MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
He's basically pleading with the community for help:
Portland Police Bureau @ PortlandOregon.gov, Aug. 19, 12:27
The destruction at the Multnomah Building last night occurred on yet another night of senseless criminal activity in the City of Portland. Breaking windows, using accelerants to ensure a fire catches and damaging property are not solutions, but further demonstrate the intent to engage in anarchy at the expense of the entire community.
To effect change, we must work to build and not destroy. This is more than property paid for by community members; these buildings host critical materials and spaces that provide essential services and support to our community at large. The damage is costing millions of dollars that could be used to help people during an already challenging time.
Officers continue to respond each night, knowing they will have rocks, fireworks, and more thrown at them. They see the injuries sustained by their co-workers and wonder if this will be the night they are injured as well. Officers continue to respond in order to protect life and safety and arrest those responsible for criminal acts. Morale is low as they face what appears to be endless destruction within the City they took an oath to serve and protect. I am bolstered by their grit and determination to do everything they can each and every night to prevent a worst case scenario.
We continue to get asked how this will end and how the violence will stop. The solution is in a critical mass of community and partners coming together to denounce this criminal activity and call it out as it does not represent what we know our community at large wants or values. The solution includes broad support for the police to do their job in exhausting and challenging circumstances. The solution also includes elected officials and people in positions of power coming together in support of the real change, but against those who continue to feel empowered to act in a way that devalues our City with every brick thrown, every fire lit, and every crime committed.
The stakes are high and the world is watching. We are on the national stage right now. I would much rather be known for being leaders in change rather than nightly violence.
Comments
From the City of Portland website "About Us" Chief Chuck Lovell
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 11:18pm
Criminy, it's still going on. Some found some armed Feds at an ICE facility to taunt. I feel sorry for Portland is all I can say, nightly roaming bands of anarchist "performance artists" imaging themselves Robin Hood, who knows where they will turn up next and what havoc they can cause. I didn't check other feeds to see if there were other "actions" in other neighborhoods as is often the case
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 3:22am
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 4:30pm
long thread of grownup liberals "mugged" by video of Portland brats, nearly ready to chant "lock 'em up": or er, "mebbe bring the Trump goons back"?
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/22/2020 - 2:54am
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/22/2020 - 7:31pm
Portland PD about the childish war games between two teams today (which I mentioned on the CA wildfire news thread):
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/22/2020 - 10:42pm
No let up: News Last night Portland Police declare a riot at Penumbra Kelly Building
link is to Twitter news compilation
The incident officer declared the event at Penumbra Kelly Building as a riot after officers were "struck by rocks, bottles and other dangerous objects" while trying to move the "unlawful assembly." This comes amid ongoing demonstrations in Portland, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
Video via @OmarJimenez
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/23/2020 - 1:17pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 12:09am
They are
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 12:14am
now this is an interesting twitter interaction, lol:
Edit to add: it's a parody account, but that there is one is something funny in itself.
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 12:26am
Editorial: Leaders must speak against protest violence
“What happened last night at the Multnomah Building does not help us move the work forward and create the change that people are demanding,” Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury said Wednesday. “Attacking the community involvement office and burning it is not helpful.”
By The Oregonian Editorial Board, Posted Aug 23, 2020 @ OregonLive.com
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 2:55am
Portland police stand by as Proud Boys and far-right militias flash guns and brawl with antifa counterprotesters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/22/portland-police-far-right-protest/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_portland-941pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
The department needs to be reconfigured. The correct structure is not working.
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:37am
repeat of what I posted upthread on this, the Portland police have been publicly saying they do not have the numbers to deal with everything going on and are crying for help.
This is specifically on the incident:
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 3:23pm
and THEN GO BACK AND READ THE ORIGINAL POST at the top of the thread
He's basically pleading with the community for help:
Portland Police Bureau @ PortlandOregon.gov, Aug. 19, 12:27
So what you call "reconfiguring" IN PORTLAND, IF you are going to have this level of protests as a permanent thing, and you want them around when right wingers protest against left wingers, well then what you need is MORE POLICE NOT LESS.
