{"id":893699,"date":"2021-10-18T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=893699"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:44:12","slug":"mob-smashes-through-downtown-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mob-smashes-through-downtown-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Smashes Through Downtown Portland"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fmob-smashes-through-downtown-portland%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=893699&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 readability=\"27.711340206186\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Police inaction leads to fears of &#8216;lawless city&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1228165736-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police Respond To Continued Protests In Portland\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1228165736-e1634567975487.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1228165736-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1228165736-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1228165736-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA rioter in Portland in 2020 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 October 18, 2021 11:41 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"74.905289672544\">\n<p>A mob last week rampaged through downtown Portland, Ore. Police were unable to control the crowd, however, because of restrictive measures passed this year by the Democratic state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd of 100 people on Oct. 12 smashed windows and graffitied buildings, causing more than $500,000 in damage, police said. The violence followed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/portland-memorial-vandalism\/283-e5171a7b-be9a-49b5-902a-34da286bb966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorial<\/a> to a Portland anarchist who in 2019 was hit by a car and killed.<\/p>\n<p>Police made no arrests at the protest and did not directly intervene. Officers said their hands were tied by a state bill, passed in June, that in most situations restricts police from using crowd-control devices such as pepper spray and rubber bullets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with House Bill 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd-control environment,&#8221; police lieutenant Jake Jensen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/protests\/pearl-district-residents-to-ppb-are-we-a-lawless-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon House minority leader Christine Drazan (R.) told the Associated Press that the bill allows police to use those non-lethal tools against violent crowds but that &#8220;activist attorneys&#8221; have misinterpreted the legislation to keep police from intervening at all.<\/p>\n<p>Portland police sergeant Kevin Allen told the AP that &#8220;until we have some clarity on the bill we have to follow the most restrictive interpretation of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Portland expressed concern that the new police protocols make Portland a &#8220;lawless&#8221; city when it comes to confronting riots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does that mean we are now like a lawless city, anyone can come in and just bash around and do all the damage they want without any repercussions whatsoever?&#8221; one resident asked Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen replied that the city is not lawless because perpetrators can still face consequences in a followup investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Portland last year saw some of the most destructive and sustained rioting in the country amid the nationwide protests following George Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Police inaction leads to fears of &#8216;lawless city&#8217;  A rioter in Portland in 2020 \/ Getty Images  Philip Caldwell \u2022 October 18, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893699","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}