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Portland Prosecutors Drop 90 Percent of Cases Stemming from Riots

10/08/2020 12:23:39 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 34 replies
Breitbart ^ | October 08 2020 | ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

Prosecutors in Portland, Oregon, have dismissed charges on 90 percent of the protesters arrested during Antifa and anti-police riots in September. One had also been charged with attempted murder, assault, and arson. Of the 213 arrested that month, only cases for 19 are pending. In addition to dropping 9 out of every 10 cases in September, authorities dismissed more than 70 percent of the almost 1,000 arrests since May, a case tracker kept by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office revealed. The figure is worsened by reports from The Oregonian that more cases have been dismissed than those shown on...
After Chicago Looting and Coronavirus, Businesses Consider Closing Shop. On Jeweler’s Row, businesses saw their inventory wiped out. “Forty-two years of business—what I have is gone.”

08/11/2020 5:10:18 PM PDT · by karpov · 76 replies
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 11, 2020 | Joe Barrett

CHICAGO—Terry Te pulled gleaming trays of wedding and engagement rings from a safe on Tuesday morning and arranged them in the glass cases of his jewelry shop that had been the site of chaos just the day before. Mr. Te, 36 years old, got a call around 3:15 a.m. Monday that people were trying to break into the building that houses his store, Imperial Jewelry, along Chicago’s downtown strip known as Jeweler’s Row. He grabbed his gun and bulletproof vest and rushed downtown. What he saw when he got there was a scene that played out along some of the...

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Portland Prosecutors Drop 90 Percent of Cases Stemming from Riots

After Chicago Looting and Coronavirus, Businesses Consider Closing Shop. On Jeweler’s Row, businesses saw their inventory wiped out. “Forty-two years of business—what I have is gone.”