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Posted on 10/12/2020 12:16:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A group of protesters toppled statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in Portland’s South Park Block late Sunday before moving into other areas of downtown, smashing windows and engaging in other acts of destruction.
Police declared the event a riot and ordered people in the area to disperse but did not directly intervene until nearly an hour after the first statue fell. The crowd scattered when police cruisers flooded the area, and officers appeared to make several arrests.
Protest organizers had promoted the event on social media as an “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage.” Monday is the federally observed holiday of Columbus Day, but many states and cities now recognize the day instead as Indigenous Peoples Day over concerns that Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas helped launch centuries of violence against indigenous populations.
The organizers had signaled their aggressive stance for the night, calling for “direct action” and demanding that the video live-streamers and photographers who had become staples of such events stay away. People in the crowd were repeatedly admonished not to film. Passersby who happened upon the group where ordered by people in the crowd to stop filming or delete photographs, including an apartment resident who had lasers shined at his eyes and a liquid thrown in his face as he appeared to film the scene from his terrace.
The group, about 200 strong, marched through downtown Portland, at one point occupying all four lanes of West Burnside Street.
As the crowd reached the South Park Blocks, a group threw chains on ropes on the Roosevelt statue, a bronze sculpture officially titled “Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider,” as others took a blowtorch to its base and splattered it with red paint.
The history has been rewritten concerning the Spanish settlement of the Americas; their small numbers were usually augmented by competing tribes against the dominant ones.
Even here in the northeast Samuel de Champlain stepped into the middle of conflicts between Hurons, Iroquois, etc.; he (and France) supported one group, and England supported the other, in struggles that had gone on long before Europeans arrived.
Check it out all you native Americans, leftists self-appointed to represent you are destroying neighborhoods for YOU, in YOUR name! Makes you look pretty bad, doesn’t it..
Americus Vespucci had slaves. Shall we change the continent’s name?
Great Idea. Let the Police counter attack big time with live ammo.
Portland is one city in America. It is NOT America.
Yeah, it’s not great...but it’s not happening all over the country. Let them burn Portland to the ground. If that is what Portland wants..so be it. My local town and neighboring city are doing fine.
First they came for General Lee and nobody cared.
“...The organizers had signaled their aggressive stance for the night, calling for “direct action” and demanding that the video live-streamers and photographers who had become staples of such events stay away...”
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Were the statues on federal land? If so they committed federal offenses.
“Day of Rage” is a direct reference to the Weather Underground, whose members were trained in Cuba and remain active in mentoring today’s rioters (contrary to Christopher Wray, they’re not just an “idea”).
Forget it, Jake. It’s Portland.
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