. "This is a threat to our democracy," added the mayor, who arrived about 9 p.m. Wednesday to chants of "F— Ted Wheeler!" and "Do your job!" Camouflage-clad agents from the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies were deployed to the city last week to protect federal monuments and buildings after nearly two months of demonstrations over police brutality and racism. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #22 Cool! |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-23 23:17 |
| #21 #19 - assuming Xer sex is verboten. By actions, it proves those were demonstratively removed years ago |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-23 19:56 |
| #20 ^ be like shooting the eye out of a snake at 100 yds. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Smith2959 2020-07-23 19:21 |
| #19 Too bad a canister didn't bounce off the pavement and hit him square in the balls. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-07-23 19:18 |
| #18 Via InstaPundit ‘He’s Lying’: Eyewitness Calls Out Portland Mayor Over Fabricated Tear Gas Incident Holton argued Wheeler intentionally positioned himself “right in the middle” of the escalating clash. At that point, the CBN contributor recalled, federal agents began issuing loud warnings, notifying anyone in the middle of the mayhem — to include the mayor — that the protest had been declared a riot and they would soon begin exercising crowd-control measures. Those messages rang out “probably at least five times.” “And Ted Wheeler stayed right there, in the middle, in the center, in the front, where the tear gas would certainly be shot first — knowing he was about to be tear-gassed,” explained Holton. He added, “So the news you’re seeing that Ted Wheeler was viciously attacked and tear-gassed by federal agents without provocation is a lie. It’s wrong. I was there, and I actually have footage to prove it.” |
| Posted by: Cromoth Sheatch5463 2020-07-23 17:59 |
| #17 So - the MAYOR was one of the rioters who were trying to burn down the Federal Building? No, he didn't want to be seen as participating in riotous activity. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-07-23 16:49 |
| #16 Black Marine vet holds US flag high amid chaotic Portland protest, gets followed home by Antifa |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-23 16:45 |
| #15 Teargas a commie for mommy. |
| Posted by: Cromoth Sheatch5463 2020-07-23 16:24 |
| #14 Seen the video of him walking with His Heroes, and they are up in his face and throwing things at him? Good times. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-23 15:33 |
| #13 Do it a couple more times, just to be sure it takes. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-07-23 14:25 |
| #12 So - the MAYOR was one of the rioters who were trying to burn down the Federal Building? And no - if they are working to burn down a building, or tolerate and encourage those who do, they are not 'peaceful protesters - they are all rioters. And the mayor's active participation makes it more of an insurrection. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-07-23 13:29 |
| #11 "We didn't know it was the Mayor. Honest! If we did, we woulda gassed him twice." |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-07-23 12:09 |
| #10 De-escalation by removal and long jailing of criminals is a tried and tested solution. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-23 12:04 |
| #9 Mostly peaceful arson attack on the courthouse |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-23 12:03 |
| #8 Bingo Bobby! |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2020-07-23 11:56 |
| #7 This is flat-out urban warfare And it has been, Teddy, for the past two months. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-07-23 11:39 |
| #6 Seems this shepherd's sheep may have some wolves. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-23 11:31 |
| #5 Too bad he wasn't hit by a bean bag. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-07-23 11:25 |
| #4 my fav sentence in the post was, ... rioters ignited a large blaze in the space between a nearby fence and the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse — accidentally setting ablaze one of their comrades... |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-07-23 11:24 |
| #3 This is not a de-escalation strategy. And just how well have yours been working? Well enough to land you in the news next to Chicago and NY it seems. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-07-23 09:52 |
| #2 Probably half the useful idiots shot while kneeling next to a ditch in Russia believed it was just a very intense loyalty test right up to the moment the lights went out. I'd imagine mayor Ted is thinking that way. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-07-23 09:39 |
| #1 I'm 100% certain he was read to say "saw nothing that provoked this response" before he even arrived. Didn't matter what he saw. But then the Antifa mob chanted he was a fascist. Ball is in your court Mayor Ted. Do you continue to dance with the devil? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-07-23 09:32 |