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
somebody should tell him that the rioters are anarchists
he thinks he’s writing to rational people.
These are not rational people. These are people like the BLM kid in Kenosha who, when asked why one business was burned but not the 7-11 for instance, and he replied, because they don’t give us stuff free, and if they don’t give us stuff, we burn them.
Resign or be removed.
The violence is not “senseless”. There is a purpose and goal to it.
This SOB is a traitor to America and his own city. Wonder if he is related to the old Communist Party USA family led by Tim Wheeler, originally from Baltimore CPUSA and the Daily World newspaper.
“ read my 19 point plan”
What a soy boy.
Wow...the closed minded incompetence just rolls outta his mouth and pen. He is a hapless “leader”. Got elected by promising unicorns and magic dust. Should never be in any position of authority. The sjw and snowflake world is dead, dude.
which is weird cause he is also the Chief of Police....
To the mayor of portland, you are a liar and a POS to try and blame any of this on Trump.
Last summer, last July, I came off the hill with the VA hospital on it into down town and drove through a crowd of rioters who were determined to stop me and the several vehicles following me.
That was before the Floyd death and before the virus and they were there then breaking the law as violently as they believed they could get away with at that time.
I had two .45’s and a badge laying on the seat next to me. If I had stopped someone would have died that night and it would not have been me. All I was doing was visiting family and I was not going to stop for their ignorance and stupidity.
You allowed this to happen, you and only you are responsible for it and you do not have the integrity or the balls to own it and/or admit it.
I called the PD that night and had a long talk with them and they told me bluntly that you would not let them clean up the area as they and the existing laws, said they should.
You would love to get people to believe that this was all about trump, Floyd’s death, BLM, and the virus but that is a huge lie you are telling. This crap was going on last July and you knew all about it then and would not let your Law enforcement officers do their jobs and establish peace and order.
The mayor of Portland is a LIAR, the mayor of Portland is a worthless POS who has allowed many of his cities business owners to lose everything they had just so he could do his part in trying and destroy President Trump’s reelection aspirations.
This is all about the quest for power and domination of
our nation by the left.
Again, mr portland mayor, you are a POS liar and should be put out of office right now.
But while you are still there stop your damn lies.
If you condemn it, why did you let it go on so long?
Because it hadn’t been brought to your doorstep yet.
It was always someone else’s neighborhood and livelihood going up in the flames of anarchy. All well and good for someone else to take one for The Cause.
You’re a weak little man who let marauding mobs run wild because you were afraid to oppose them — until you felt even more afraid when they came for you personally.
That damn violence! We need to ask that violence to stop! Violence, if you don't stop, we are going to be really angry with you! What do think of that, huh, violence? You'll be sorry! So stop, OK?
He does pretty well standing when he does NOT have a spine.
Bet he smells like tuna.
Oh, my word. This sounds like those mothers whose toddlers are trashing the grocery aisle, and they’re saying, “Schuyler Madison Hartetranft, please stop that. Didn’t we talk about this last time? Please, Schuyler!”—instead of fanning his butt, both in the store and when sperm donor gets home.
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