{"id":23906,"date":"2020-08-07T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23906"},"modified":"2020-08-07T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:59:25","slug":"wow-huge-turnaround-by-ultra-liberal-leadership-in-portland-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23906","title":{"rendered":"WOW! Huge Turnaround by Ultra-Liberal Leadership in Portland&#8212;But why!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Portland Mayor Turns On Protesters, Accuses Them Of &#8216;Attempting To Commit Murder&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was standing shoulder to shoulder with angry protesters,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/portland-mayor-tear-gassed-federal-agents-during-wednesday-protest\">gagging on tear gas<\/a>\u00a0in a show of solidarity against federal agents sent there to restore order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid690387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1RhZCoNmnw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, the federal agents are gone as Wheeler&#8217;s city continues to\u00a0<strong>spiral out of control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, Wheeler condemned rioters who tried to torch a police<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>precinct<strong>\u00a0after blocking the exits while officers were still inside<\/strong>, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-mayor-condemns-rioters-for-attempting-to-commit-murder\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside,\u00a0<strong>you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder<\/strong>,&#8221; said Wheeler in a joint press conference with Police Chief Chuck Lovell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t think for a moment that you are if you are participating in this activity, you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump \u2014 because you absolutely are,&#8221; he added. &#8220;<strong>You are creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign<\/strong>. If you don\u2019t want to be part of that, then don\u2019t show up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a riot was declared after protesters swarmed the Portland Police Bureau&#8217;s East Precinct Building &#8211; breaking glass doors, lighting a fire using an accelerant, throwing fireworks and other objects at officers, and spray-painting over security cameras. According to the report,\u00a0<strong>someone in a truck also tried to run over police officers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The front doors of the precinct were barricaded before the fire was started with more than 20 officers and civilian employees inside, police said, according to FOX 12.<\/p>\n<p>Officers used tear gas to disperse the rioters and at least eight people were arrested.\u00a0A federal court order bars police from using tear gas unless a riot is declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I believe that city staff could have died last night<\/strong>,\u201d Wheeler said. \u201cI cannot and I will not tolerate that.\u00a0<strong>This is not peaceful protests. This is not advocacy to advance reforms.<\/strong>\u201d &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-mayor-condemns-rioters-for-attempting-to-commit-murder\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you are a nonviolent demonstrator and you don\u2019t want to be part of intentional violence, please stay away from these areas,&#8221; said Wheeler. &#8220;Our community must say that this violence is not Portland, that these actions do not reflect our values and these crimes are distracting from reform, not advancing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wheeler says he anticipates &#8220;additional planned attacks on public buildings&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0in the next few days &#8211; and has authorized police to do what is necessary to respond as long as peaceful protesters aren&#8217;t threatened.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/portland-mayor-turns-protesters-accuses-them-attempting-commit-murder\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/portland-mayor-turns-protesters-accuses-them-attempting-commit-murder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Mayor Turns On Protesters, Accuses Them Of &#8216;Attempting To Commit Murder&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}