Pozzed Mayor Ted Wheeler of heroin needle paradise Portland is giving a press conference right now:
www.youtube.com
Lots of standard "we don't stand for violence" rhetoric. But he explicitly blamed Trump and the people in the caravan for coming to incite violence. Absolutely disgusting. This guy is victim blaming the victim for being shot while his corporate DA makes noises that they'll follow the law in this case. What that means, exactly, is up in the air. Wheeler claims he's asked for the NG and Kate Brown denied it. Says he believes the departments have been "successful in collaborating" so far without the NG, which is absolutely horse shit. This guy needs to jump off a cliff in Minecraft.
Edit: The police commissioner (or whatever his title is) claims they only had 30 officers available Saturday night. How in God's name do they think defunding the police is a worthwhile goal when it leads to having only 30 officers present to keep peace between hundreds of pro-Trump caravaners and hundreds of black bloc antifa spergs? I used to think the police were the politicized victims in Portland, but they're so pozzed they won't even call out how Wheeler and the city council is destroying their community.
Edit 2: "It's hard to characterize it as a Black Lives Matter thing or the nature of the conflict" this guy is a joke. 4chan has better intelligence on what happens in Portland than their own government.
Edit 3: Now Wheeler is complaining about Trump's mean tweets. Asking how it helps anyone. Well, I think he's missed the point. Most people consider them working together, which is what Wheeler is calling for, as Portland accepting federal help—something which has been offered multiple times publicly. I really have no clue what "working together" means outside of a rhetorical context since Wheeler refuses to push for federal aid. Claims he thinks every day "Am I doing all I possibly can for the community" but I guess calling the feds to take over securing the streets is not a possibility...which is why Trump resorts to ridicule. Pretty simple in my view.
Edit 4: DA Mike Schmidt: "We are prioritizing the resources of the DA office to focus on violent crime" except they haven't charged any violent rioter with anything that sticks. God, these people
want their community to fail. This is so mealy mouthed. "We are looking to see where the law has been broken" then says a bunch of time consuming things that are "underway" for a prosecutable case. I doubt it.
Edit 5: "Even our police doesn't have enough facts [to determine what retribution would be aimed at]." Again, 4CHAN ANALYZED THE FACTS AND IDENTIFIED THE INDIVIDUAL. Why are your police just talking to witnesses and trying to find "extra" film footage? There is enough that is compiled
on this very thread to identify the murder as a murder and to identify the perpetrator by name/tattoo.