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Old 05-04-2017, 09:28 AM
 
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One of the challenges is identifying the folks who do damage. They cover their faces and the behavior of some in the crowd makes it difficult to grab them. I wonder if there is some kind o of dye that could be used, similar to that in money bundles given to bank robbingers. Make it something that is difficult to wash away.
Many of the anarchists were arrested.
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Old 05-04-2017, 09:30 AM
 
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More than 99.9% of the crowd were involved in what was intended to be a peaceful marching protest. They brought their KIDS because they expected the protest to be peaceful. Then the march gets crashed, from the back, by a handful of idiots in black sweatshirts and masks who have no connection to the marchers. Yet ALL the marchers get tarred with the "rioters" brush and "property destruction" and blah blah.

Yes, by all means, arrest the very few people doing the damage - but recognize that nearly everyone there, except those few people, were not "rioting."
Yes, exactly.
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Old 05-04-2017, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Just outside of Portland
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I heard that the PPB arrested the flare throwing nutcase.
22 years old and he has messed up his life forever.
But, I hope he doesn't get to see the light of day for a while.

http://www.kptv.com/story/35336814/p...ore-patrol-car
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Old 05-04-2017, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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To have 'those in the know' turn the bad guys in is huge.

I listen to the police dispatch often at night. They spotted a garbage can in the middle of Columbia Blvd with tentacles evidently common with fire setters. They dispatched a car and asked that its retrieval be collected carefully as it is potential evidence.
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Old 05-04-2017, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Just outside of Portland
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Tentacles?

It'a worse than I thought,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Old 05-04-2017, 06:48 PM
 
Location: US
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Oh please. These people get paid by Activist groups to protests. Since it's hard to get a good job in Portland, they have no problem getting people to sign up and it appears just a small area in downtown that was disrupted. Portland is a nice place to live and the annual May day Protest will not stop people from flooding in.
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Old 05-04-2017, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Left coast
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Oh please. These people get paid by Activist groups to protests. Since it's hard to get a good job in Portland, they have no problem getting people to sign up and it appears just a small area in downtown that was disrupted. Portland is a nice place to live and the annual May day Protest will not stop people from flooding in.
where did you get that information from (I think I heard that was going around the internet)....
and, you really believe that, find it believable that people would do that(throw molotov cocktails, etc) because "its hard to get a good job in Portland"...
ouch.
the power of fake news....
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Old 05-05-2017, 03:36 AM
 
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I don't know what is worse, the perpetrators or the ones who dismiss this type of action.

Protestors DO NOT HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to destroy property, deny someone 's freedom speech, or violently attack citizens. The public officials that allow this behavior should be placed right in jail next to the perps. And yes, the public officials are allowing this disgrace to fester.

They just don't get it.
I completely agree. Nothing wrong with protesting but when you start getting disrespectful that's it you should be done and to allow this to happen is BAD for PDX police. Shame on you all.
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Old 05-05-2017, 03:50 AM
 
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If the mans voice in your ear is who I think it is (MLK), he did practice non-violence. But he also practiced non-compliance. Civil rights protesters did not follow the directives of the police, but did not violently resist either. For their trouble, they got cracked in the skull with nightsticks, bitten by vicious police dogs, sprayed by high pressure fire hoses at close range, attacked by white supremacists, gassed, occasionally shot, and usually thrown in jail. Because the police weren't on the right side of history, they are viewed as villains and the civil rights protesters were heroes.

Fast forward to today in Portland, and you have protesters expressing opinions about the state of affairs, but aren't actually being discriminated against. Furthermore, they have a friendly and relatively docile police force that must be directly and violently provoked before reacting. They know non-violent, non-compliant protest will not make them heroes, so they provoke a violent response from the cops. It's really a selfish act. Because the police won't attack them when they're being non-compliant, they up the ante in a narcissistic attempt to be viewed as a hero. Meanwhile, the vast majority of protesters who just want to march in solidarity get their message diluted and forgotten.

To anyone saying this is a sign of the horrible downfall of Portland, you're being dramatic. And those that blame Portland's liberal politics should keep in mind that those same liberal tendencies also make this a desirable and interesting place to live. Oklahoma City doesn't have May Day riots, but it's gotta be a pretty boring place to live (no offense to the OKC.)
So it's okay for the police to beat the crap because they do not comply. In reality they should not have to. Why do people NOT understand the freaking Constitution? Every single citizen has the same RIGHTS regardless of skin color ethnicity who they sleep with. Man or woman Yet people rights re continually violated and everyone seems to think it's ok because they are "colored. and the current admin is lead by this hatred and bigotry but you can turn a blind eye and that puts you in the same boat The Civil Rights protesters were HEROES the cops were THUGS and BIGOTS
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Old 05-05-2017, 04:41 AM
 
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Travel to areas in the world where there is devestation and then get back to us here in Portland. So funny.

Are there still places where entire villages wear no clothes?
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