Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Portland Mayor Denies Assistance to ICE, Violates City's Equal Protection Policy

During aggressive protests by criminal Occupy Immigration and Customs Enforcement rioters at federal facilities in Oregon, Portland's Mayor implemented dangerously restrictive police procedures that ordered officers to i.gnore calls for help from federal law enforcement personnel under attack.

According to records obtained by Judicial Watch, PPB officers were only allowed to respond to life-threatening attacks and 911 calls made by ICE agents and FPS officers.

Under his direction, tensions among protestors and federal law enforcement officers started in mid-June with a camp at ICE facilities in the downtown area and ended in late July with piles of trash in the street.

ICE Council leadership reported hard-left Antifa members were an active contingent among protestors who besieged the federal immigration processing offices, damaged property and injured officers.

Day's refusal in the highly redacted document was clear: "At this time I am denying your request for additional resources from PPB." Officers were directed "Not to proactively patrol the area of the demonstration" and to "Only respond to calls at the demonstration site that have an immediate life safety concern." On June 21, the mayor's direction was "For PPB to not get involved unless lives are in danger." ICE agents on the ground reported these were the daily orders given at briefings to rank-and-file PPB personnel.

In contrast to the stated commitment of City government to provide equal and effective protection, the owner of the ICE processing building, Stuart Lindquist, was singled out among taxpayers.

Portland Police documents confirmed, "If Stuart Linquist [sic] or any other Linquist [sic] calls for police assistance that doesn't fit the 'life safety concern' criteria, please refer him or her to the Mayor." Mr. Lindquist told Judicial Watch, "It's quite an issue and of course we were without service for a month and a half. It's something. This is a liberal town but even so." Judicial Watch filed two other public records requests with the PBB to determine if Wheeler's denial of assistance violates federal contractual or Memorandum Of Understanding obligations.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/08/portland-mayor-denies-assistance-to-ice-violates-citys-equal-protection-policy/

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