{"id":247779,"date":"2021-03-18T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247779"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:15:58","slug":"portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-finally-condemns-anarchist-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-finally-condemns-anarchist-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Finally Condemns \u2018Anarchist\u2019 Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fportland-mayor-ted-wheeler-finally-condemns-anarchist-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247779&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1855.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler joined a chorus of officials earlier this week in condemning recent \u201canarchist\u201d violence in the city\u2019s downtown area and demanded an end to protests and violence that have rocked the city since May of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the admission and demands follow an uptick of violence centered around a federal courthouse and nearby Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center \u2014 some of the same buildings targeted last summer when Wheeler and others expressed solidarity with protesters marching downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly nine months protesters have called for police reform and an end to systemic racism in Portland, which has become a key city in the country\u2019s racial reckoning,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/race-and-ethnicity-police-violence-oregon-portland-a4b84a60d51755a8330ef102098aba63\">Associated Press reported<\/a>. \u201cWhile officials say many events have been peaceful, there continues to be small groups smashing windows of businesses, threatening community members, and assaulting police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community is sick and tired of people engaging in criminal destruction and violence and doing it under the guise of some noble cause,\u201d Wheeler said, forcefully, during the conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who work here support the voices of racial and social justice and will not be intimidated from doing our jobs by the ugly graffiti or broken windows,\u201d said Scott Erik Asphaug, U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon added, per the AP. \u201cWe do not confuse the voices of the many with the shouts of the few who hope to hold our city hostage by petty crime and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police officials also joined the group demanding an end to the violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear that this was not a protest group,\u201d Portland\u2019s assistant police chief added. \u201cThis was a group of people who have come to believe that they are entitled to damage other people\u2019s property, threaten community members, and assault police officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other city officials finally noted that the violence has been committed by \u201canarchists,\u201d though they stopped short of mentioning the term \u201cAntifa,\u201d which refers to self-described \u201canti-Fascist\u201d elements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe misguided and miseducated anarchists reject civility and instead intentionally create mayhem through criminally destructive behavior tearing up our city. This must stop,\u201d a former state senator \u2014 the first black woman elected to the post \u2014 demanded. \u201cI say to them today, \u2018Stop you are not helping, you are hurting Black people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what prompted the change in messaging, though it does seem that a recent, second wave of riots pressed Wheeler and others forward, especially given that it\u2019s clear, now, that Portland\u2019s demonstrations did not come to an end with former President Donald Trump\u2019s term. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/portland-courthouse-now-a-fortress-again-after-second-wave-of-riots\">Daily Wire reported previously<\/a>, the downtown courthouse, which Trump protected with the aid of special agents from Customs and Border Protection, is again a \u201cfortress\u201d after being attacked by protesters angry with the Biden administration for not ending illegal immigration deportations.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-agents-defend-ice-facility-in-portland-fire-tear-gas-at-demonstrators\">forced to intervene back in January<\/a> when protesters marked President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration with a destructive riot outside of the city\u2019s Democratic Party Headquarters, and 100 people were detained last week after a march marking the anniversary of Breonna Taylor\u2019s death descended into chaos.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler joined a chorus of officials earlier this week in condemning recent \u201canarchist\u201d violence in the city\u2019s downtown area and demanded an end to protests and violence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310758,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1855.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Finally Condemns \u2018Anarchist\u2019 Violence","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1855.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Finally Condemns \u2018Anarchist\u2019 Violence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}