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
By the looks of it that guy is still getting beat up by middle schoolers for his lunch money.
““The violence must stop.”
I like the way he uses a pleading, powerless passive voice, as if just pleading will cause some fairy to wave a magic wand and make it stop. What a eunuch!”
A better statement would be, “I have authorized my police force to use deadly force were it is legal.”
This guy is such a pussy.
You think he is incompetent? He is working with the rioters
Whoa there Ted! lol.
He needs to check his white privilege and take what’s coming to him. In fact he should beg for more, and give up his apartment and money as reparation.
How many times I gotta tell ya, ya can’t all Ted Wheeler a fruit or a fag or a queer? Whether he is a fruit, a fag, or a queer is irrelevant. Those words have been cancelled. But I do not think fairy has been cancelled yet.
How many times I gotta tell ya, ya can’t all Ted Wheeler a fruit or a fag or a queer? Whether he is a fruit, a fag, or a queer is irrelevant. Those words have been cancelled. But I do not think fairy has been cancelled yet.
How many times I gotta tell ya, ya can’t all Ted Wheeler a fruit or a fag or a queer? Whether he is a fruit, a fag, or a queer is irrelevant. Those words have been cancelled. But I do not think fairy has been cancelled yet.
Hard to read that without thinking of Michael savage. Liberalism is a mental disorder
I’m guessing 3, 3 times.
The mayor has no guiding core principles. He adjusts course as things happen, and in the end manages to have no good effect.
What a whiney, miserable failure.
Only interested in “police reform’.
Yeah, and then this guy blames Trump for his city going to hell for the past several decades. Not bad enough looking like a 60 year old spoiled, angry adolescent pointing fingers at everyone, when he’s guilty as hell. It’s his baby. Leftist rarely admit to anything even when facing significant evidence. This guy publicly supported and aided and abetted them.
I hope the rioters are banging on the windows in your building every night. That might make them seem real to you.
Your decisions have cost the citizens of portland hundreds of millions of dollars.
You need to be held accountable for every dime of it.
They have been screaming “F*%k Ted Wheeler” and demanded he resign for months and he thinks another letter will help.
the damage has been done. Your words are shallow and meaningless.
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