Posted on 04/25/2021 4:06:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Friday asked residents to help "unmask" the people behind violence at protests in recent weeks, which grew in fervor after police fatally shot a white man at Lents Park.
What he's saying: “They want to burn, they want to bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” Wheeler said in a Friday video statement, referring to violent protestors. "Our community needs to resume their lives. People need to go back to work. Employers need to be able to reopen."
"I support our police using all legal strategies, including kettling, when the appropriate circumstances and resources are available to do so without putting officers at risk of physical harm."
"Our job is to unmask them, arrest them, and prosecute them," he said. "I want to personally thank neighbors, family, friends, and others who have come forward with vital evidence. People know who these criminals are. They know what they're up to."
Wheeler faced backlash for urging residents to call the police if they see people who are "all dressed in all black" arriving at protests in cars. His office in a follow-up statement said he was referring to "those who engage in criminal actions."
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As if anything will happen to them.
Did the mayor just wake up from a long nap?
“We promise we won’t create a list of the right-wing extremists, uh, I mean good samaritans, who help us in this way, to persecute them later.”
or you could put a $100 Dead or Alive bounty on them
Yes, Rip Van Wheeler just woke up. The chump must have missed all the riots that already happened.
Mayor dumbass just went from woke to awake.
Now you want to do something...
No, your job was to do that last year. Now, apparently, your job is to calm down Antifa because it is making Biden look bad. To bad. Build a wall around it to quarantine the infection and then let Portland burn.
His house is on the line.
F’ him. I love all of his “we” crap. He and Portland and BLM all deserve each other.
A Democrat politician wants the good citizens to step up and send the bad guys to jail. For the past year the Democrat Politician has been unwilling to do as he himself has said. Somehow I would be skeptical of the entire process.
Can we just tag ‘em with a .22 and see who shows up at the ER?
The riots will end when there’s nothing left to loot or burn.
Most of them are public school teachers.
I hope Aunteefa lynches ol Ted
Correct, notice there have been no riots in Baltimore and Detroit in the last year.
No, the riots will end when the communists have completely taken over the entire country. Then the “normalization” starts and every single ANTIFA and BLM foot soldier will be executed because they are no longer useful.
Long nap? Probably went into rehab, is now sober, and wonders how it all happened. Sorry, too late.
The internal polling numbers must be very bad, so, he’s got to give some lip service here. Nothing to take seriously.
Wheeler, you asked for it; you got it. Now, rejoice in the “social justice” that came about as a result. And since you object to BLM and Antifa, you are a racist and a fascist, by the leftist standards that you espouse.
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