{"id":61090,"date":"2021-04-18T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=61090"},"modified":"2021-04-18T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:57:44","slug":"cultural-marxists-determined-to-transform-every-city-into-a-portland-disaster-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=61090","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Marxists Determined to Transform Every American City into a &#8220;Portland&#8221; Disaster Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Portland rioters torch Apple store as another police killing sparks wave of destruction (VIDEOS)<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61091\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61091\" class=\"wp-image-61091 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/607ae58b2030275a8715d447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/607ae58b2030275a8715d447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/607ae58b2030275a8715d447-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-61091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire burns at an Apple store during protests in Portland, Oregon, April 17, 2021, in this still image taken from a video \u00a9 Reuters \/ Grace Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Rioters in Portland, Oregon wreaked havoc on the city&#8217;s downtown, smashing windows and setting an Apple store on fire. Though the city has seen nightly riots for nearly a year, the latest came after police shot a man dead.<\/p>\n<p>Another night, another riot. Protesters assembled on Friday afternoon in Lents Park, where police had shot a man dead hours earlier. The man, who local media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/oregonian-identifies-police-shooting-victim-white-social-unrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<em>\u201cwhite\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to ward off any potential\u00a0<em>\u201csocial unrest,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was carrying a replica firearm when he was killed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSocial unrest\u201d<\/em>\u00a0soon broke out anyway. Black-clad \u2018Antifa\u2019 protesters smashed the windows of banks, restaurants and a church, and spray-painted\u00a0<em>\u201cno more history\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on the shattered windows of the Oregon Historical Society. An Apple store was torched, and burned for ten minutes before firefighters could get the blaze under control. No injuries were reported by police.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1383376155357585410&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F521361-portland-apple-store-fire%2F&amp;sessionId=58073427f9b223558f2673f1f894f75b43c0b77f&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ff2e7cf%3A1618526400629&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1383376155357585410\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1383317088916307971&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F521361-portland-apple-store-fire%2F&amp;sessionId=58073427f9b223558f2673f1f894f75b43c0b77f&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ff2e7cf%3A1618526400629&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1383317088916307971\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1383330414660493318&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F521361-portland-apple-store-fire%2F&amp;sessionId=58073427f9b223558f2673f1f894f75b43c0b77f&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ff2e7cf%3A1618526400629&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1383330414660493318\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The vandals also lit fires in dumpsters and portable toilets, and police eventually declared the chaos a riot and broke it up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1383317328931147778&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F521361-portland-apple-store-fire%2F&amp;sessionId=58073427f9b223558f2673f1f894f75b43c0b77f&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ff2e7cf%3A1618526400629&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1383317328931147778\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Such scenes are commonplace in Portland. Last summer saw 100 straight nights of violence following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with rioters in Portland focusing their anger on the city\u2019s courthouse and other official buildings, although small businesses also suffered immensely.<\/p>\n<p>The unrest continued sporadically through the winter and into spring, and Portland\u2019s police union office was set on fire on Tuesday night, this time in response to the killing of Duante Wright in a botched arrest in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was criticized last year for not cracking down hard enough on the rioting, and for rebuffing then-president Donald Trump\u2019s offer of federal help. However, he has since changed tack. Declaring that the public were\u00a0<em>\u201csick and tired\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of the near-nightly chaos, he promised in February that the city would be\u00a0<em>\u201cfighting back with everything we\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wheeler told a Police Commission meeting last week that investigations into the rioting were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/521361-portland-apple-store-fire\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/521361-portland-apple-store-fire\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland rioters torch Apple store as another police killing sparks wave of destruction (VIDEOS)<\/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-61090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}