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2020-07-23 Fifth Column
Feds tear-gas Portland mayor Ted Wheeler at police brutality protest
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Posted by Fred 2020-07-23 09:26|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#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||   2020-07-23 09:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 09:39|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 09:52|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Too bad he wasn't hit by a bean bag.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-23 11:25||   2020-07-23 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems this shepherd's sheep may have some wolves.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-23 11:31||   2020-07-23 11:31|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 11:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Bingo Bobby!
Posted by warthogswife 2020-07-23 11:56||   2020-07-23 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Mostly peaceful arson attack on the courthouse
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-23 12:03||   2020-07-23 12:03|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 12:04|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 12:09|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 13:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Do it a couple more times, just to be sure it takes.
Posted by Iblis 2020-07-23 14:25||   2020-07-23 14:25|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 15:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Teargas a commie for mommy.
Posted by Cromoth Sheatch5463 2020-07-23 16:24||   2020-07-23 16:24|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 16:45|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 16:49|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 17:59|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 19:18|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ be like shooting the eye out of a snake at 100 yds.
Posted by Lumpy Smith2959 2020-07-23 19:21||   2020-07-23 19:21|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-23 19:56|| Front Page Top

#22 Cool!
Posted by Clem 2020-07-23 23:17||   2020-07-23 23:17|| Front Page Top

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