- Logan's Burgers Lake Street: Property damage. Minneapolis city officials now say 700 buildings were damaged, burned or destroyed in the recent unrest following the death of George Floyd. Lights! The prime suspect in the shooting, self-described anti-fascist Michael Forest Reinoehl, was killed Thursday night by law enforcement. The stated goal of both antifa and Black Lives Matter is the destruction of the country of which the flag is a symbol. They faced no consequences. A group of Moms are chanting, Feds stay clear! The flag waving is a propaganda move for the cameras. Riots, however, are not protected speech. Portland police cited the figure during a recent news conference from a Portland Business Alliance survey of nearly 100 businesses about protest-related damages. Quick! Then the dads showed up at the riots. When we have each others back, we show who the real strength is. The biggest thing today thats changed is that you see people of all ages. On July 3. People watching Portlands antifa/Black Lives Matter riots have been appalled by the violence, lawbreaking and head-cracking. Wait, Is the Portland Mayor Still Blaming TRUMP for the 57 Nights of Antifa Riots? Welcome to Portland, with its white protesters cast for their newly announced production, the Wall of Vets, a collection of protesters who now call themselves military veterans. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Attorney General William P. Barr said protesters had used fireworks, Tasers, pellet guns and lasers to target federal officers in Portland. In January 2021, the owner paid . Send any friend a story. Its gaslighting writ large. The demonstrations that started in late May after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have divided residents and embarrassed the citys beleaguered Democratic mayor. Many charged in connection with violence surrounding last year's racial-justice protests have completed community service and won't be tried. Rioters in Portland set the city's Police Association office on fire during riots over the weekend. U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams condemned a journalist for refusing to call the violent attacks what they are. Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. #PortlandRiots. Unrest has been ongoing nationwide since George Floyd's death. While the post contains an element of truth, it presents a misleading comparison of the Freedom Convoy and Black Lives Matter protests. embarrassed the citys beleaguered Democratic mayor, centerpiece of Trumps law and order re-election campaign, was killed Thursday night by law enforcement, officials in suburban counties refused a call, left-wing groups demanding his resignation, protesters broke windows and set fires there. Victoria Taft is an award-winning journalist, writer and terrestrial radio talk host, heard in Seattle and on the rest of the Left Coast. We are FULLY supportive, but defer to the leadership of the Black organizers who have dedicated themselves to fighting for Black liberation & against state violence. Consider their statement their official legal disclaimer, even as they help put together IEDs and source green lasers for rioters. Portland and Chicago are completely different situations. Enforcing federal law is not by invitation. Stories abound about how you can help the organized riots are ubiquitous. They both want to tear down law enforcement and defund police because of high-profile cop killings that bring in big money from Democrats online fundraising tool Act Blue.. The rally turned into a riot . Eric Larsen, the interim police chief, said that of the 71 people who were charged in state or federal court with crimes related to the unrest, 42 people were residents of Kenosha. PORTLAND, OR Theres been reportedly another attempt at mimicking the antics and tactics of an autonomous zone in Portland but this time it was something much more sinister and violent. Other injuries included broken bones, hearing damage, eye damage, a dislocated shoulder, sprains, strains, and contusions.. These are . Anotherclaim surfaced Feb. 15 on Facebook. . By 11:00 p.m. on the 25 th, more exits from the building were said to have been barricaded on the precinct. Rose City Antifa writesin a tweet: since we see a lot of new folks coming out to the local protests (welcome! In this 28 May 2020 file photo, a protester gestures in front of the burning 3rd precinct building of the Minneapolis police department in Minneapolis. My friends got tear-gassed, time and time again. However, the post is wrong to claimprotesters saw no consequences in fact, over 10,000 protesters were arrested, most for low-level offenses. I dont think so., Here is a shield and a couple of gas masks from a rioter arrested in Portland. Who caused the violence at protests? Hey Twitter family, lets try and get @riotkitchen206 their food truck! Chaos is consuming Portland, Oregon. Now that the antifa hard cider hang out Cider Riot! is out of business, you can help out the organized Riot Ribs food cart to make food for hungry rioters. A large fire was ignited in the street outside of North Precinct, prompting some arrests during a protest Sunday night into Monday morning. Further down MLK at NE Jarrett, we found the looted business. The Seattle Police Department released partial body camera video that showed explosions erupting near officers and photographs of cuts and burns suffered by officers that they said were from explosives set off by the protesters. Fact check:Posts mislead about crowd size, peacefulness at Canada Freedom Convoy protest, Axios reported inSeptember2020that the Insurance Information Institute, which collects data from Property Claim Services and related firms, estimated that damages could total as much as 2 billion and possibly more.. They just put on a yellow shirt now for optics. Police casualties far exceed anything on the civilian