But also as you can see, many of the leftie protesters there feel very strongly that they don't need ANY police at all! You can't have your cake and eat it too. You don't want police, that means you want the community and not the police to handle right wing protesters when they arrive.
It is incredibly fucking hypocritical to complain you want the cops there to protect you when you are protesting eveyr night that you want them abolished. Which is exactly what most of the protesters left on the streets of Portland want now.
Reconfigured my ass, they need more cops now because their eternal protests have drawn counter protesters. That's the way it works!
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 3:34pm
It's really so clueless to blame the cops for not protecting the professional protesters in Portland from "Proud Boys" types. They don't have the manpower to deal with the professional protesters daily activities much less the right wingers they are now drawing.
I got a better idea, how to keep the P.D. force small and save taxpayers money: ENOUGH KABUKI ON THE STREETS, GO HOME, AGITATE ON THE INTERNET, LET THE "COPS" or lack of them, ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK HANDLE IT.
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 3:39pm
Or at least no looting, no burning buildings, no violence. If the protests were peaceful the police might be able to protect them.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 4:27pm
Whole situation in Portland is absurd, way past any episode of "Portlandia" and not at all like most of the rest of the country. They've now got about as "woke" a Police Dept. as one could have in a democracy, read what the Chief writes, he's a wokee. Radical brats who think they own the streets being led by a few professional anarchists need a FDR type to send them to fight wildfires in CA instead of starting fires on Portland streets. At least until the nite clubs return for them to hangout in.
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 5:33pm
From the WaPo article
The decision not to intervene was a striking contrast to police tactics at several left-leaning Black Lives Matter protests in recent weeks. Officers have consistentlydeclared unlawful assemblies and riots at nighttime protests that have devolved into property damage and projectiles thrown at police. Although those events have involved significant property damage at times, they have not involved firearms or rampant brawling among demonstrators.
Edit to add:
"We have a large group of antifa trying to flank us an you. We are stopping them for now... but not sure how long."
This is one of hundreds of text messages sent between Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Lt. Jeff Niiya and Joey Gibson, leader of Vancouver alt-right group Patriot Prayer over the past two years. Like many messages discovered in a records request made in August by the Portland Mercury, it reflects many of the public's suspicions that the Portland police have been sympathetic—if not protective—of the right-wing extremist group.
https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/02/14/25885836/texts-show-protective-relationship-between-portland-cops-and-patriot-prayer
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 4:48pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 8:56pm
FBI wanted poster for 10 individuals oossibly involved in the Multnomah arson (9 are clearly white):
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/28/2020 - 3:07am
deleted; see below for comment
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/29/2020 - 2:31am
Mayor is not left enough for the warriors and partiers
even tho:
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/29/2020 - 2:30am
Bright young things say "Send him to The Hague":
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/29/2020 - 2:36am
and as night falls:
no surprise that there's Banksy fans in the crew
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/29/2020 - 3:52am
they do it on social media to encourage chaos, might as well do it brick and mortar too:
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 12:34am
Portland protester convicted of arson in police precinct fire gets probation, community service
Updated Aug 26, 2020; Posted Aug 26, 2020
By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/OregonLive
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/02/2020 - 11:58pm
March to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s home declared riot Monday as burning debris thrown into building: Key takeaways
By Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/OregonLive and Beth Nakamura | The Oregonian/OregonLive
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 12:05am
Federal charges filed against 74 in Portland protest violence
74 suspects charged with Federal crimes committed during Portland Black Lives Matter protests, looting, arson and physical assault by the U.S. Justice Department
Charges include assaulting federal officers, arson, failing to obey lawful orders, and damaging federal property
By Ray Hanania @ suburbanchicagoland.com (what a surprise venue NOT), Sept. 1. Obviously copied from press release, so I am copying in full
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 12:19am
‘Failed system ... failed leadership’: 3 resign from Portland’s police oversight board in 24 hours
In resignation letters submitted Wednesday, members said they believed the current system for police accountability was broken
By Rebecca Ellis @ opb.org, Sept. 2
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 2:56am
by Sarah Cline of the A.P. from Portland, Sept. 2
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 3:00am
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 3:32am