Posted on 09/14/2020 10:31:59 AM PDT by lowbridge
On Sunday, police arrested a man who confessed to starting a brush fire with a Molotov cocktail in Portland. They booked him in Multnomah County Jail. Portland being Portland, the authorities released the suspect that evening. The man then went on to start six more fires before the police arrested him yet again. The cops took him to a hospital for a mental evaluation.
“On Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 4:35p.m., East Precinct officers were dispatched to assist Portland Fire and Rescue with a brush fire in the 9600 block of East Burnside Street,” the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reported. “Officers saw that a section of grass along the I-205 freeway was burning. Firefighters extinguished the fire. No one was injured and no structures were damaged.”
A witness identified a suspect in a nearby tent and “officers arrested the suspect, who confirmed he lit the fire with the device,” a Molotov cocktail.
Officers booked 45-year-old Domingo Lopez Jr. into jail on charges of Reckless Burning and Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree. “Arson investigators are also doing a follow-up to see if other charges are warranted.”
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The story did not end there, however. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has notoriously taken the side of violent antifa rioters against the police they attack, and he announced that his office would not prosecute many riot-related crimes, even when some of those crimes endanger the lives of police officers. Perhaps that attitude helps explain why Domingo Lopez Jr. left jail on Sunday evening. Apparently, the suspect had enough time on his hands to set a whopping six more fires before the police again detained him.
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Multnomah County Jail officials did their part to assist our country’s enemies in time for the election.
Release him again and point him at downtown Portland. Give him a can of gasoline and whisper “finish the job.”
Turning the Blue States Red one fire at a time....................
The left must never again retain power.
Portland voted for this.
Judge: Now I told you sternly the last time I let you go free that I didn’t want to see you approach my bench again in more trouble.
Arsonist: Then don’t look. I’ll be back, baby.
I have a realtor coming ASAP. Getting out!
. They should have taken the person(s) who released him to the hospital for a mental evaluation and then to the morgue.
Does he get paid per fire?
Apparently they prosecutors consider setting forest fires is a “victimless” crime, since only flora and fauna are killed.
And obviously the prosecutors are anti-environmentalists.
Forget about it Jake, it’s Portland.
He’s an arsonist...who cannot be Rehabilitated.
“Incendiaries should be shot.”
The DA hasn’t had his residence visited by protesters/rioters/arsons yet has he?
So you condone arson and terrorism. You’d likely murder 10 million conservatives living in blue state California too.
I’m a believer global warming is man-made. There was a guy in Oregon who set seven fires.
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