{"id":571733,"date":"2021-06-23T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571733"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:07:16","slug":"watch-portland-police-union-chief-slams-city-officials-claims-they-encouraged-and-enabled-antifa-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-portland-police-union-chief-slams-city-officials-claims-they-encouraged-and-enabled-antifa-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Portland Police Union Chief Slams City Officials, Claims They \u2018Encouraged\u2019 And \u2018Enabled\u2019 Antifa 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\">30<\/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%2Fwatch-portland-police-union-chief-slams-city-officials-claims-they-encouraged-and-enabled-antifa-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=571733&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\/06\/DP-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Portland Police Association\u2019s executive director, Daryl Turner blasted Portland city officials in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, accusing the mayor and others of standing by while \u201canti-fascist\u201d demonstrators set fire to buildings, threatened police officers, and engaged in protests that often turned into violent riots over the course of a year.<\/p>\n<p>Turner told the network that Portland officials \u201cencouraged and enabled some of the violence\u201d that led to a record number of police resignations and retirements, and that an incident, like the one that happened earlier this week, where <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-portland-police-riot-squad-resigns-votes-to-disband-following-indictment-of-officer-budworth\">the city\u2019s full Rapid Response Team resigned<\/a> following the indictment of a fellow Portland police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he believed Portland officials had police officers\u2019 backs, Turner responded, \u201cno, they do not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All 50 members of the Portland police riot squad resign\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J4KIB5pDokg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Rapid Response Team\u2019s decision to resign en masse, he added, was \u201cnot just about our officer being indicted\u201d but was the result of months of \u201cunprecedented sustained violence in the city of Portland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Turner again blasted city officials over the riots he said \u201cconsistently ensued, night-after-night, under the cover of darkness\u201d and for their lack of appreciation for law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he said, the officials\u2019 \u201cpolitical venom demonized these public servants for doing exactly what they were tasked to do\u2014restore peace and order in our City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put themselves in harm\u2019s way to restore order and peace when destruction and mayhem struck. Rather than acknowledging and thanking those officers, rather than prioritizing public safety and peace, politicians criticized the RRT, further fueling the fires in our City,\u201d Turner added.<\/p>\n<p>Portland\u2019s officers, he said, \u201cdid not volunteer to have Molotov cocktails, fireworks, explosives, rocks, bottles, urine, feces, and other dangerous objects thrown at them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is our dedicated RRT members have had enough and were left with no other alternative but to resign from their voluntary positions. If the Rapid Response Team members\u2019 resignation has highlighted anything, it\u2019s that the priorities of our elected officials have failed,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-riot-squad-resigns-defund-police-commissioner\">Fox News reported, separately<\/a>, that Turner laid the blame for Portland\u2019s rampant violence at the feet of the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement and Portland city legislators who supported protesters\u2019 calls to disband the city\u2019s law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese rioters, bent on destruction, hijacked social and racial justice movements,\u201d Turner said, referring to city council member Jo Ann Hardesty who \u201cspearheaded the local defund police movement.\u201d \u201cThese rioters burned and looted our city. Yet local politicians supported them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of recognizing the value of public safety, peace, and order, Commissioner Hardesty has used the occasion to promote a self-serving, anti-police, anti-public safety agenda,\u201d Turner said. \u201cInstead of defending our communities and the business owners whose livelihoods were destroyed by the riots, she continues to endorse violence. Plain and simple: Portlanders want our city back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portland\u2019s Mayor Ted Wheeler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-portland-mayor-done-with-anarchist-mob-begs-public-to-help-unmask-rioters\">recently pledged to crack down<\/a> on violent protests \u2014 nearly a year after they began \u2014 asking for help from Portland residents in identifying black-clad \u201canti-Fascists.\u201d<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/race-and-ethnicity-police-violence-oregon-portland-a4b84a60d51755a8330ef102098aba63\">The 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.<\/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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Police Association\u2019s executive director, Daryl Turner blasted Portland city officials in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, accusing the mayor and others of standing by while \u201canti-fascist\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281105,"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\/06\/DP-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Portland Police Union Chief Slams City Officials, Claims They \u2018Encouraged\u2019 And \u2018Enabled\u2019 Antifa Violence","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DP-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Portland Police Union Chief Slams City Officials, Claims They \u2018Encouraged\u2019 And \u2018Enabled\u2019 Antifa Violence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571733","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=571733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}