City to Pay $300,000 in Protest Settlement (Portland, Ore.)

KATU 2 ^ | 11/30/2004 | Associated Press

[sarah_f]

Their lawyers reviewed more than 100 hours of videotape taken by independent observers and the Police Bureau.

In case anyone DOESN'T know... those "independent observers" are communist ACLU lawyers and communist ACLU operatives. Look for the late forty to late fifty white males with grey hair and beard and video recorders. They're there every time.

[clooney4824]

$12,500 each is way too much for the scum. As evidenced in posts by people who live in cesspool Portland-they were violent and disobeying the law. This payout is more than disgusting. And for the article to say the "city" is paying the idiots??? NO-taxpayers are paying!!! Can't wait to move from this socialist,commie city.

[sarah_f]

Remember Bush I calling the People's Republic of Portlandistan "little Beirut" after rioting freaks rioted against him?

[sarah_f]

With that image alone, she can get a full scholarship to the Evergreen State College, "Rachel Corrie University."

Contact Steve Niva and the local ISM terrorists and she can be in "palestine" in six weeks.

Warm up the 'dozers!

[asgardshill]

I have no idea what you people are whining about in this case. Its only taxpayer money that will be spent in paying off these settlements. The taxpayers are all rich Republicans anyway - they'll never miss it.

(sarcasm OFF)

[Tfran]

The girl in the picture probably considered her injury a "badge of honor."

[maica]

Just imagine what the city is paying in lawyer, etc fees. I bet the city is picking up the tab for the plaintiffs' lawyers and I bet the total is 10x the $300,000 quoted here.

[Andy from Beaverton]

How many DU people here at FR would post a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's, 'The Gulag Archipelago' on their FR home page???

[Auntie Dem]

I'm sure they do. Lots of states have lots of unconstitutional laws.

But laws restricting protests to certain "zones" have been found to be constitutional. Portland should have designated protest zones and confined the freaks there. If they tried to protest anywhere else they could bust their chops--legally. Leftists think laws only apply to their opponents, not to them. They deserve to pay for their arrogant criminality with a couple of black eyes, swollen lips and a good concussion.

[SirLurkedalot]

I remember her. She got that trying to stop supplies going to our troops from the shipping yard of the Oakland Port, IIRC. She had to chew those soyburgers on the other side for a while I'd imagine. Boo Hoo little hippy scum.

[Tfran]

I remember her. She got that trying to stop supplies going to our troops from the shipping yard of the Oakland Port, IIRC.

Actions have consequences...

[SirLurkedalot]

"How many lumps do you want?"-Bugs Bunny. As I posted on several threads prior to the DNC and RNC conventions regarding the little 'direct action' maggots: "Hats and Bats on Horseback...Let triage sort 'em out" Someone even posted the dopey 'post-clubbbing' lion the from the orignal cartoon on my behalf. (Thanks, whoever you are!)If they're so peaceful and loving why do they end up breaking sh** and going to jail?

[Hacksaw]

Rights don't require permits. Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

That's warm and fuzzy and very libertarian of you, but it seems that this assembly was not peaceful. I am not inclined to think it was simply because their lawyer says so.

[KoneZone]

Portland? We call it Moscow on the Willamette "River for those of you who live in a Different locale". The loud and the Boisterous have a strong foothold here. They go out and disrupt traffic close down sections of town and basically are a bunch of A-Holes. It's not surprising that they got a payoff, this will only encourage them. I wounder how long it will be until this Jack-Ass Jughead Judge is added to the "Fifth __________Circus Court of Repeals"? Insert your favorite beverage in the space provided. Vodka,Gin where ya been? I sure hope this doesn't stand. 20 miles from the scene of the crime and wish I could move further.

[Carling]

How many DU people here at FR would post a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's, 'The Gulag Archipelago' on their FR home page???

At least one, as I see it. ;)

[Altamira]

Nice "Go back to DU" comment. Apparently that IS the best you can come up with.

[Altamira]

Nobody would, but don't expect her to think that much, Andy; she's more comfortable with namecalling.

Now that I think of it, they do that over at DU...maybe she's a troll...

[Salvation]

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[dolander2002]

Clearly this poster known as "freeee" does not know ass from apple butter. The protest was NOT peaceful. Some DUmmies with babies were holding their kids up in front of them, thinking that the police would not use pepper spray on the crowd. There are video tapes showing these people jumping up and down on police cars, breaking windows, and trying to overturn a car with cops inside. I could go on and on, but since I actually DO LIVE in Portland, pay taxes here, and have a respect for those who do peacefully protest (yes, they get a permit to gather), I will just say that as much of an injustice it is to have to fork over money to such jackasses, it costs the self-insured City of Portland less to make these settlements.

I am, however, completely opposed to giving money to these dirtbags.

BTW, these same creeps were also trying to sue police officers individually. That did not fly.

I'm thinking of moving out of this state.

[Coffee_drinker]

I would move also but all my family is here and my career is here. Oregon really has a split personality when it comes to politics. Unfortunately the center of liberalism is in Portland and with their population they can pretty much decide on the course of state on critical matters. I was hoping that this mult. county. tax that they voted themselves would wake up a few people when they actually had to write the checks but evidently not since the vote to recall that tax was defeated.