Portland police chief urges elected officials to ‘hold people accountable’ for ‘nightly violence’

Fox News ^ | 9/01/20 | Dom Calicchio

[Libloather]

The police chief of Portland, Ore., has called on elected officials to “draw a line in the sand” against the “nightly violence” that has plagued the city over the last three months.

Chief Chuck Lovell’s statement, posted Tuesday on the city’s official website, followed a night in which protesters set fires and smashed windows at the condominium building where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives.

“Last night a residential apartment building was broken into and a fire was lit inside the building,” Lovell wrote, adding that such actions have become part of a routine of destruction in recent weeks.

“Over the past several weeks, we have seen arson at occupied police precincts as well as at the PPA [Portland Police Association] office which is tucked into a residential neighborhood,” Lovell continued. “Last night marked yet another escalation of the senseless violence. The families that live inside have done absolutely nothing to provoke a threat to their lives.”

[Libloather]

Water cannons would help.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I think he means that the elected officials need to be held accountable.

[Libloather]

The mayor also told residents of the building where he lives that he planned to move elsewhere soon following Monday’s violence, OregonLive.com reported.

Looks like the maya is bugging out.

[pepsionice]

You’d have to import the water cannons in from China.

I would agree...a dozen water cannons in Portland, would settle the mess in a matter of 72 hours.

[DesertRhino]

Anyone lighting a fire in an apartment building should be shot dead on the spot

[Maudeen]

If the mayor had been held accountable to begin with, we wouldn’t see this evil violence that has not only meant tragedy but also Federal $$$$$$$ from the taxpayer’s pockets. Senseless

[TigerClaws]

https://katu.com/news/local/portland-area-agencies-decline-to-send-officers-deputies-to-help-with-protests

Those arrested aren’t prosecuted.

[chopperk]

Accountability refers to the radicals who supplied the money for transport and food to support the burners, looters and murderers.....

[abbastanza]

Which people, Chief?

[SMARTY]

Wants the POLICE to step up their efforts? NOW?

[Flick Lives]

Anyone lighting a fire in an apartment building should be shot dead on the spot

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Setting fire to a building use to be called arson. Now the MSM calls it “mostly peaceful protest”.

[Pontiac]

These politicians that are using these riots to prevent a Trump re-election are fools.

They think that they cam put the genie back in the bottle when the election is over.

Good luck with that trick!

These idealistic nut jobs will accept nothing less than everything they want. They have tasted blood and will not easily give up the meat.

[frog in a pot]

Anyone lighting a fire in an apartment building should be shot dead on the spot.

The good news: so long as the structure was occupied the shooter would have a statutory defense to any homicide charge in many/most (?) jurisdictions.

[Twotone]

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