Posted on 08/27/2020 3:34:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler responded almost nonchalantly to NPR when asked about the nightly violent riots in his city that have injured countless police officers, destroyed property, and shuttered businesses.
“[The protest] will ultimately burn itself out,” Wheeler told the local public radio station last week
.The Free Beacon reported on Wheeler’s stance, which did not condemn the violence:
Wheeler told OPR [Oregon Public Radio] reporter Rebecca Ellis last week that he expects daily protests in the city—which began in May following the death of George Floyd—to last for some time. He said he expects nightly violence that followed the protests “will ultimately burn itself out.”
The mayor, who is in charge of Portland’s police force, told OPR the department will adjust to the situation on its own.
“They’ve tried everything from not showing up to preemptively dispersing crowds, and some of those strategies, in my opinion, have worked well,” Wheeler said. “Others have not worked well.”
“Wheeler previously proposed to top aides a ‘high-risk’ policing approach in which police would be ordered to stand down and not respond to rioters,” the Beacon reported. “He never put those measures into effect, leaving local police without clear directives in dealing with crowds, whether they are rioting, looting businesses, or setting fire to government buildings.”
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[“[The protest] will ultimately burn itself out,” Wheeler told the local public radio station last week]
True. Once that part of the city is burned-out like parts of Detroit, there will be nothing left to burn.
Until the Democrats give them a ride to the suburbs.
2020 Democrats: Let it burn!
Let’s check w/the mayor after the mob burns down his condo building. He may be singing a different tune.
If you try and burn down my property you will be greeted with deadly force.
Must not be any real men left up there or this mayor would already be at room temperature.
Even their devotion to their radical agenda can’t be enough for every single mayor and governor to watch their fiefdoms burned. They must be getting bribes or threats, it’s too uniform across the board.
Out of the Park Baseball. The best sports simulation you can buy. Play yorown league
Let the commie loving leagues die. The sports will return in another form.
Thanks for posting this. This mayor is nuts.
Why even have mayor or city government.
Why to collect the taxes and pay themselves their fat govt salaries.
The mayor is correct. Once everything flammable has been consumed, the fire will go out.
I used to care deeply, but the politics of it has ruined it for me. I appreciate your pain.
It’s possible that I could care less.
But highly unlikely.
I don’t know anyone at all who gives a damn-people around here tuned major sports out when the taking a knee, etc started-lot of vets and cops here in BFE...
But their tax base is being burned down and are moving out.
You are wrong. Just look at the three threads just posted.
So people are interested
They move into residential areas and at some point there will be a “get off my lawn” moment that has the potential to go full Kyle.
I didn’t say people elsewhere were not interested-I pointed out that people out here don’t care-not many were rabid fans to begin with-there are plenty of bars/taverns around here, but no sports bars or any of that-this isnt a burb or a condo complex-it is the middle of nowhere...
No different than when mayors used to stand idle while Democrat Klansmen did their foul deeds in their communities as well.
Crooked Democrat mayors approve of the activities.
>>“””which began in May following the death of George Floyd””
Wrong. This sh!t show has been going on in Portland for YEARS.
Jump to 7:35 in this posting from January 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7LaBVnLDi4
There’s an opportunity here for a wealthy investor to start a no politics league.
I really don’t know why everyone is excited, as the Portland mayor is very correct, the violence will burn itself out. There are plenty of historical references to prove just that. For example:
The Bolshevik Revolution eventually burned itself out into a mostly peaceful USSR.
Castro’s revolution eventually burned itself out creating a mostly happy Cuban population.
Chairman Mao’s little band of funsters eventually let things burn out to create our current threat, the Peoples Republic.
So yes, let’s just enjoy the Summer of Love and let the little commies keep it up. I mean, let’s face it, it’s Trump’s fault. /s/
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