Posted on 08/02/2020 7:09:12 AM PDT by jazusamo
More than 150 rounds were fired and one woman was shot in Portland on Friday night while protesters on Saturday – some of whom appeared to impersonate press – threw glass bottles and shined lasers at city police officers sent to quell the nighttime unrest witnessed for more than two months straight.
Saturday marked the third night of federal and state law enforcement cooperation in Portland, as the Department of Homeland Security continues to weigh plans to withdraw from the liberal Oregon city. It was the 64th straight day of violent demonstrations and rioting in Portland.
A shooting rang out about 11:08 p.m. Friday outside an apartment building near the 600 Block of NE 87th Avenue. The Portland Police Bureau said in an update Saturday that more than 150 rounds were fired and bullets struck at least eight occupied apartments and seven vehicles. One round struck a woman in the arm, and responding officers applied a tourniquet before she was transported to the hospital by ambulance with injuries that were not life-threatening.
“This is America and it’s a war zone with 150 shots in an apartment complex close to a Christian university. How can we explain that?” Aragon Marks, who lives at the building, told Fox 12 Oregon.
Though it was not immediately clear whether the shooting was linked to demonstrations seen in Portland nearly every night since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the end of May, another resident, Kemoh Sulimani, connected the violence to the city’s efforts to defund police.
“They had a gang violence task force that are no longer funded, which is unfortunate because as soon as that defunding happened all of this really peaked up,” Sulimani told Fox 12.
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Until these “demonstrators” are shot, with lead, none of this will stop.
It’s all a myth!
Arrests don’t do any good when city council people bail the bastards out in hours so they can just keep going. The Democrats are running this violence and keeping it going on purpose.
There is no reason for anyone to own a military style rifle like an AR-15.
I keep wondering why the people of Portland and Seattle keep electing these Communists??? Does anybody out there have an explanation?
Another destroyed city brought to you by Democrat policies.
150 rounds? Perps must be
lousy shots, one person wounded
I would not have guessed there are that many ‘gun nuts’ in Portland. I mean, with the leftists being against guns and all...
” Portland sees PEACEFUL 150-round shooting at apartment building, as PEACEFUL crowds continue PEACEFUL violent clashes with THE EVIL MR. TRUMP’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL ILLEGITIMATE OCCUPYING INVASIVE UNINVITED VIOLENCE-PROVOKING JACKBOOTED GESTAPO AGENT-PROVOCATEUR THUG police, WHO TURNED THE SUMMER OF LOVE’S SWEETNESS AND LIGHT AND EVERYBODY JUST GETTING ALONG SO SWELL INTO AN UNPROVOKED HORRIFYING MASSACRE IN A SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF HELL”.
That’s what they meant to say.
Sounds like Mostar-1993. This would be enough to trigger a thousand residents of the mid-town area to pack up and leave.
151 rounds is definitely non-peaceful.
as the Department of Homeland Security continues to weigh plans to withdraw from the liberal Oregon city
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Sounds more like a retreat than a “withdrawal”.
They want it to go national?
He will easily be reelected. It ain’t him, but those that elected him and that is the vast majority of those that live there.
The electorate is Communist
The Feds need to go in there and CLEAN IT UP.
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The fact that the mayor has not been recalled indicates the residents are OK with the mayhem, crime and destruction. Its even possible that replacing the mayor could result in the election of an even more radical one.
There is simply no reasoning with these people out there. The reputation and economic viability of their city has already been destroyed for decades to come yet they seem to take pride in their notoriety. How do you clean up a deeply embedded problem like that?
Scratch Portland as anywhere any sane person would want to visit. Dummocraps are trashing city after city, turning them into feces-filled bombed out trash heaps.
The electorate is Communist
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Correct. Its who they are. They don’t see themselves as part of our country or our system of government. Come to think of it, neither do a lot of other cities and states. So much for being the ‘United States’ anymore.
Give China a one year lease on the city.
They will clean up the mess. :-)
This can’t be! I saw a headline that after the feds pulled out, Portland was more peaceful!
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In LIB logic (WOW, hard to put those two words together) they can now BLAME PDJT because he pulled the ‘troops’ out and left the undermanned and underfunded LEO to defend against a ruthless enema(sic)
NO matter what PDJT does, it will be WRONG...so may has well set an example and go clean the mess up.
After two months one would think the citizens would have put a stop to it...
LEO had better ‘worry’ when the Schiff really hits the fan because they alread have local Govt & the ‘protestors’ against them, (IF and) When the general public moves they will also be against LEO because they have stood by and forced the hand of the GP.
Which side is the Union on (DUMB question, I know) the Union has to figure out how to keep the ‘subjects’ paying dues and still be able to fund the people that are trying to put them out of business...
MADNESS!!!!!!
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