Portland Mayor removes head from butt, calls it a riot

Ted Wheeler, the failed leftist Democrat Mayor of Portland, Oregon has finally removed his head from his nether regions when he finally concluded the riot in his town was a riot and not merely a protest. His enlightenment came when the rioters tried to set fire to a police precinct and blocked the exits while cops remained inside.

No rioters were shot in the process which shows an incredible amount of restraint on the part of police. Had they shot their way out of what would have been an inferno, the left would have called it police brutality. Had the officers been burned alive, the left would have blamed them for their own demise.

But Wheeler had a rude awakening as he worried that the attempt to kill police officers would help reelect President Trump.

“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, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder," Wheeler said in a news conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.

"Don’t 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 — because you absolutely are," he said. "You are creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign. If you don’t want to be part of that, then don’t show up.”

And that is why he was upset.

After about 70 days of rioting, a riot was finally declared Wednesday evening. It finally occurred to Wheeler that it was a riot when agitators descended upon the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct building, spray-painted over security cameras, broke a glass door with a 2x4, lit a fire using an accelerant and threw fireworks and other objects at officers. The scumbags came well-prepared.

Police said that a truck also attempted to run over officers but according to NY Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Commie (D), the driver was only trying to get a loaf of bread and the cops must have been in his way, so she doesn't blame the driver.

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.

Officers used tear gas to disperse the rioters and at least eight people were arrested. A federal court order bars police from using tear gas unless a riot is declared. 

It took several months before Wheeler admitted that violent behavior, looting, burning and destroying businesses was a riot that was looking for a reason to begin and found it in the death of a man named George Floyd.

Floyd tried to pass off a counterfeit twenty dollar bill and the police were called to make an arrest. The new video shows what happened during the arrest and sheds more light on the event as Floyd was not only high on drugs, but also complained of a breathing problem before former officer Derick Chauvin put his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes at which point Floyd died. This is not to excuse Chauvin and the three officers who did nothing involved, but now it appears as if it wasn't a racially motivated or premeditated incident.

Back to Wheeler.

“I believe that city staff could have died last night,” the weasel mayor said. “I cannot and I will not tolerate that. This is not peaceful protests. This is not advocacy to advance reforms.”

But he could and he did tolerate months of rioting. It took an incident that would help Trump's reelection for Wheeler to do something about the violence.

He wasn't even concerned about how the rioting would likely spread COVID-19, for some reason. In fact, was any Democrat, or the media [but I repeat myself] worried that the nationwide protests would spread the virus? 

Wheeler also urged the peaceful protesters to avoid gatherings that could turn destructive or violent, according to Oregon Live. He did not, however, urge them to socially distance.

“If you are a nonviolent demonstrator and you don’t want to be part of intentional violence, please stay away from these areas,” Wheeler said, referring to the nonviolent demonstrators who were cheering on their violent counterparts. “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.”

If it isn't Portland, what is it, because it sure isn't Stink River, Arkansas.

The left blamed Trump for the riots because he sent in federal agents to quell the violence that began before their arrival. Then the Democrats said if the federal agents would leave, the violence would end and an agreement was struck with Gov. Kate Brown [who is white and plans to apologize for her surname lest she be canceled for racial appropriation], and ICE regarding the removal of agents, which began on July 30th.

Wheeler said the city expects “additional planned attacks on public buildings” in the coming days and said he was giving the police leeway to do what they needed to do to counter those plans as long as it can be done without threatening peaceful protesters who continue to cheer on the violence but don't get their hands bloody.

On Wednesday, the useless Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said rioters aren’t forwarding the cause of racial injustice protesters. "Portlanders need to send a strong message that enough is enough," he said. “This movement is really powerful, but the violence has taken away from it.”

In terms of racial injustice, the only law on the books that actually favors one group over another is Affirmative Action, which favors people of color over whites in the use of racial quotas in hiring and education. Its intentions were good, but it hurt a lot of people in the process.

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