Posted on 05/02/2021 5:34:27 PM PDT by Libloather
Portland descended into chaos again late Saturday and into Sunday even after the mayor had pledged earlier in the week to crack down on 'anarchist mobs' and 'unmask' them.
The mayor himself had received an apparent death threat in a voice-disguised, anonymous Twitter video Wednesday, just days after he promised to 'take our city back' from violent rioters and 'hurt them a little bit.'
Two groups of radical protesters, who have throughout the past year represented Antifa and other far-left causes, were armed with weapons, body armor, shields and flares. The riots came as violent skirmishes occurred worldwide during so-called 'May Day' protests in favor of worker's rights - but that descended into anarchist free-for-alls.
Police declared a riot and ordered the 'protesters' to disband.
Late Saturday, two large groups - one about 30 to 50 people and another about 80 to 100 people - started their battle against law enforcement near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in south Portland while the other blazed a path of destruction from Shemanski Park to a federal courthouse, Portland police said.
They shattered windows and graffitied buildings of several businesses and government facilities, according to Portland police, who arrested five people including one man who's accused of pulling a butterfly knife out on a cop.
Outside the ICE facility, federal officers fired pepper ball rounds at the group, local TV station KATU reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Other than maybe window installers, have the antifa fascists created any jobs?
Fake news. “death threat in a voice-disguised, anonymous Twitter video” we all know twitter removes them immediately. /s
We are making progress!! The Daily Mail wrote ‘protesters’. The word “protesters” is in quotation marks. Finally somebody is beginning to wake up that these violent anarcho/communists are not protestors...unless you count efforts to demolish Western Civilization as protest.
3 Think the rioting looters did not take:
1. Work boots
2. Work gloves
3. Father’s Day cards.
The New York Times Editorial, May 2, 1861 below is worth reading as it discusses how a rapid police action put down a mob uprising in Baltimore. History is repeating.
A Government holding intercourse, and maintaining amicable relations with those seeking to destroy it, courts its own destruction.
How to Hold Virginia.
Not an instant should be lost in repeating upon the soil of Virginia the experiment to successfully tried upon Maryland -- the presence of an armed force sufficient to put down the mob, now as rampant in the former State as it was a few days ego in the latter. Reason is returning to Maryland, simply by a demonstration of force, without really menacing her metropolis or without firing a gun. The recent election there showed how contemptible, in point of numbers, was the mob that seized upon Baltimore -- not one quarter of its male population. Yet this miserable minority would have held the city indefinitely had not the strong arm of Government been seen coming to the aid of the law and order loving citizens. In a week more reason will assume her sway in Maryland. Her public highways will he opened and safe for the unarmed traveler. Commerce and trade will resume their wonted operations. The mechanic and farmer will return to their avocations, while to all the experience of the past ten days will be a horrible dream never again to be repeated.
Secession in every State is just what it was in Maryland -- a mob. This is the emphatic statement of the Union members of the Convention at Richmond. The army stationed at Washington should immediately advance South to act as a local police. The mob at Richmond would prove to be as cowardly and contemptible as at Baltimore. We are confident that a body of troops sufficient to crush opposition, would meet with no effective resistance, and perhaps none whatever. Eastern Virginia has only 500,000 whites. A considerable portion of these are loyal. A mob, existing in open violation of the laws, is always cowardly. A dozen policemen are enough to confront and subdue one composed of thousands, because they know the majesty of the law is against them, and must subdue them at last.
In the case of Virginia, another reason for prompt action on the part of Government is the gallant stand taken by the Western portion of the State, which is loyal to the core, and only wants a proper recognition of their loyalty to take care not only of itself, but assist in a demonstration against the Eastern, which is the seditious portion of it. The majority of the people of Virginia today are not disloyal. They may be overborne for the moment, but would earnestly hail and sustain an advance of federal troops. We have evidence of this too direct and palpable to be doubted.
The saving of Virginia depends solely open prompt action at Washington. There is not the slightest doubt of this. But there are other imperative reasons for a decisive movement. In Virginia we break the back of secession in every Southern State. This can be done in the next sixty days. Let these elapse without doing anything and no effectual movement can be made by land till October or November. By that time secession will have ten-fold its present strength. The great want of the enemy is further time for preparation, and to consolidate a mob into something like order. Our lethargy has made it what it is. We must not encourage its further progress, but deal with it henceforth as treason. Every man taken in open arms against the Government should be hung. The prompt punishment of a few traitors would save the lives of thousands of innocent men. A Government that has no power, or that will not put forth any, is not a Government. A Government holding intercourse, and maintaining amicable relations with those seeking to destroy it, courts its own destruction. We trust our own will instantly wake up to a sense of the emergency, and know for the future but one duty -- the prompt and energetic enforcement of the laws irrespective of persons or consequences.
It won’t stop until some agency goes Kent State on them.
I think I see the problem.
He’s all words, because he’s in league with them. He can’t really take action, because they would expose him.
Any action would have to come from the outside the mayor’s office.
Democrats don’t want criminals exposed...
Did he say ‘pretty please’?
Do any of them actually work?
It wouldn’t be a Portland protest with out “mostly peaceful” rioters smashing up a Starbucks.
I am tending to think it is time for live rounds.
It’s time to call up Ma Deuce.
Nanzi Pelosi did that to protesters on Jan 6th
A 5.56 SAW would do as good a job as a m duce and cause less collateral property damage.
Will the arrested ones still get their college scholarships?
Yes and class credit.
Got this in an email recently. I could not believe how many looters there were.
The “Squad” has stated that oppressed people who are in need should be able throw a brick through a window and take what they need. We must be compassionate!
Oppressed Sunday Shoppers
https://zvraceny.cz/video/video-mp4/2020-24/86091.mp4
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