The state government also backs the "opposition" to the federal campaign to deport illegal aliens with criminal records. Portland Police officers have to accept lawful orders from the city and state officials who have power over them, and the state legislature has passed laws that prohibit police from doing their jobs. I don't know about the current force, but PPB officers who have mostly left the City for other employment or retirement did want to clean up our streets and to respond effectively to drug dealers and rioters. The increasing influence of woke extremists over the local governments and then the state government accounts for the lack of effective law enforcement response to criminal activity, especially political rioting by left wing thugs.
Yes, the leftist judges are in fact doing exactly what the Soros-funded prosecutors have been doing. The law enforcement officers arrest people, then the judges hustle them out a side door as fast as the accused appear before them. This is incredibly demoralizing to the officers as well as to the victims of the perps and to us.
Defund the police was an intentional tactic to get good cops to quit so they could be replaced with the new version of brown shirts who won't have any moral qualms with doing the lefts dirty work.
You mentioned that antifa parked their cars when they come to ice. Is this typical for antifa members to arrive alone or with a car full? Do they carpool? Did they all park together?
It seems like an easy way to catch them would be a parking lot full of Antifa cars?
I assume they still use license plates in Portland? Maybe not?
If I wanted to stop antifa from showing up night after night and going home for some sleep, I might take away their easy and routine commute?
Maybe if they have to walk home they won't be fully rested for the next evening of rioting?
It seems like antifa rioters are the symptom of antifa sympathizers in charge of law and order in Portland?
I had the distinct "pleasure" of watching a small group of Antifa in action in Tumwater Washington last Saturday. They acted identical to what Andi, Brandi Kruse and Kaite Daviscourt have been saying and showing all along. The difference was there were 100 or more conservative people present, many of them were men and they were mostly big strong hardworking men. Along with all these men there were security guards. Antifa had very little effect on the crowd of those listening to Brandi Kruse and others at a signature gathering event. They used bullhorns equipped with sirens, pans to bang on and face coverings. Several women wore head coverings, as well. It appeared they had a pre-arranged "victim" who started yelling at the security guards and later laid in the gutter as if "she" had been struck and injured in some way. They were filming all of that. "She" also attempted to move into the crowd listening to speakers with her bullhorn but was blocked by several women and myself. There were also peaceful appearing protestors with their Gaza signs a distance from the loud group, which I am sure were filmed to show this as a peaceful demonstration. Their message and signage were mostly the same as ICE demonstrations, which I found odd, since our protest was about boys in girls' sports and parental rights in schools. I might not have seen all of the signs, since almost all of us ignored the Antifa types. They did call us and Trump "pedos" several thousand times. Firsthand and safe, was very cool, yet disgusting to watch.
Sending only positive healing energy, vibrations, frequencies, and prayers, along with truck loads of love, big but gentle hugs, and monolithic tons of PERSEVERANCE always!
You did GREAT, Andy. I hope you can reflect for a moment on the validation of your life's work that occurred. The POTUS waxed eloquently on you and your work. God Bless, man.
I’m a Portland resident who has heard Chief Day speak live several times and I have an ongoing familiarity with the various players and people. The idea that he is somehow in league with or supportive of antifa is just fanciful to me. I understand why Andy is incredibly hostile to antifa, as am I, but I think his attempts to depict Day as a supporter are misguided. We have an absolute leadership crisis in Portland, and Day consistently emerges as one of the people trying to build order out of chaos in a mature and serious way
While I respect your opinion, the actions of the Police in Portland would demonstrate quite clearly that the person in charge, who is leading the police force, is supporting his bosses and the other "leaders" in Portland who are complicit in every response in supporting Antifa and not democracy or law. It has to be a tough choice to continue in that role with bosses like he has, however. He did come across on video as minimizing the conflict in favor of Antifa and is misleading in the effect of Antifa and other drug-oriented criminals in Portland. It appears to me that the chaos in Portland and Seattle is created and encouraged by the "leaders" in Portland. Chief Day is one of those leaders.
I view him as someone who is absolutely committed to following the law, but he's also got constraints and lots of experience to show that a ball-busting approach that is unnecessarily belligerent in its response will undoubtedly lead to more violence and chaos. He is absolutely not encouraging chaos. Those who seem to--based on ongoing opposition to cops/police funding and insanely overreaching police "supervision" by citizens--are the DSA members of the Portland City Council, the Mult Cty chair, and the public employee unions, who have an outsized voice in what goes on in Oregon and move a lot of money. For Chief Day to keep the police operational, he has to navigate all of this. The situation on the ground currently is also ridiculous in that it seems like the Trump administration has inflamed what was a pretty modest protest situation. That totally invigorates our crazies. We could have used federal help a few years ago when they were firing mortars at the federal courthouse. At this point it seems 100% counterproductive.