side., The crowds have been largely peaceful and have included high school students, military veterans, off-duty lawyers and lines of mothers who call themselves the Wall of Moms., Mr. Barr acknowledged in response to questions from representatives that many protesters had remained peaceful. Donate to their GoFundMe! The entire Leftist monoculture has coalesced, [Watch] Portland Mayor Goes to Riot in Solidarity as Rioters Set Fire in His Honor, Related: Worst Mayors in America Demand Congress Stop Trump From Ruining Their Riots, doors of police precincts, and set the building, The Morning Briefing: Lori Lightfoot Goes From Historic First to Historic Loser. Arrests Are Plummeting. Since then, he's used his unique perspective to offer support and commentary about the criminal justice system. During the clashes, some have broken windows, set small fires, punctured police car tires with spikes, shined lasers in officers eyes and pelted them with rocks and frozen water bottles. Democrats have fully pivoted on the nightly Portland riots. The Associated Press reportedhundreds were charged with burglary and looting as of June 4, 2020. Theyve recently been outed by James OKeefe and Project Veritas and are most certainly under scrutiny by the feds. The legal filings and daily reports from the Department of Homeland Security do not make reference to one of the injuries described by Mr. Barr: that projectiles fired from pellet guns have penetrated marshals to the bone. On July 23, the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany referenced a similar incident. This report looked at unrest in the 68 largest municipal and county jurisdictions in the United States and Canada from May 25, 2020 to July 31, 2020. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Tyler O'Neil is an author and conservative commentator. PORTLAND, Ore. Attorney General William P. Barr forcefully defended the federal response to long-running protests in Portland on Tuesday, telling the House Judiciary Committee that the protests had become violent. Protesters in Portland marched to a government building Tuesday night, smashing windows and setting an office ablaze in what authorities called a riot. Follow him on Twitter at@Tyler2ONeil. As Ive said from the beginning, these peaceful protests are being hijacked by a very hard core of instigators, violent instigators, Mr. Barr said. Downtown Portland has seen over 50 straight nights of criminal violence perpetrated by anarchists targeting city and federal properties and those that inhabit them. Two murders, gunshot wounds, assaults, and rapes took place at her pet mobs little summer of love squat. You seem unwilling to call people engaged in criminal conduct as criminals, as opposed to lawful protesting. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minneapolis officials said Tuesday they have identified approximately 700 buildings that sustained some sort of damage during the riots in the wake of George Floyd's . They know theyre not safe from the rabble. On cue, protests to support Portland from Trumps secret police are popping up in cities across America. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/byBbGTaK1I pic.twitter.com/w2XnezbX86, For Thursday night, Gov. I just want to emphasize for the zillionth time that these protests happen in a very tiny part of Portland. So what can we do? Fact: 50+ Nights of Violence, Chaos, and Anarchy in Portland, Oregon. Crews are cleaning up the shattered glass and starting to board up windows. She handed over a police precinct to the mob. July 19, 2020 04:08 PM. This Activists Marxist Brainwashing Explains Why Antifa Has Terrorized Portland for 51 Nights, The Morning Briefing: Lori Lightfoot Goes From Historic First to Historic Loser. It wasn't antifa. This was widely scoffed at. Here is what the Portland fire department has had to sa. Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as city under siege. A tour of town shows otherwise https://t.co/bhwZ4ttGkx pic.twitter.com/vYH1D0jwNa, The Oregonian (@Oregonian) July 18, 2020. Police in Portland say that the riotous acts were prefaced by a gathering of protesters who congregated during the evening hours of June 25th at Fernhill Park, and then began marching toward the North Precinct at Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Northeast Emerson Street. This wasnt like Seattles infamous police precinct that was abandoned: These rioters were working to block off all exits from the police precinct in Portland where officers and persons in custody were still inside. None. Get down to the Justice Center for more mayhem. A few days ago federal authorities acknowledged that three police officers defending the federal courthouse may have sustained permanent damage to their eyesight because rioters shone lasers in their eyes. Gregory Hoyt is an I.T. MCCA members say they experienced 8,700 total protest events during that roughly two-month period. Kate Conger reported from Portland, Ore., and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs from New York. