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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Lets see what happen to their little slice of utopia when the tax base is depleted, real estate crashes, crime escalates, insurers refuse to write polices, and banks won’t lend. Perhaps the residents won’t mind but most of the productive people who are left will exit.
Portland, Seattle and other such liberal cities are becoming ripe for protection rackets run by organized crime. They sense and are quick to exploit opportunities like this.
their hit ratio was worse than the Vietnam War
Lousy shots for sure. My thought too. Probably a good thing.
Haha, they’re “absolutely ready” for war with Republicans, but after firing 150 rounds they only managed to hit one woman in the elbow.
“The electorate is communist”
and atheist, most atheist city(D) in the US.
You are correct, the person running against this mayor is even more radical.
It looks like the democrat taliban is getting restless. They haven’t accomplished what ever their goals were and have upped the ante.
Well Portland you asked for it and here it is.
WE are all just collateral damage...There are no human consequences for libs/dems and their jack booted thugs....
since the politicians are ordering our “protect and serve” police to “Stand down” and let the Burglars, Looters, and Murders run riot in our cities,
everyone must really really get prepared to protect themselves, no more procrastinating, no more Hoping that things will get better (I share your hope but we are talking now about your very life..at least in the interim~!)
get good firearms, get good ammo, get some good target practice and self-defense instruction if you need it....its all very easy to do, and when the Democrat Nazi Commie party apparachniks come shooting for you or break into your home, you’ll at least have a “good old fashioned American chance”
They will be hell to live in and the voters wanted it that way...The only way this turns around is if the thugs go after the mayor,the mayor’s family and the city council....
This is the summer season when businesses make their money off tourists...Not here,not in New York City or a few other places...
Failing to do so otherwise will cause Portland to act as if they're an independent entity and that they have zero obligations to the federal government
Kate Brown and the rest are going to be recalled. It’s in the works. There is a local TV media blackout. They report nothing! The deep state thugs are ARMED. It’s a war.
These "cops" are acting like they're trying to discipline a naughty 4 year old, and the only "weapon they have is a cushion.
Mostly peaceful, only one wounded.
Our question for the times.
IMO, the start of the cleansing begins with recognizing that the obvious coup continues; it has been made clear by the attack on federal property. Along with many recent and perhaps current government officials, the Left is fully aware of the risks a Trump second term holds for the group's broader agenda.
It takes guts to declare that the inconceivable is in progress, i.e., a CWII. However, those states that do not arrest the attacks on the United States and then refuse federal help to quell the violence are provided for in current statutes.
Fortunately, there is reason to believe Trump is several moves ahead of the Left and, indeed, the rest of us.
Democrats to send more ammo?.
“The Feds need to go in there and CLEAN IT UP.”
Protect federal property and wait for the Equal Protection lawsuit to be favorably adjudicated.
THEN send in the US Army with a court order, arrest the office holders and shoot-to-kill the arsonists.
Leftists and their ilk are such pathetic uncivil losers. They are malignancies upon civilization everywhere. Hopefully, their leaders will spend many years in federal prison and then be exiled for the rest of their worthless lives.
The majority of the oregon voters apparently are uncivil nitwits. They love this violence and destruction. What pathetic fools. More popcorn!!!
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