Posted on 06/17/2021 10:55:04 AM PDT by dontreadthis
Following the criminal indictment of a fellow officer, the entire Portland Police Rapid Response Team made the unanimous decision to resign, according to police sources via Portland news outlet KXL.
Cory Budworth, 40, is the first officer in the county to be prosecuted for using force during a violent protest.
The Rapid Response Team is a group of volunteer officers who respond to civil disobedience, demonstrations and riots. At the time of the incident, Officer Budworth was assigned to the Rapid Response Team for crowd control.
Indeed, Budworth was indicted for breaking up an Antifa riot in 2020, charged with misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He was accused of “unlawfully, knowingly and recklessly causing physical injury” to Teri Jacobs on August 18.
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Gonna need confirmation it is actually true that an officer was indicted for breaking up Antifa riot.
This weekend should be interesting.
Portland officer was recorded hitting a protester with a baton. He’s charged with assault.
Washington Post ^ | June 16, 2021 | Derek Hawkins
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Well, not exactly. They offer tips and suggestions on how to destroy things and appear peaceful while doing it.
The article does not say approx. how many people are on that rapid response team. I was surprised to read that this group is a volunteer organization. They are not even being paid to put their lives in danger.
A good move on their part. Now they need to leave the Police Force entirely.
The police are not allowed to do their job and are persecuted/prosecuted for trying to keep order.
They resigned from the police force or from the rapid response team?
The only FBI agents I’d trust right now are Mulder and Scully.
and they should have taken all the guns and cars with 'em.
They just resigned from the rapid response unit.
They will get their resumes out there—and bail out of the city at a time of their choosing...
In other words, the left should be allowed to riot with impunity, and any effort to stop them is a crime.
IF this is true, and IF the whole team resigned, I cannot stop thinking that the whole team just might show up at the next Antifa party, with streetsweepers. They HAVE resigned, right?
Chaos os coming, Woke leftists re trying to bring about the complete collapse and destruction of the USA, and to create a Marxist regime. Do they not know they will be the first executed by the Marxist leadership?
It’s insanity like this that will eventually provoke the “domestic extremism” that the left so desperately wants. That’s why they are getting more and more brazen in their double standards and extremist policies.
The way the title reads, they resigned from the Rapid Response Team. Which solves nothing. They as regular Police Officers can be assigned the same duty. They need to get the hell out of the Police Department.
There’s a video out there. But claims that this officer whacked a protester with a baton are completely false.
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