Posted on 09/01/2020 8:13:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community.
This is what we’re all supposed to be fighting for. But last night saw more senseless violence in Portland. Another minority-owned, local business was destroyed by a violent group of individuals. A police officer was filmed repeatedly striking an individual at a protest. Even the building where I live, along with dozens of other families, was violently attacked.
These acts range from stupid, to dangerous, to criminal. The violence must stop. None of this should sit well with any thinking Portlander.
Arson and terrorizing families with children does nothing except steal, and distract from, the important message of the racial justice movement. Organizations in the community who encouraged or condoned these actions are complicit. Elected leaders - or those seeking office - who remain silent in the midst of these acts of violence and criminal destruction are equally complicit. The community must rise up and say "enough is enough" and hold all of us accountable. We cannot truly move on together and make the positive changes we want to see until this violence is stopped. All violence.
We cannot allow our anger to destroy what we are trying to support.
I was elected by you to do this job, so I’m going to do it. I stand by our positive movement for police reform and I stand by the hundreds of thousands of Portlanders who want to peacefully protest and ask for more reform.
I call on my colleagues and all Portlanders to join me in denouncing violence and to actively oppose it by finding positive ways to let your voices be heard and to bring about the changes you want to see.
We join the many activists who call for the continued peaceful protests. I will work with you to use every tool to move toward the systemic changes needed at every level of government. Either you are with centering the heavy work of dismantling institutional racism or you are not. These acts of violence distract us. And they must stop.
As Mayor, I will always fight for your Constitutional rights, no matter your politics. I will always fight for your ability to disagree with my actions, police actions, and the actions of your neighbors. What I will not stand for is endangering the lives of your fellow Portlanders. That is unacceptable to me and it is unacceptable to our community.
If you are participating in violence, I want to be clear: I denounce your actions. State and local law enforcement is working together to hold you accountable. Your actions demonstrate a level of hate and destruction that we WILL NOT condone or tolerate.
But this isn’t just about what you should not do. This must also be about what we need you to do. Vote. Read my 19 Point Plan on Police Reform and provide feedback to my office. Contact your elected officials at every level of government. Support the work of the POC Caucus in the Oregon Legislature. There are many opportunities to get to work, both through government and through the community organizations that are doing incredible work on behalf of Portlanders and pushing us all to do better. Together.
https://www.portland.gov/wheeler/racial-justice
I think Trump hitting him upside the head with two by fours is having a salutary effect.
Keep pounding that jackass, president Trump!
““The violence must stop.””
Call POTUS, VSG Trump first thing tomorrow morning.
Problem solved.
These people are complete idiots.
Officers are going to HAVE TO PUNCH THE CRAP OUT OF SOME to get the message to the rest.
FWIW - the guy pulled the officers helmet off prior to being hit from what I saw.
P.S. - great takedown. That is the best video I have seen out of Portland yet because this is what it will take to end the chaos. Just let the cops do their job and they will do it!
How very ironic.
He caused this with his complicit behavior and now thinks he can preach from some imaginary high road.
I hope his Aunt Teefa friends disembowel him.
Yeah, he’s high all right.
Rather strongly worded letter.
Probably going to be painful...
Oregon has forgotten how to Finnicum someone?
What a Nancy boy this guy is. “I denounce this violence “
Yeah, that will scare them into stopping..
It looks like the 'peaceful protesting' got too close for comfort.
They got what they voted for. . . .a loser. I feel so sorry for the patriotic conservative Christians who happen to live there. Asking the Lord for their safety, recovery, and blessings.
“Once again, he singles out the police.”
Gee Ted, who did you call last night when the crazed anarchists you have been aiding and abetting for months decided to attack your residence?
I think that would have been a great time to enact some “reforms” and try some woke experiments with community focused interventions.
*** If you are participating in violence, I want to be clear: I denounce your actions ***
Reminds me of Hans Blix, and a “strongly worded letter”.
Across America, a concerted effort to elect these fecal specimens to various offices has paid off for the left in spades.
In other words, he’s seen the same polls Biden has.
Well I guess the riot didn’t “burn itself out” after all. After Trump’s cramming this entire catastrophe down the democrats’ throats today, I’m not surprised. He will probably be on the phone to the president soon.
What planet have you been on for the last 100 nights. Can you say BLM buckwheat?
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He’s a cry baby and will never be a leader.
Violence against certain races is okay to him, and that Officer responded when his protective helmet was violently knocked off his head, exposing him to danger.
The Dem Mayors believed the organized Violence was their secret weapon.
They miscalculated.
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Trump should place digital signs warming motorists to avoid certain streets.
Wheeler would flip
If the idiot had let the police do their job in the first instance, it would have never gotten to this point.
There must be legal recourse to recall this insufferable dweeb from public office and cement his demise. Go for it, people of Portland.
"Even the building where I live, along with dozens of other families, was violently attacked."
Yep, Ted thought he was granted a pass from the rioters. Why else would he say "Even the building where I live.." as if that made the rioting different now. He never said that about anybody else's building, or the buildings belonging to the United States citizens, or the police union.
Suddenly when it is his house getting attacked and damaged then the rioting has to stop. Ted Wheeler must be uniquely privileged.
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