WFB: Portland mayor Ted Wheeler (D.)—who has yet to provide his police department with consistent directives to quell the riots, arson, and looting that have plagued his city for months—told Oregon Public Radio his strategy was to let the violence “burn itself out.”
Wheeler told OPR reporter Rebecca Ellis last week that he expects daily protests in the city—which began in May following the death of George Floyd—to last for some time. He said he expects nightly violence that followed the protests “will ultimately burn itself out.”
The mayor, who is in charge of Portland’s police force, told OPR the department will adjust to the situation on its own.
“They’ve tried everything from not showing up to preemptively dispersing crowds, and some of those strategies, in my opinion, have worked well. Others have not worked well,” Wheeler said. “My expectation is the police bureau will evolve, and as they see a need for change, they’ll change.” more
WTF?!?!?
There are no real protests in Portland any longer just riots, rioters and rioting.
The democrap answer to portland and the United States if we let it.
“We’ve tried everything.”
Have they tried shooting rioters and looters? I don’t believe they’d need to shoot anyone, the threat alone would make this end… ok, maybe a shoot a few so they know the police mean business.
His grandfather and drunken sot father left him millions of dollars to use at his disposal and this is the result. No wonder his wife dumped him. She got tired of being his beard… And she got a hefty alimony check.
G’Bye Portland. When the last building on the last street goes up in flames the mayors “burnout” will be complete and you can all go back to your nice safe ash piles.
IOW, when there’s nothing left to burn maybe things will settle down.
EDIT: John above beat me to it. I think they call that getting Ninja’d. 🙂
I wonder how something like an M60 (only one I’m familiar with, newer ones available) loaded with rubber bullets and fired at leg and groin height would work?
Have they tried that yet?
I agree with John, it will burn itself out when everything is burned. Demonrats are so stupid, what a choice of words.
In positive related news 4 female callers in to C-Span post RNC day 2 said they were leaving the Demonrat party and voting for PDJT because of law and order.
The Lord God Almighty works in mysterious ways. 8 years of the half black Jesus and now with the violence and Marxists on full display the Demonrats are commuting political suicide by Nov.
Hey Teddy
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZHEbdA2Q-/?igshid=d5mw8eq97a6
I agree with John, it will burn itself out when everything is burned. Demonrats are so stupid, what a choice of words.
In positive related news 4 female callers in to C-Span post RNC day 2 said they were leaving the Demonrat party and voting for PDJT because of law and order.
The Lord God Almighty works in mysterious ways. 8 years of the half black Jesus and now with the violence and Marxists on full display the Demonrats are commuting political suicide by Nov.
As usual women will decide this election, the release of murdering demons upon this earth may just worry them enough to create a red tsunami even the Demonrat Lawyer Legions cannot fight.
As we say in MO, God willing and the creek don’t rise…
In summary, I don’t want to look bad and actually I’m afraid of the results if I enforce the rule of law on rioters. I’m hopeful it will all just go away so I can go back to sleep.
And this guy is still getting a paycheck? Might as well defund him.
DEAR PORTLAND VOTERS: Let the mayor’s term “Burn Out”.
Better yet, recall the ass.
Somebody got Wheeler on the horn.
Apparently he didn’t get the MSM emergency memorandum/dog whistle.
“The impact is so serious that even CNN anchor Don Lemon is worried about Biden’s chances, leading him to say “the rioting has to stop.”
That’s the left wing media in a nutshell. They supported the “protestors” until it started to backfire on their candidate. Now it has to stop or Trump will be re-elected.
Not that it has to stop because it’s destructive and leading to deaths. Only because it’s bad for their candidate.”
What an asshole that mayor is. The rioters are animals to begin with. Now they’ve been trained for months on end that they can burn, loot, assault, and pillage with relative impunity. It’s now a lifestyle for them. Most of them are worthless morons and perverts, and this is the most power they’ve ever had in their shitty, miserable existences.
They’re not going to “burn out” on this. It’s the most fun they’ve had. They only way they’re going to stop now is if they are killed, disabled, or put in prison for a very long time.
Congrats democrat motherfuckers… You built that.
“We’ll just Hang around until the Lynching stops”
…Democrat Mayor sure is an easy job…no rules, no responsibilities, no laws, and absolutely NO performance standards of ANY kind, just a GREAT paycheck and an entire Police Department at your disposal to protect YOUR neighborhood any time the monsters you created get out of hand…
…and no bad press, either, but they WILL cover you any time you wanna lie about the President, PLUS you can get free money from Red states to rebuild your wreckage, fund your programs to attract the crazy and the illegal foreigners, and build your stupid and useless mass transit systems and green projects, all with NO auditing or oversight whatsoever, so whatever relatives you want to put in charge of these projects, go ahead, I’m sure they can set a little aside for you in gratitude, after all, it’s only tax money..
“Portland Mayor: Let Rioting ‘Burn Itself Out’”
Yes.
At HIS house. 😡
Yo Ted! Any Dumb Asshole can sit on his hands and do nothing. That takes no talent at all! If you think that this is going to “burn itself out you are even dumber than we thought! Meanwhile the city burns and the people suffer while you wait for yer testicles to descend! No wonder it’s the party of the Jackass!!!
Rioters will continue to create chaos until Sorus runs out of money. That may take a while.
Is the city going to make good on the costs to the victims of the riots. Most insurance policies do not cover civil unrest.
This is the death knell for Portland. There is no concern for the safety of the officers or citizens. Who would want to move there, or stay there? What company in their right mind would locate there?
These rioters are enjoying themselves too much to quit.
Leftists want to destroy our country and seize what is left, then lord over us.
We are in a civil war and the shooting HAS begun.
Good strategy. Eventually you run out of combustible things.🤔
Good call there Theodork. Let Portland burn. Start with the MSM outlets. Portland’s liberals are of the very slow to learn persuasion. Wheeler would not have been elected if not for the financial support of Portland’s wealthy liberals who’d reelect him today. Unfortunately, his main opposition to reelection is much worse. She’s going to make Wheeler look good.
The idiot needs to be removed by office. Preferably by some sort of recall, but if not….
Mayor Ted the Turd has no brain. It’s not going to burn itself out. Antifa will keep burning and destroying. When Portland is a wasteland, they will move on and burn another city to the ground. Their Marxist leaders think this is the perfect time to push the communist revolution. To them, no other time in US history has had brighter prospects for a revolution: we are in a new revolutionary period of history.
It makes no difference what Lemon says. Antifa is so far left it considers him a mouthpiece for the capitalist “ruling class”.
This fool would be more interested in stopping the riots if his home, and neighborhood were in flames. Or maybe not, he has proved he is a special level of stupid.
Anyone notice Kenosha was quiet Wednesday night? A few rioters shot goes a long way to end their merriment.