Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty apologized for claiming police are sending 'saboteurs' to infiltrate anti-racism demonstrations to start fires that have lit up the city on many of the 56 consecutive nights of protests.
Protesters dropped shrapnel at Wheeler's feet, demanding federal agents be kicked out of Portland and the local police department be defunded.
'I believe Portland Police [Bureau] is lying about the damage-or starting the fires themselves-so that they have justification for attacking community members.
Her comments targeting Portland police for local fires angered the Portland Police Association and Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.
The Portland Fire & Rescue Bureau, where Hardesty sits as fire commissioner, recorded 144 fires attributed to civil unrest between May 29 and July 2.Fires began sparking across the United States after the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
If you can't control the police, give me the Portland Police Bureau,' she wrote with a full statement attached.
Mayor Ted Wheeler scrambled to put goggles on after the noxious gas was used on crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrating against police brutality for the 56th night following the death of George Floyd who took his last breath under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on May 25.Wheeler told The New York Times: 'I'm not going to lie - it stings; it's hard to breathe.
Protesters dropped shrapnel at Wheeler's feet, demanding federal agents be kicked out of Portland and the local police department be defunded.
'I believe Portland Police [Bureau] is lying about the damage-or starting the fires themselves-so that they have justification for attacking community members.
Her comments targeting Portland police for local fires angered the Portland Police Association and Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.
The Portland Fire & Rescue Bureau, where Hardesty sits as fire commissioner, recorded 144 fires attributed to civil unrest between May 29 and July 2.Fires began sparking across the United States after the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
If you can't control the police, give me the Portland Police Bureau,' she wrote with a full statement attached.
Mayor Ted Wheeler scrambled to put goggles on after the noxious gas was used on crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrating against police brutality for the 56th night following the death of George Floyd who took his last breath under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on May 25.Wheeler told The New York Times: 'I'm not going to lie - it stings; it's hard to breathe.
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