I think I see the problem.
Posted on 07/25/2018 8:56:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
Video at link.
Portland police Wednesday morning cleared the last remaining protesters from an encampment at the Southwest Portland offices of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
About a dozen protesters had remained at the headquarters in South Waterfront after the camp five weeks ago was created by demonstrators saying they were acting against the immigration policies of the Trump administration.
Police released a statement about 4:30 a.m. saying Portland officers were assisting in cleaning up the Occupy ICE Camp near Southwest Macadam Avenue and Bancroft Street.
The city had warned remaining campers Monday night that they needed to leave or face arrest after Tuesday.
Most occupiers, which at the camp's height numbered in the hundreds, had left over the past few weeks.
Police Wednesday morning taped off the area around the ICE headquarters and closed the intersection. About a dozen protesters initially remained, standing at the intersection of Lowell Street and Moody Avenue. By 6:30 a.m., only about five were still at the scene.
Police said protesters were subject to citation or arrest for charges including trespassing, illegal camping on public property and illegal structures on public property. The police statement said its explosives unit and Portland Fire & Rescue personnel were present as precautions.
Shortly after 6 a.m., Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw held a news conference at the site.
She said police have received 76 calls during the encampment and have responded to 41 of them. She also said the roads near the ICE headquarters were needed for access to medical facilities in the area.
Outlaw also said the camp posed fire and biomedical hazards.
"We knew we had to get ahead of it before it spiraled out of control," she said.
Outlaw said after bringing those reasons to Mayor Ted Wheeler, he then "fully supported" clearing the camp of occupiers.
The occupation began five weeks ago, when protesters set up a makeshift camp at the building and have been there around the clock since. They said their intention is to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating children and parents who are detained after border crossings and seek the abolishment of ICE.
The field office closed for days because protesters blocked its entrances. Several demonstrators were detained and charged with misdemeanors when federal police moved to reopen the building. Protesters carried on, with tensions between their ranks and federal officers flaring up on occasion.
Demonstrations came to a head last week, when members of the right-wing Patriot Prayer group came to the campsite and argued with protesters . Three demonstrators were arrested at the time for crossing police lines and preventing access to the building.
A faction of protesters left voluntarily Monday, Eudaly said. Wheeler encouraged others to follow suit.
Wheeler said he supports protesters' cause , but believes the camp-out demonstration is no longer "sustainable."
"To all demonstrators: I urge you to keep up this effort," Wheeler said. He added that he believes it is time to for protesters to "move on" and focus on changing immigration policy, rather than camping at the ICE field office.
Contract workers began cleaning the campsite about 8 a.m. They planned to collect items of "obvious utility and value" left behind. The bureau will store the items, and people can claim any belongings until Sept. 1, 2018 by contacting Pacific Patrol Services at 503-595-3440.
The action shut down numerous streets as the morning commute began, including:
Tasers, tear gas, and mahogany shampoo would do the trick.
Who has 5 weeks of spare time to do this?
DID ANYONE ASK ANY OF THEM IF THEY HAVE JOBS???
IMO < it’s likely they are being paid by a Soros connected entity.
How does that guy get away with this?
Where’s the FBI?
Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw — We knew we had to get ahead of it before it spiraled out of control.”
FIVE WEEKS! And now she wants to “get ahead of it”?
Only a Police Chief named “Outlaw” would say something so stupid.
This is typical Portland politics, more screwed up than Hogans goat.
I think I see the problem.
She’s running a close second to Maxine Waters.
These people are absolutely communist agitators. Let them protest all they want 2 miles away. The nation loves and Honors our brave ICE agents and the wonderful God’s work that they do i9n removing illegal alien criminals by the thousand . All their children should be reunited and removed with them .
“Outlaw also said the camp posed fire and biomedical hazards.”
I can imagine the place stunk of people peeing or defecating in the immediate area or having not bathed or showered in that amount of time.
Five weeks and all ICE did was sit on their hands. Pathetic. It’s no wonder this country is over run with illegals and child trafficking.
Well, San Francisco is OK with it. ;-)
Yes, the problem has become self-evident after viewing that photograph. That is one ugly beast. Seems to be of the Baltimore-cut.
If they didn’t do it with those big front-loader garbage trucks they had in Soylent Green, don’t tell me. Let me live in my fantasy world.
Where’s the IRS?
If they are being paid and “directed” by Soros entity, they are employees and should be issuing (and receiving) W-2s next year. And having withholding
Just as his fake fronts have been doing in past years. Have these documents been filed?
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See this link for a report on the camp. Totalitarians in charge with no plumbing (”The smell is memorable”). http://ace.mu.nu/archives/376261.php
I'm usually the Euphemism Police, but I give sincere thanks here for the obfuscation. You know they ain't talking about wayward biopsy samples from cancer screenings.
Well, it would seem so, since I believe it was him funding a hiring effort starting last year, if not before.
What the front entity was, I don’t know, but we were talking about the adds on the internet.
Amen, you know it had to be really bad for this jerk of a mayor to finally order them out.
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