Posted on 08/07/2020 12:45:41 AM PDT by Libloather
Portland police chief Chuck Lovell slammed “incomprehensible” violence on Thursday after rioters moved to target city police precincts.
**SNIP**
“Last night’s violence by rioters at our east precinct was incomprehensible,” Lovell said at a virtual press conference on Thursday. “We have people who are intentionally planning to go out and attack precincts, trap people inside, [and] set fires to these buildings.”
Lovell continued, “We have nightly violence where officers get mortars thrown at them, rocks, commercial grade fireworks, and these senseless attempts to injure officers and destroy police facilities [are] reprehensible and [they] need to stop.”
Lovell said that the riots were intended to injure officers and could not be considered connected to the George Floyd protests.
A local NBC affiliate reported that rioters attempted to start a fire at Portland’s East Precinct. Additionally, a memorial to a Portland police officer who died while pursuing a suspect who shot a child was vandalized.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/portland-protests-continue-on-day-70-downtown-throughout-city-live-updates/ar-BB17CG4y?ocid=a2hs
What letting lawlessness continue earns.
Won’t stop until they return fire.
Nope. And they should have some heavy stuff with them too in case they need to fire an awful lot.
They are enemy combatants against the state and country. Nothing less.
Good to see people on the board at this hour. Fell asleep early and woke up early. I was always under the assumption however that when I was not on the board it didn’t exist :-)
Good to know I was wrong
I've got "qwerty" spelled backwards on my forehead.
That is assault with a deadly weapon on a cop. That merits a shower of bullets.
Anyone who does that is a danger to society.
l8r
ROFL!!
I do work online at very odd hours sometimes and at around 7pm last night i knew i was going down for the count.
fell asleep at desk many times in manhattan at work through the years...don’t know if i ever hit the keyboard
probably :)
The police could borrow some tactics from the military; most especially a sniper overwatch. When heads start exploding in those black hoodies, this bad behavior will stop in a hurry.
Of course, someone needs to tell the Chief they’re in a war.
An unlicensed commercial grade firework is legally the same as a stick of dynamite in the hands of antifa. Decades of prison await them if only there was equal justice. Where is ATF when they are actually needed?
Who is in authority here? The local police are under attack! At this point, someone should be pulling in the National Guard and get the problems over with.
They are using the “r” word now.
we are at war. Only one side understand stands that.
I understand it but I’m not fighting and dying in brooklyn or manhattan because i don’t care what happens to them.
If they make a move on Staten Island, they will run into a whole different breed and they should call their moms and say they won’t be home for dinner....ever.
I’m sure many southern and midwestern areas are the same way.
Send federal troops in to put down the Marxist insurrection.
Snipers. Snipers control these situations quite effectively. Take out a couple of leaders and they will permanently disperse.
Well, stop letting them do it!
I’d say Portland police chief Chuck Lovell is in the wrong job.
What is incomprehensible chief is your cowardly cops who for years sat by watching while these idiots kept attacking anyone conservative or even merely driving downtown
Hypocrite now that it is targeting his men directly
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