Still the oddest head and neck combo.
Posted on 07/30/2018 11:23:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
ICE officers sent a cease-and-desist letter Monday to the mayor in Portland, Oregon, demanding he apologize for ordering city police to stand down as protesters ravaged the immigration agency’s headquarters and menaced its employees.
Agency employees say they were harassed, followed and had their personal vehicles damaged when protesters tried to block them from leaving. They say Portland police refused to respond, under orders from Mayor Ted Wheeler, who said he backed the protesters over the feds.
With police on the sidelines the Occupy ICE protesters shut down U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s building on Macadam Avenue for a week in June and manned an encampment to continue harassing employees for more than a month.
“When the mayor gave the order that police would not support ICE employees trapped in the facility, he turned the lives of our employees over to an angry mob,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, which had its lawyer send the cease-and-desist letter. “The mayor stated publicly that he supported the protests, which were supposed to be about protecting immigrant families, but what about the mom’s and dad’s that we had working in that building? What about their kids? These are questions that we’ll be expecting the mayor and city of Portland to be answering in the days to come.”
Portland’s protests were the most violent of a series of nationwide outbursts against ICE, fueled by anger at President Trump’s get-tough border policies.
The situation quickly spiraled out of hand, growing from a small group of protests into a massive “occupy” encampment that shut down ICE’s rented building from June 20 through June 28, when federal police finally gathered enough manpower to retake control. The encampment continued for weeks afterward.
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Still the oddest head and neck combo.
Or any other Democrat city.
Antifa led mob clashing against ICE.
Sanctioned by the mayor and the chief of police in advance.
Stood down and let it happen.
Domestic Enemies.
“Admiral Josh Painter : This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
It might be time to get out the scuba gear and retrieve my weapons from the lake.
How about if the government doesn’t have enough law-enforcement to do the job, send in the National Guard? Arrest the mayor and police chief, arrest and jail protestors for FEDERAL crimes.
Tarring and feathering is unconstitutional. But he ought to be arrested and prosecuted. As for tarring and feathering? We can dream.
Hate America first collective and their evil criminal accomplices.
I hope we’re not waiting on him!
This reminds me police in San Jose watching and doing nothing while Trump supporters were bloodied by a mob. Court recently let a suit go forward against San Jose, maybe similar awaits portland
Agreed, very similar deeds by very similar leftist commies.
Time to occupy Portland City Hall!
HO Scale body with an N Scale head
You should remove the /s from your post. It is the Peoples Republic of Portlandistan.
Sounds like some sort of indictment would've been more appropriate.
F the letter! There needs to be a class action lawsuit against the city and its mayor to cover damages ...
Wheeler, you have chosen sides.
You shall reap the whirlwind.
You misspelled.
Just who would fire the police chief, the mayor?
“Give Portland a fair chance...”
You can check that box effective about the DAY this $#!+ started up there and the Mayor/Police did NOTHING, which was — what — a MONTH ago?
Escalation track is WIDE open, free and clear.
Fire at will.
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