Thank you for your comments. I accept what you are saying about Day and the difficult job he has, and that he is trying to balance many plates in the air that are pre-unbalanced. But I take issue with the thought that Trump is inflaming the situation. If the city of Portland was remotely interested in Federal law and sought to work with ICE and not work against them, the situation would not have called for Trump to take any action, whatsoever. In my opinion, Trump and his federal leadership cannot continue to allow ICE (and other federal buildings) to be pulverized with harassers every night who say they are peaceful but are clearly not. It is not peaceful to play loud music, use megaphones with sirens, break windows, spray paint the building, throw rocks and other objects, and block ICE agents' access to the facility. I am speaking about after nightfall when city leaders and most of Portland are sleeping. Meanwhile, the local news is avoiding any truth. Your local media will not show any of this, thereby hiding the truth and influencing the masses that what Trump is doing is wrong. I don't know if he is intending to put troops on the streets in Portland, but I am not in favor of that action.
Thank you for the respectful dialog. Much appreciated. I share your distrust of local media. On this issue I rely on Nancy Rommelman's substack and this one, and some other local journalists. God knows I do not rely for any information on the legacy media.
This place was a burning cauldron in 2020 and I would have welcomed federal intervention--it was really out of control and our mayor at the time was out their protesting like an imbecile along with Antifa. I think things now are quite different.
At the point that President Trump called for the National Guard to be deployed in Portland, there were literally only a few ragtag protesters in front of the building. Yes, they were loud and obnoxious, but that that's not sufficient to warrant federal intervention--it was not like LA with the cars on fire. (This is just a few blocks from my downtown office and it really is quite a small area we're talking about). From what I can discern, President Trump saw footage on TV that was actually from our horrible BLM riots years ago and not from the recent ICE situation, and that old footage provided his impetus to intervene. For that reason, I think the underlying decision is problematic.
Now our crazies are all riled up and probably creating something that feels like it more legitimately requires intervention. But I strongly suspect if this whole situation just went away, they would as well.
I should also say that using military personnel to address a public safety/law enforcement issue is nuts, and it sounds like we may have common ground there. I have adult kids who are officers in both spheres and the training you get in the military bears no resemblance to the de-escalation training that public safety officers get. It just seems like a reckless way to deploy what are military forces and I don't support it. And I say that as someone deeply critical of almost every decision Portland makes.
The time has come for the HHS and the DOJ to come through and protect our law enforcement officers. ALL law abiding LEOs.
Portland Police are breaking the law. District judges cannot dictate the policy of the Executive branch.
The state government also backs the "opposition" to the federal campaign to deport illegal aliens with criminal records. Portland Police officers have to accept lawful orders from the city and state officials who have power over them, and the state legislature has passed laws that prohibit police from doing their jobs. I don't know about the current force, but PPB officers who have mostly left the City for other employment or retirement did want to clean up our streets and to respond effectively to drug dealers and rioters. The increasing influence of woke extremists over the local governments and then the state government accounts for the lack of effective law enforcement response to criminal activity, especially political rioting by left wing thugs.
They are breaking Federal Law however, which supersedes state law. So we will se how this plays out in court once again by leftist radical judges.
Yes, the leftist judges are in fact doing exactly what the Soros-funded prosecutors have been doing. The law enforcement officers arrest people, then the judges hustle them out a side door as fast as the accused appear before them. This is incredibly demoralizing to the officers as well as to the victims of the perps and to us.
Defund the police was an intentional tactic to get good cops to quit so they could be replaced with the new version of brown shirts who won't have any moral qualms with doing the lefts dirty work.
You mentioned that antifa parked their cars when they come to ice. Is this typical for antifa members to arrive alone or with a car full? Do they carpool? Did they all park together?
It seems like an easy way to catch them would be a parking lot full of Antifa cars?
I assume they still use license plates in Portland? Maybe not?
If I wanted to stop antifa from showing up night after night and going home for some sleep, I might take away their easy and routine commute?
Maybe if they have to walk home they won't be fully rested for the next evening of rioting?
It seems like antifa rioters are the symptom of antifa sympathizers in charge of law and order in Portland?
I had the distinct "pleasure" of watching a small group of Antifa in action in Tumwater Washington last Saturday. They acted identical to what Andi, Brandi Kruse and Kaite Daviscourt have been saying and showing all along. The difference was there were 100 or more conservative people present, many of them were men and they were mostly big strong hardworking men. Along with all these men there were security guards. Antifa had very little effect on the crowd of those listening to Brandi Kruse and others at a signature gathering event. They used bullhorns equipped with sirens, pans to bang on and face coverings. Several women wore head coverings, as well. It appeared they had a pre-arranged "victim" who started yelling at the security guards and later laid in the gutter as if "she" had been struck and injured in some way. They were filming all of that. "She" also attempted to move into the crowd listening to speakers with her bullhorn but was blocked by several women and myself. There were also peaceful appearing protestors with their Gaza signs a distance from the loud group, which I am sure were filmed to show this as a peaceful demonstration. Their message and signage were mostly the same as ICE demonstrations, which I found odd, since our protest was about boys in girls' sports and parental rights in schools. I might not have seen all of the signs, since almost all of us ignored the Antifa types. They did call us and Trump "pedos" several thousand times. Firsthand and safe, was very cool, yet disgusting to watch.
