Washington Post finally recognizes that Portland has a violence problem
By: Zachary Faria (MSN)
Look at that. They woke up.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Some in the establishment media are finally coming to the realization that Portland has a problem with homicides, riots, and vandalism. While this may be news to them, it isn't for anyone who recognized this as it was happening last year.
A report by Scott Wilson in the Washington Post details just how bad the situation in Portland has become. According to Wilson, the city is experiencing "a kind of generational hopelessness … and a return to an old-school style of gun violence reminiscent of a tit-for-tat cycle of deadly reprisals." Homicides are up, the police department is facing a shortage of officers, and "mostly white middle-class students" are vandalizing churches and black-owned businesses.
It's a good report. So good, in fact, that Wilson should forward it along to his colleagues. After all, it was Washington Post reporter Katie Shepherd who last July decried that the city had become a "right-wing boogeyman" and that the protests had been "mostly peaceful." According to Shepherd, this was simply an issue of "right-wing agitators" making the "counterdemonstrators" look bad.
Wilson's piece should also be sent along to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff, who in July asked readers to "help me find Trump's 'anarchists' in Portland." CNN sent a "reporter," Josh Campbell, to the city in August, where he reported on breakfast burritos and the view from his hotel. Apparently, violence was nowhere to be seen until just now.
Wilson's report is great, but it's not brand new knowledge: We knew all of these things already. We knew that Portland, caught up in the hysteria of the "defund the police" movement, dissolved a police unit specifically focused on gun violence. We knew the city had experienced an absurd hike in homicides: The city saw a 60% rise in homicides from 2019 to 2020, and through May, the city is on pace for a 51% increase from its 2020 numbers.
We knew at the beginning of last July that businesses had seen $4.8 million in damages due to riots and vandalism during the same conflagrations at a federal courthouse that Kristoff and Shepherd were dismissing. We knew businesses were fleeing after last year's riots, and we know that riots have continued into 2021, with business owners describing their losses. Portland saw over 100 consecutive days of riots and protests. These issues were clear to anyone who wanted to look.
Just as federal officers were "storm troopers" under President Donald Trump but were no longer a threat to democracy when Joe Biden became president, partisans can finally acknowledge that the violence that wracked Portland was actually real all along, after their election-year game of pretend. The destruction of livelihoods and the taking of lives didn't matter until "their guy" took the White House, and they should be reminded of it.
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"last July decried that the city had become a "right-wing boogeyman" and that the protests had been "mostly peaceful." According to Shepherd, this was simply an issue of "right-wing agitators" making the "counterdemonstrators" look bad."
Sounds like a hauntingly familiar "opinion" by some of our members.........LMAO
Original story here..........
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Morning Jim,
Since the report in WaPo was far better than this screed:
Anyone with half a brain knew the Post, the NY Times and most of cable news was brazenly lying about the riots. They were violent, left wing and allowed by blue state governors & mayors.
Then there is this:
Homicides are up, the police department is facing a shortage of officers, and "mostly white middle-class students" are vandalizing churches and black-owned businesses.
You may recall that all of that was denied by our very own wordsmith. Those "mostly white middle-class students" were the perpetrators. It goes without saying that they are among the indoctrinated and will go unpunished. When they graduate from their various diploma mills, they will most likely gravitate to government, where they can continue the monstrous cycle.
I have yet to come across one, who be that?
That was a lie Tess. A bad one that fooled no one.
Stay tuned I'll introduce you.
hat was a lie Tess. A bad one that fooled no one.
Notice how the progressives here happily go along with it?
Show the damn proof for a change. Just once.
And not some damn opinion piece; something with real arrest records and indictments. Till then it is the same regurgitated BS as always.
If it was really "right wing agitators" doing all this they would have been caught a long damn time ago as they are simply not that damn smart; and we all know the Democrats wouldn't hesitate to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law- and march the whole thing proudly through their slobbering servants in the media every step of the way.
I'm already watching that show and none of them speak english. C'mon Vic, show some courage ... who is this site's Conrad?
They sound like awful people. What are their names?
Right.
Can't even come up with your own catch line.
How much in royalties do you have to pay to the X-Files?
Smart move.
The city saw a 60% rise in homicides from 2019 to 2020, and through May, the city is on pace for a 51% increase from its 2020 numbers.
These deaths are entirely foreseeable consequences of the left's embrace of the defund the police movement and tolerance for what was an almost daily insurrection in Portland.
Not only did the 'right' know it, they tried to scream it from the rooftops, only to be shouted down by the left as conspiracy nuts and racists as what was occurring in Portland, Minneapolis, Washington DC, New York city and other cities across the country was according to the left, "peaceful protests".
Fortunately, many people are finally coming to the reality that the 'right' was in point of fact right all along and are seeing the left for the radicals they are.