Posted on 09/14/2020 10:31:59 AM PDT by lowbridge
On Sunday, police arrested a man who confessed to starting a brush fire with a Molotov cocktail in Portland. They booked him in Multnomah County Jail. Portland being Portland, the authorities released the suspect that evening. The man then went on to start six more fires before the police arrested him yet again. The cops took him to a hospital for a mental evaluation.
“On Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 4:35p.m., East Precinct officers were dispatched to assist Portland Fire and Rescue with a brush fire in the 9600 block of East Burnside Street,” the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reported. “Officers saw that a section of grass along the I-205 freeway was burning. Firefighters extinguished the fire. No one was injured and no structures were damaged.”
A witness identified a suspect in a nearby tent and “officers arrested the suspect, who confirmed he lit the fire with the device,” a Molotov cocktail.
Officers booked 45-year-old Domingo Lopez Jr. into jail on charges of Reckless Burning and Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree. “Arson investigators are also doing a follow-up to see if other charges are warranted.”
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The story did not end there, however. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has notoriously taken the side of violent antifa rioters against the police they attack, and he announced that his office would not prosecute many riot-related crimes, even when some of those crimes endanger the lives of police officers. Perhaps that attitude helps explain why Domingo Lopez Jr. left jail on Sunday evening. Apparently, the suspect had enough time on his hands to set a whopping six more fires before the police again detained him.
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In the state of Kentucky if you catch someone in the act of arson you can use deadly force to stop them. He wouldn’t last long here.
Why shouldn’t he? The Law is now a joke, or a nightmare. It is now a game between the Police and Prosecutors. But as long as the Public as large don’t mind, the game will continue. And when the Public complains they are told to shut your mouths and ignored. There is a purpose behind all this. It is to get the Public so wore out and tired of this that they will gladly accept any solution offered. Sooner or later, Representatives for BLM and ANTIFA, along with the other splinter movements will approach the Powers That Be, who are working hand and glove with them behind the scenes anyway, and tell them, put our people in your Police Departments and Court Systems and we will stop the violence. The people will gleefully accept. The muslims and others have used this method quite successfully World Wide.
Oregon is a red state except for Portland.
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