Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars

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Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:18 pm (Last edited: Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:39 pm)

Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars
Washington Times, Aug 22, 2020

Heeding the advice of critics, Portland police say they repeatedly tried to deescalate with protesters Friday night. It didn�t work.

As many as 200 demonstrators rampaged near a police station in the Oregon city, pelting a protective line of unoccupied police vehicles with golf balls, softball-sized rocks, metal railroad spikes, paint-filled plastic eggs and balloons filled with feces.

A torn-up street sign was also used to smash cars, with tires slashed and windows broken, police said.

Officers said they didn�t intervene at that point because it was only property, and they figured allowing the rampaging to run its course might deescalate the situation.

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#2 | RE: Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars datum

Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:19 pm (Last edited: Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:20 pm)

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Officers said they didn�t intervene at that point because it was only property, and they figured allowing the rampaging to run its course might deescalate the situation.

Really? After three months of continuous rioting, THIS was your plan?

And when the hell did destroying "only property" become legal?

When is this crap going to end/

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#3 | RE: Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars datum

Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:23 pm

Quote: Right_in_Virginia wrote in post #2
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Officers said they didn�t intervene at that point because it was only property, and they figured allowing the rampaging to run its course might deescalate the situation.

Really? After three months of continuous rioting, THIS was your plan?

And when the hell did destroying "only property" become legal?

When is this crap going to end/

Pure idiocy......

�We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.� ― George Orwell

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#4 | RE: Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars datum

Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:40 pm (Last edited: Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:41 pm)

Who collects feces? And then puts the feces in balloons?

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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#5 | RE: Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars datum

Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:38 pm

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #4
Who collects feces? And then puts the feces in balloons?

Somebody like this

My own answer is no. Guidance is fine. Voluntary self-isolation is fine, and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable. Most of them will do it by choice. But coercion is not fine. There is no moral or principled justification for it. Lord Sumpton

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#6 | RE: Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars datum

Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:39 pm

Quote: EdJames wrote in post #3
Quote: Right_in_Virginia wrote in post #2
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Officers said they didn�t intervene at that point because it was only property, and they figured allowing the rampaging to run its course might deescalate the situation.

Really? After three months of continuous rioting, THIS was your plan?

And when the hell did destroying "only property" become legal?

When is this crap going to end/

Pure idiocy......

Portland policing is the new idiotic phrase in the nation.

My own answer is no. Guidance is fine. Voluntary self-isolation is fine, and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable. Most of them will do it by choice. But coercion is not fine. There is no moral or principled justification for it. Lord Sumpton

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