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Portland police declare riot as city’s unrest carries into new year
FOX NEWS ^ | January 1, 2020 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 01/01/2021 12:08:56 PM PST by artichokegrower

Fireworks set off in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday night had little to do with New Year’s Eve celebrations – and more to do with continuing the unrest that has plagued the city for nearly a year, according to reports.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: portland; riots
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"Participants have thrown multiple firebombs at officers and launched commercial grade fireworks at the Federal Courthouse and Justice Center," the Portland Police Bureau wrote on Twitter just as the new year arrived early Friday.


With fire bombs being thrown at police officers and small businesses being destroyed maybe the police should do a little more than posting on the internet.

1 posted on 01/01/2021 12:08:56 PM PST by artichokegrower
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The police are doing something about the situation; they’re resigning en masse.


2 posted on 01/01/2021 12:12:15 PM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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...maybe the police should do a little more than posting on the internet.

What, and be brought up on charges, fired, and sued?

3 posted on 01/01/2021 12:12:30 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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To: artichokegrower

Are these more of the mostly peaceful protests we’ve been hearing about?


4 posted on 01/01/2021 12:13:38 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: artichokegrower

“With fire bombs being thrown at police officers and small businesses being destroyed maybe the police should do a little more than posting on the internet.”

They are afraid the terrorists will will attack their own homes and kill the families of the officers. they live in fear there


5 posted on 01/01/2021 12:18:43 PM PST by realcleanguy
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Is there a point when residents will get sick of this?


6 posted on 01/01/2021 12:25:08 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
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7 posted on 01/01/2021 12:26:02 PM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: artichokegrower

The title...”Portland police declare riot as city’s unrest carries into new year”....

Has it ever not been in riot mode?


8 posted on 01/01/2021 12:27:48 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: ArcadeQuarters

No, the residents don’t care.


9 posted on 01/01/2021 12:28:06 PM PST by abbastanza
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To: realcleanguy

That is why the Portland police officers need to resign and move out of town.

Sorry—I had that backwards.

They need to move out of town and then mail in their resignation!


10 posted on 01/01/2021 12:29:13 PM PST by cgbg ( They want us to be slaves--we need to give them the middle finger--forever.)
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It’s happening, many are “retiring early” and moving to other cities and hiring on. It’s also happening in Seattle. Antifa has forced the police to leave and move to cities that are more American


11 posted on 01/01/2021 12:31:06 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Spok

If the mayor ; the district attorney ; and the city Council are all communist fuckheads and hate your guts as an LEO. whether you’re white black hispaic male female

get the hell out of town

These leftist morons need to be taught a lesson

At this point they’re so arrogant (witness google and those kind of people)
That is serious comeuppance. Is necessary

The funniest thing is

That all you have to do is leave leftists on their own ; and isolate them ; and they will destroy each other.

It’s very similar to Islamists ; another Satanist doctrine


12 posted on 01/01/2021 12:31:18 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Is there a point when residents will get sick of this?

The PDX residents SICK of this????

In the Nov.3 mayoral election, the candidate that ran against the sitting mayor was an open supporter of antifa. That was a plank of her campaign.

She lost, but not by much.

13 posted on 01/01/2021 12:33:31 PM PST by llevrok (At the end of the day, it's night. )
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To: artichokegrower
To a Democrat, the explanation is easy. Crime is caused by Capitalism. A Socialist State removes the reason for crime, (greed), so police are not required.

Simple, isn't it?

14 posted on 01/01/2021 12:34:40 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

No they won’t get sick of it. They support the rioters.

Their is one of the established beachhead 8n the take over of the US


15 posted on 01/01/2021 12:35:46 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: abbastanza

it’s a regression to the original Wild West..... then the people woke up and hired sheriffs.
All this crap has passed passed through America in the past. Just new ignorant people and old tricks.
They need to re imagine the 1800’s wheel and earn that laws are necessary to the functioning of a society.


16 posted on 01/01/2021 12:36:22 PM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: artichokegrower

They are ordered not to. If they don’t obey, they get
fired for cause which impacts their ability to find work
elsewhere.

Portland is lost for the moment.

You’d think the citizens would wake up, but they sure are
sound sleepers.


17 posted on 01/01/2021 12:37:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Buzzards circling over six states. Leftists looking more like dead game every day.)
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To: artichokegrower

Let them have the city and show the whole country what a democratic hell really looks like.


18 posted on 01/01/2021 12:38:18 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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Democratic control is screwing up the west coast of the United States! Oregon and Washington states are prime examples of why to think a little before you vote democrat. I am awed by how democratic leadership is responsible for what is going on in Portland and Seattle. It’s just a disgrace that they don’t come down hard on these thugs that are rioting and looting.


19 posted on 01/01/2021 12:39:01 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EQ)
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And then confine them all to one spot and bomb the fk out of it!


20 posted on 01/01/2021 12:39:40 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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