March to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s residence Monday declared riot as burning debris thrown into building: Key takeaways

Oregon Live ^ | 9/01/20 | Jamie Hale, Beth Nakamura

[Libloather]

About 200 people on Monday night marched to the Pearl District condominium tower where Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler lives to demand his resignation.

The demonstration quickly turned destructive as some in the crowd lit a fire in the street, then placed a picnic table from a nearby business above the fire to feed the blaze. People shattered windows and broke into a ground-floor dental office took items including a chair, also added to the fire, and office supplies.

Shortly after 11 p.m., a bundle of newspapers was set ablaze and thrown into a ground-floor storefront in the residential building.

Around the same time, police arrived and warned over a loudspeaker that the gathering had been declared an unlawful assembly, then a riot. Officers ordered people to leave to the west.

The 16-story building contains 114 residences - but the fire didn’t appear to spread and was quickly extinguished. Police used crowd-control munitions and released smoke into the air as they pushed the crowd west.

[Libloather]

Water cannons are needed more than ever.

[Ronin]

I wonder if Wheeler is starting to get a clue about how useless it is to try and appease a mob. Ya think?

[jonascord]

Nope. No water cannons. The cops should do what they have been doing, so well, for four years. Stand aside, go get their dry cleaning, pick up the milk and eggs from Fred Meyer, go out to Costco in Beaverton and get some TP.

Sometimes the World needs to burn, as an object lesson for the truly Stupid.

[rrrod]

Burn Portland down.

[Jaysin]

water cannons?? how about ww2 style flame throwers?

[Palio di Siena]

Pretty quick to declare a riot when Wheelers residence threatened.

[Salvey]

My guess is that one more speech, like Sunday’s, by this fool will calm things down.
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[FatherofFive]

Sometimes the World needs to burn, as an object lesson for the truly Stupid.

Let's keep the fire restricted to the Rat world. My part is doing just fine, thank you.

The problem is they never learn. Most will relocate and still vote for Rats in their new abode.

[Russ]

No, Wheeler will never “get a clue”. He will just double down on blaming Trump for the mob.

[HarleyD]

So the rioters deliberately try to set a condominium tower a blazed with, presumably people in their homes inside the tower, and all they can do is report that the fire didn't spread very quickly.

[T.B. Yoits]

Any "protestor" who has not departed the area after the first attempt to burn the building, regardless if "it wasn't them", is an accessory to attempted murder and needs to be arrested immediately.

During the arrests, any resistance needs to be met with crushing force as again, it's attempted murder.

[castlebrew]

“Any “protestor” who has not departed the area after the first attempt to burn the building, regardless if “it wasn’t them”, is an accessory to attempted murder and needs to be arrested immediately.

During the arrests, any resistance needs to be met with crushing force as again, it’s attempted murder.”

If they’re not peaceably assembling, they’re an accessory. Don’t give them a “first attempt” to burn anything.

[goodnesswins]

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[FreedomPoster]

It is worth noting that Robespierre created the Parisian mob, and was guillotined by it.

Red Ted is probably ignorant of this history.