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/portland-protests-fact-check.html. Starting in May 2020, demonstrations over the police murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world.By July 2020, many of the protests, which had been held every day since May 28, drew more than 1,000 participants. A video posted online showed officers riding on bicycles into a group of protesters, pushing them to the ground with their bikes and their hands. A lock It's almost like Portland police have been waiting years for a chance like that while ANTIFA have run riot on them. Three investigations, including one by Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, showed that wasnt true. Trump said hell no. In October 2020, researchers writing forThe Washington Post analyzed 7,305 protest eventsand found police made arrests at 5% of them. The group and antifa are connected at the hip. Most importantly, these estimates are all being compared based on 2020 dollars. Unfortunately, violent criminal activity is occurring in Portland. The fireworks progressed in their size, with officials saying that by 1:40 a.m. on the 26th that a mortar had been launched onto the precincts roof. The slaying of the right-wing Trump supporter gunned down after he came downtown last weekend with a pro-Trump caravan of pickup trucks pushed the crisis further toward a breaking point. We have each others back. Tyler ONeil is the author ofMaking Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. U.S. Portland Oregon Policing Racial Injustice. . Mr. Barr also claimed that protesters had used Tasers, pellet guns and slingshots against the federal officers. Marketing and Sales professional based out in Sierra Vista, Arizona. thugs have burned the city hall of Portland and ravaged a . Police Chief Chuck Lovell, who is Black, said the shooting death of a 16-year-old Black boy in a park in recent days was drowned out by national media attention on the killing of the Trump supporter. I was scared before, but Ive had enough. Whose lives matter? Crowd: Black lives matter! We want Black lives to matter just as much as white lives, and we want to protect the children. We know theyre out here. A group of protesters shield themselves from chemical irritants as they demonstrate Wednesday evening, Jan. 20, 2021, outside the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in . Windows were smashed or spray-painted with slogans and profanity. He is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. But, Governor Kate Brown has COVID restrictions on large gatherings too. Obstructing roadways and carrying open containers were other reasons for the arrests, as well asfailure to disperse.. . He took a team of men with guns to protect him from the rowdy rioters. News reports indicate more than10,000 protesters were arrested, most for low-level offenses. Portland has seen 95 straight days of protests and some of the worst rioting in the country. Wheeler may be a lot of things, but heroic isnt one. Since the nationwide protestsfollowing George Floyd's murder in summer 2020, misinformation about Black Lives Matter has spread online, ranging from misleading claims about the movement's founderto false assertions about the groups politics. from the more than 100 days of consecutive chaos in Portland to the explosive unrest in Kenosha, . The Dads, who look oddly like the rioters from the night before, came with the leaf blowers to blow back at federal officers all the CS or tear gas theyve deployed, while their comrades yes, they call them comrades, lobbed IEDs. These criminal anarchists have attempted to burn down and cause extreme damage to the federal courthouse and harm to law enforcement officers. - Cub Foods on West Broadway: Extensive damage and looting. "Riot season" is scared suburbanites believing that the next time cops kill someone unarmed, protesters will come attack them in their gated community instead of doing what protestors actually do 99.99% of the time and protesting in the city, at city hall, or at police precincts. You have a lot of people who are out protesting and demonstrating, he said. Estimates vary, but news outlets reported thousands of protesterswere arrested in the months following Floyds death in May 2020. I recognize a lot of the so-called moms as the same antifa women who dressed in black as recent as a couple days ago. Some of them may be military vets. Some protesters lit several construction trailers on fire at a youth detention center, smashed windows of businesses and, according to the police, injured Seattle police officers with explosive devices. How about instead of simply yelling at rioters on bullhorns, you take action to ensure the safety of your officers and law-abiding citizens? Their lawlessness celebrated and excused," reads text in the post, published by a page called The Right View of the United States. Action! Thank you for supporting our journalism. Minneapolis was the original source of the protests and riots. Democrats, like this democratic strategist, cheer them on. Copyright 2023 PJMedia.com/Salem Media. Democrats, so far as I can find, have never denounced the violent mobs, though New York Governor Andrew Cuomo once wagged a finger at George Floyd rioters while simultaneously explaining that it wasnt really their fault because income inequality led to violence. While trying to set these fires, reports indicate that people were still inside of these buildings, including an occupied police precinct. As my Facebook Friend Kathleen Worman wrote in response to a contest of sorts Im having to come up with clever names for the riots and rioters, the Oregon woman pronounced them Demtifa. Another friend dubs the riots as Commie-Con. True that. Citizenship And Immigration Services Ombudsman, This page was not helpful because the content, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Myth vs. with the ones looting Louis Vuitton, tearing down statues of George Washington, and trying to burn down federal buildings. They claim to practice empathy, but theyre not about black people whose lives have been snuffed out by abortion, black-on-black crime, or during riots. The mayor of Portland, Ore. has asked for the public's help putting an end to the violent protests that have ravaged his city since the Black Lives Matter riots first erupted last spring. But BLM has soldiered on, recasting the group as being in support of black lives, when its only blacks killed in connection with a law-enforcement action that they care about. Outrage over the federal agents actions in Portland extended to Seattle over the weekend, when thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday against police violence and the deployment of federal agents to Portland. At all. President Trumps deployment of federal agents is fueling the unrest in Portland, where protests have continued for over 50 consecutive days. One city, unidentified but likely Portland, reported 1,100 protest events during that period. Totally. Peaceful protester? 