Portland protests turn peaceful after Trump Troopers leave

Oh look at tallanvor, coming out the Trump closet for his 54 seconds of Andy Ngo fame.

That video shows some lady without a mask with a bunch of guys with cameras in front of her and people telling the b**** to put her mask on. In typical Andy Ngo fashion, the context of the video is completely absent. Nice job dude. Clearly a violent riot in progress.

We should just have an Andy Ngo thread for you guys and then I can post all the BS he's been involved with so that context can follow him on every video that you post.

 

"Mayhem Continues, Protest Narrative Crumbles":

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mayhem...rative-crumbles-11597101805?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

Mayhem Continues, Protest Narrative Crumbles
Looters rampage in Chicago and arson returns in Portland.
By The Editorial Board
Aug. 10, 2020 7:23 pm ET

The press has been playing defense for Portland anarchists for weeks, suggesting riots and arson against a federal courthouse were provoked by federal agents protecting it. When the Trump Administration lowered the profile of its agents in an agreement with the state government, the media’s protest cheerleaders were eager to report that the real cause of the violence had gone away. “Trump ordered federal forces to quell Portland protests. But the chaos ended as soon as they left,” said a July 31 Washington Post headline.

So much for that. Over the weekend Portland police were forced to declare two riots. On Friday police said “people defied orders to disperse and threw rocks, frozen or hard-boiled eggs and commercial-grade fireworks at officers,” the Associated Press reports. Rioters also “filled pool noodles with nails and placed them in the road, causing extensive damage to a patrol vehicle.” On Saturday night, arsonists set a fire inside the Portland police union building and rioters outside landed two officers in the hospital. Rioting continued late Sunday, injuring more police.

The narrative of peaceful protesters set upon by bloodthirsty law enforcement officers in Portland is becoming unsustainable even for progressives. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who ostentatiously denounced the Trump Administration’s efforts to protect the federal courthouse, had a rendezvous with reality after people tried to set ablaze a police precinct on Wednesday night. “When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people that you have intentionally trapped inside,” he said, “you are not demonstrating. You are attempting to commit murder.”

Meanwhile in Chicago on Sunday night, hundreds of looters ransacked stores along the Magnificent Mile, one of America’s premier commercial streets. The Chicago Tribune reports that some looters “could be seen throwing merchandise into rental trucks and other large vehicles before driving away.” The city pulled up drawbridges to control entrance to the downtown, and 13 cops were injured.

Homicides in the city are up 52% compared to last year, and Alderman Brian Hopkins told CBS local news on Friday that “If people are afraid to come downtown, they fear for their life, they’re not going to want to shop here.” He said a greater police presence is needed to protect Chicago’s downtown and that he “tried to impress” the gravity of the situation to the mayor and police superintendent. “We’ll see if they respond,” he added. Judging by the mayhem of Sunday night, they did not.

All of this raises the question of how long the mainstream press and Democratic politicians can publicly maintain the fiction that violence surrounding “mostly peaceful” protests is a nuisance of little consequence and that the real villains are the police. The longer this willful distortion continues, the longer the economic immiseration of places like Chicago will persist even after the pandemic ends.
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No statisitical comparison besides a unsourced claim of 50% increase in crime when the link they provide here: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/0...cent-mile-at-risk-for-massive-store-closures/

EXPLICTLY says that theft and battery have been down in Chicago from last year.

And just like most conservative media, mere examples of rioting is enough evidence to jump to the conclusion "most protestors are rioters" as this article claims. I thought WSJ would be above that. It's their opinion section but still...

 

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