My intuition says yes.
Mentally ill greedy control freaks.
Sending only positive healing energy, vibrations, frequencies, and prayers, along with truck loads of love, big but gentle hugs, and monolithic tons of PERSEVERANCE always!
You did GREAT, Andy. I hope you can reflect for a moment on the validation of your life's work that occurred. The POTUS waxed eloquently on you and your work. God Bless, man.
So that naturalized person needs to be deported, submit the video to INS
Portland is often horrible but you are wrong on this now.
In what way and how do you know this?
I’m a Portland resident who has heard Chief Day speak live several times and I have an ongoing familiarity with the various players and people. The idea that he is somehow in league with or supportive of antifa is just fanciful to me. I understand why Andy is incredibly hostile to antifa, as am I, but I think his attempts to depict Day as a supporter are misguided. We have an absolute leadership crisis in Portland, and Day consistently emerges as one of the people trying to build order out of chaos in a mature and serious way
While I respect your opinion, the actions of the Police in Portland would demonstrate quite clearly that the person in charge, who is leading the police force, is supporting his bosses and the other "leaders" in Portland who are complicit in every response in supporting Antifa and not democracy or law. It has to be a tough choice to continue in that role with bosses like he has, however. He did come across on video as minimizing the conflict in favor of Antifa and is misleading in the effect of Antifa and other drug-oriented criminals in Portland. It appears to me that the chaos in Portland and Seattle is created and encouraged by the "leaders" in Portland. Chief Day is one of those leaders.
I view him as someone who is absolutely committed to following the law, but he's also got constraints and lots of experience to show that a ball-busting approach that is unnecessarily belligerent in its response will undoubtedly lead to more violence and chaos. He is absolutely not encouraging chaos. Those who seem to--based on ongoing opposition to cops/police funding and insanely overreaching police "supervision" by citizens--are the DSA members of the Portland City Council, the Mult Cty chair, and the public employee unions, who have an outsized voice in what goes on in Oregon and move a lot of money. For Chief Day to keep the police operational, he has to navigate all of this. The situation on the ground currently is also ridiculous in that it seems like the Trump administration has inflamed what was a pretty modest protest situation. That totally invigorates our crazies. We could have used federal help a few years ago when they were firing mortars at the federal courthouse. At this point it seems 100% counterproductive.
Thank you for your comments. I accept what you are saying about Day and the difficult job he has, and that he is trying to balance many plates in the air that are pre-unbalanced. But I take issue with the thought that Trump is inflaming the situation. If the city of Portland was remotely interested in Federal law and sought to work with ICE and not work against them, the situation would not have called for Trump to take any action, whatsoever. In my opinion, Trump and his federal leadership cannot continue to allow ICE (and other federal buildings) to be pulverized with harassers every night who say they are peaceful but are clearly not. It is not peaceful to play loud music, use megaphones with sirens, break windows, spray paint the building, throw rocks and other objects, and block ICE agents' access to the facility. I am speaking about after nightfall when city leaders and most of Portland are sleeping. Meanwhile, the local news is avoiding any truth. Your local media will not show any of this, thereby hiding the truth and influencing the masses that what Trump is doing is wrong. I don't know if he is intending to put troops on the streets in Portland, but I am not in favor of that action.
Thank you for the respectful dialog. Much appreciated. I share your distrust of local media. On this issue I rely on Nancy Rommelman's substack and this one, and some other local journalists. God knows I do not rely for any information on the legacy media.
This place was a burning cauldron in 2020 and I would have welcomed federal intervention--it was really out of control and our mayor at the time was out their protesting like an imbecile along with Antifa. I think things now are quite different.
At the point that President Trump called for the National Guard to be deployed in Portland, there were literally only a few ragtag protesters in front of the building. Yes, they were loud and obnoxious, but that that's not sufficient to warrant federal intervention--it was not like LA with the cars on fire. (This is just a few blocks from my downtown office and it really is quite a small area we're talking about). From what I can discern, President Trump saw footage on TV that was actually from our horrible BLM riots years ago and not from the recent ICE situation, and that old footage provided his impetus to intervene. For that reason, I think the underlying decision is problematic.
Now our crazies are all riled up and probably creating something that feels like it more legitimately requires intervention. But I strongly suspect if this whole situation just went away, they would as well.
I should also say that using military personnel to address a public safety/law enforcement issue is nuts, and it sounds like we may have common ground there. I have adult kids who are officers in both spheres and the training you get in the military bears no resemblance to the de-escalation training that public safety officers get. It just seems like a reckless way to deploy what are military forces and I don't support it. And I say that as someone deeply critical of almost every decision Portland makes.