Portland has been a concentrator for rebellion for decades. It's Portland, its a weird place, FFS Maximum Possible Stranger used to live there. They have hosted all sorts including Proud boys and Boogaloo Boyz. Have you seen Portlandia? They choose to have it as a community, they are not victims. What happens is what always happens, eventually the locals change their minds and it calms down.
Well here is the end result for Portland - the Feds are back since the local police have been ordered not to control the ANTIFA violence. Federal Officers Return to Portland as Cops Declare Riot for Second Night Running https://www.thedailybeast.com/feder...as-cops-declare-riot-for-second-night-running An 84th night of protests in Portland, Oregon, has seen demonstrators clash with federal officers for the first time in several weeks after a crowd descended on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Wednesday. According to the Oregonian, Federal officers have not been seen in the city since they late July, when they clashed with protesters while guarding two federal buildings. For the second night running, police declared protests to be a riot. Throughout the night, protesters reportedly tagged the ICE building with graffiti, broke windows, and lit fires in the streets. Officers used stun grenades and gas to break up the crowd, although it was unclear which law enforcement agency used the weapons. Police had also declared a riot on Tuesday after protesters lit fires, threw rocks and smashed windows at county government offices.
Democrat Debbie Dingell explains it in very clear words... better than any else has... that they will lose the election due to the violence. The Democrats need to come out in active support of the police or they are sunk in 2020. Rep. Debbie Dingell warns Democrats that voter concerns over violence could be more important than trade this election year https://news.yahoo.com/rep-debbie-d...-than-trade-this-election-year-002500849.html Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell has a stark warning for her fellow Democrats: The spike in violence in many urban areas, combined with attacks on the police, could become the wedge issue that once again costs her party the electoral votes of her state, and possibly the election. “Law enforcement and support of law enforcement is an issue I am seeing in the suburbs [and] is an issue we really do need to pay attention to,” Dingell told the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast. “You’ve seen what’s happening in the urban cities and some of this crime and the violence that you’re seeing at some of these protests. And Donald Trump is trying to use it as a wedge issue.” Dingell, the widow of the popular Michigan Rep. John Dingell, famously warned the Hillary Clinton campaign four years ago it was in danger of losing Michigan because of frustration among voters about trade agreements that critics charged cost the jobs of American workers. Her forecast proved prescient as Trump narrowly carried the state by 11,000 votes. Now, she said, violence and lawlessness could play the same role this year as trade did in 2016 if the Biden-Harris campaign and the Democratic Party as a whole doesn’t make a stand for public safety. It’s a message she says she has delivered to the Biden campaign, but worries that Democrats will find it too “uncomfortable” a subject to talk about. “I’ve flagged it for everybody that this could be the trade issue and we can’t let [Trump] use it as a wedge issue,” Dingell said in the interview. Dingell made clear she has been supportive of the Black Lives Matters protests in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. And Biden, for his part, while endorsing the protests, has also said that he opposes calls to “defund the police.” And in remarks that were broadcast on the opening night of this week’s virtual convention, Biden affirmed that “most cops are good.” But Dingell indicated that Biden — who will formally accept his party’s nomination Thursday night — may need to do more than that. Although most polls show Biden with a comfortable lead in Michigan right now — with some giving him as much as a 16-point lead — Dingell said she doesn’t believe them and sees worrisome trends in recent weeks. In light of a spike in violence in Detroit, she said that she is being invited to an increasing number of “support law enforcement events” in her district, which surrounds the city, and she worries the national party isn’t taking the threat seriously enough. “Every Sunday the last month there’s been an event in my district and I am there and I’m thanking law enforcement for what they do,” Dingell said. “This COVID is just creating a lot of stress. I have had several really tragic murders. In my district alone, a family of four was killed last weekend, another family was. In those communities it’s the law enforcement, it’s the local police and the sheriffs departments who are going in, figuring out what’s wrong, finding the perpetrators, arresting them.” “There are bad apples in law enforcement and we have to have the discussion about systematic racism in this country and it is a fact that a young Black man will be treated differently than a young white man if stopped,” Dingell added. “But we can have both discussions and too many people are afraid of having uncomfortable discussions — and that is a mistake for us as Democrats.” Dingell emphasized the critical role that law enforcement has played in a Michigan grappling with the coronavirus, including by supporting overwhelmed citizens. “They do wellness calls, they respond to domestic violence, they are the glue of a lot of the communities as well,” Dingell said. Dingell said it is important for the Democratic Party to remember that, as with teachers, law enforcement should be considered essential personnel. “Our law enforcement, like our teachers, are social workers,” she said. “Domestic abuse is really on the rise. ... Who’s the first responding?” Dingell said that despite Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s popularity and the polls showing Biden ahead, Democrats should not assume Michigan will go their way in the presidential election. Among other things, Dingell said, many swing voters in Michigan are upset with Whitmer for her stay-at-home order, issued at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve got to work very hard to make sure every single vote turns out in November,” Dingell said.
The days of ANTIFA rioters claiming to be "press" are over... Portland protest 'press' seen throwing objects at police, video shows Police have previously accused people identified as 'press' of throwing objects at police, shining lasers at them https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protest-press-throwing-objects-police People who purportedly identified themselves as “PRESS” on their clothing during the ongoing protests in Portland were caught on camera throwing objects at law enforcement officers. Andy Ngo, editor-at-large of The Post Millennial, tweeted late Wednesday local time that protesters from the crowd of demonstrators “throwing projectiles at officers” included people who had marked themselves as “PRESS.” The person who captured the video that Ngo shared, who identified themselves as part of a “press collective in PDX,” did not include any information on their own Twitter page about "press" allegedly throwing the items. The video also shows someone pointing a large green laser at the officers. Portland has endured more than 80 nights of increasingly violent and destructive demonstrations that have at times devolved into riots. It’s also not the first time people who had identified themselves as being members of the press have allegedly acted out. Late Saturday into Sunday morning, police said people who identified themselves as “press” threw objects at police. Two officers went to the hospital after being injured by flying objects, which included a 9.5-pound rock, police said. A day before, police said “several people with ‘press’ affixed to them shined flashlights in officers eyes.” At the beginning of the month, people with “press” markings repeatedly threw objects at police, the Portland Police Bureau reported. On Wednesday night, authorities declared a riot at a Portland protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. People spray painted windows on the building, used traffic cones to block security cameras, and tried to break windows, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Demonstrations in which fires have been set, objects have been thrown and police have fired “crowd control munitions” have gripped Oregon’s biggest city for more than two months following the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, died after a white police officer held his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes despite Floyd’s repeated shouts that he could not breathe. (More at above url)
Those alt right false flaggers just can't help themselves. Now they're wearing press credentials? What's next, Indian costumes?
I just passed by my local post office branch and the lefterrhoids are out there picketing bigtime: "STOP THE BS, SAVE THE USPS" type of thing. They don't want to let you lay a finger on the post office. But probably next week "protesters" will loot it and it burn it to the ground. They will be fine with that. They might even join in with them.