Portland Mayor Moving Due to Rioters
From the story: Wheeler announced the move in an email to other residents of the 16- floor high-rise on Tuesday, OregonLive.com reported, one day after a crowd of over 200 people gathered outside the building to demand his resignation, leaving fires and broken windows in their wake. Rioters graffitied and damaged the building and sidewalk and threw a burning bundle of newspapers into retail space on the building’s first floor, leading to the arrest of 19 people (National Review). From Rich Lowry: Everything is OK in Portland, despite all these exaggerations about unruly protesters and rioters And…the mayor is moving somewhere TBD to avoid the unruly protesters and rioters (Twitter). Yet another Portland rioter released went on to commit murder (Post Millennial). Because of this and others like it, police departments are disregarding the Governor’s call for them to help Portland. From Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts: “Increasing law enforcement resources in Portland will not solve the nightly violence and now, murder. The only way to make Portland safe again, is to support a policy that holds offenders accountable for their destruction and violence” (Police Tribune). The mayor of St. Louis, a Democrat, is now calling for more police funding (Fox News). She, too, had to relocate after protests at her home (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).