1315 explicitly states that DHS may conduct investigations, on and off the property in question, of offenses that may have been committed against property owned or occupied by the Federal Government or persons on the property.. This is unlawful., U.S Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams gets irritated by biased media who refuse to accurately describe the criminal behavior of rioters trying to burn down the Portland federal courthouse. Their streets. The mayor forgot to mention the attempted murder of many officers and persons in custody. By 10:00 p.m. of the 25th, any semblance of a peaceful demonstration was discarded and the heinous acts began. Update (9/16/2020): The case brought against a Corvallis man previously charged for harassing and stalking federal employees assigned to assist Federal Protective Service with ongoing civil unrest in Portland has been dismissed.The man's name has been removed from this release to protect his privacy. pic.twitter.com/FipxGJUxNS. Here's a masterpost from early June, which I just discovered today, and which still seems to roughly apply (but check before donating to anything that the org in question still wants donations).https://t.co/bwWRBTbEQ4, Peter Garnett (@number_one_twit) July 26, 2020. Some reports have estimatedinsurance claims for damagesrelated to the 2020 protests totaled about $2 billion. Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings. Other federal property in other cities is being protected by both federal and local law enforcement. Groups of nurses and doctors have recently joined the protests, voicing objections to violence from the federal forces. A surge in gun violence and homicides has disproportionately impacted the Black community this summer and police say they are stretched so thin that they dont have time to adequately investigate or even respond to routine calls. The Portland Police Department has declared a riot on numerous occasions because of the nightly violence, which occurred well before the federal presence increased in early July. Antifa and their BLM brethren seek to destroy American institutions because they claim those institutions are somehow racist and oppressive. Those of us covering the Portland Professional Protester scene for years have seen most of this behavior before. He has appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Those arrested were as follows: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler commented on the destruction that took place from the evening hours of the 25th that transitioned to the 26th, saying the following: What happened here is not helping bring about any meaningful change or reform. The demonstrators descended on the Multnomah Hey hey, ho ho. Im here right now because the feds are here, and thats terrifying to me as a citizen. President Trumps deployment of federal agents is fueling the unrest in Portland, where protests have continued for over 50 consecutive days. Roughly an hour later, calls from the riotous crowd were yelling that they intended to burn down the police precinct. Similar movementshave cropped up across the world, with demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions also taking place in Belgium and the Netherlands. Local, state, and federal law enforcement working to . Property damage & looting to local stores again! Portland police declare a riot at the Multnomah County Building, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Officers made at least two arrests of protesters. The duplicitous politicians have agreed that the law doesnt apply to the Democrats pet protesters. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Once hailed as one of the most livable U.S. cities, Portland, Oregon, is grappling with an uncertain future as it reaches a stunning benchmark: 100 consecutive nights of racial injustice protests marred by vandalism, chaos and the killing of a supporter of President Donald Trump. The exact date of the 100-day milestone depends on how the protests are counted, but everyone agrees the benchmark falls over the Labor Day weekend. After Democrats issued the new talking points that federal cops were Trumps secret police, women, some of them known antifa members, took off their black balaclavas to refashion themselves into moms. Somehow these individually acting, concerned mothers all knew to get a yellow shirt, riot helmet, and hey, hey, ho, ho chant to drive away those bad federal officers. Left-wing protests in Portland have caused roughly $2.3 million in damage to federal buildings since they broke out over the summer, according to local media. Acting in conjunction with the Department of Justice, DHS law enforcement officers are expressly authorized to leave federal property to conduct investigations and arrest individuals who have damaged federal property or attacked federal agents. Thats because the political class of like-minded public servants agree with them and let them do it. misleading claims about the movement's founder, false assertions about the groups politics, Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks, Posts mislead about crowd size, peacefulness at Canada Freedom Convoy protest, Fact check: Missing context in claim about Black Lives Matter co-founder's property purchases, Fact check: Black Lives Matter tweeted in support of Palestinians, not Hamas. Of course, to get dads to show up with leaf blowers, which youll come to learn are dead-useful at a riot, you must put out a casting call and bring your gas masks and bring your leaf blower. 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