Portland's police riot team resigns

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All 50 of the Portland Police Bureau’s highly trained rapid response unit officers resigned this week after the recent indictment of Officer Corey Budworth for allegedly assaulting a photographer during an overnight riot last summer.

"Unfortunately, this decorated public servant has been caught in the crossfire of agenda-driven city leaders and a politicized criminal justice system," the Portland Police Association said Tuesday after a Multnomah County grand jury charged Budworth with one count of fourth-degree assault related to the Aug. 18, 2020, incident.

So here is the deal as I read it. An "activist/reporter" was being combative during a riot, and during the melee', she got bonked in the head by a baton. Cop says it was accidental, but who really cares in that situation? Those who didn't leave when the riot was declared were there for a fight. Don't cry when you get what you ask for. (imho)

But because the activist (Karen) made it an issue, the entire department decided that since the city doesn't have their back, why bother. And they left. So now Portland of all places doesn't have a "Riot team". If anywhere on Earth needed one, it's Portland. So now, with all the defunding, Portland should be easily recognized from the air by the cloud of black smoke. I heard it was once a nice place. Not so much anymore.

a reply to: network dude

I fear Portland is just the beginning of the burn. Food water
and weapons.

Maybe the first of many?

Don't like it.

But would anyone here want their son or daughter to be serving in the line of fire with no cover from command?

time to move out quickly

as a Vietnam Veteran I can only tell those with a blank of idiocracity it is time to jam quicklyl

I have relatives that moved out last summer because they could see the writing on the wall. And they are libbys.

a reply to: network dude

This is how the Left destroys America.

One city at a time.

Do you want to play a game...?

What cities were wrecked under the last Democrat President?

originally posted by: Nunyabizisit

Maybe the first of many?

Don't like it.

But would anyone here want their son or daughter to be serving in the line of fire with no cover from command?

No way and something else that should also be addressed
often but I have yet to see. In regards to the relationship
between an officer and his wife. Cops already see their
marriages suffer because his job is high stress life on the
line everyday he leaves for work. Now we have people in
power who don't give a crap about that. Or how much more
likely it is now for any officer to lose his life.

They don't give a crap. The cops need to arrest um all.
From that ugly thing in Chicago to Newsom. From Biden
and Kamala to Pelosi and Nadler. Schumer too. Stick a
bag of dope on um if you have to just get um the hell
out.

originally posted by: Randyvine2

Stick a bag of dope on um if you have to just get um the hell out.

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but NO, that's not something to joke about.

That bullshyt really happens, and there;s nothing funny about it.

originally posted by: BrokenCircles

originally posted by: Randyvine2

Stick a bag of dope on um if you have to just get um the hell out.

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but NO, that's not something to joke about.

That bullshyt really happens, and there;s nothing funny about it.

Agreed, to a point.
But in the case of VP Harris, it would be fitting.
As a former prosecutor, she watched the same thing happen to many lower class citizens and didn't care about it.

a reply to: BrokenCircles

Ya well I'm serious tinker bell and I'd be laughing if
they pulled it off. Now how about that?

a reply to: network dude

Ohh you mean this:



Yeah total bs...reporters shouldn't be getting themselves into harms way.

Just like that Andy Ngo guy who got a cement-laced milkshake to his head...own damn fault.

oh wait...no...Andy was freedom of press and all that outrage.

pffffff

a reply to: verylargemicron

Was Andy Ngo hit by police who told him to leave under lawful order? No?

Then sit down.

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

Well technically she was sitting down when she was hit with a baton.

Good to see these hooligans have left their jobs...

a reply to: verylargemicron
A reporter should be recording and reporting, not activesting and rioting. Did you not watch the video you posted?

originally posted by: verylargemicron
a reply to: network dude

Ohh you mean this:

Yeah total bs...reporters shouldn't be getting themselves into harms way.

Just like that Andy Ngo guy who got a cement-laced milkshake to his head...own damn fault.

oh wait...no...Andy was freedom of press and all that outrage.

pffffff

Let's do a quick exercise. If the Police, who are dressed in RIOT gear, are out in the street (the same street that has erupted in violence against cops for over a year every damn night), and they tell you to leave, but you don't, who is the idiot when fist start flying?

But don't worry your pretty little head about it, you got exactly what you wanted. A city without cops. At least the mean one's left. Go celebrate with some Molotov cocktails and a peaceful murder.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

Please get me a screen capture of that...I couldn't find it.

a reply to: network dude

I'm seriously laughing my ass off at these morons. I read in another article that they cut the police budget by 27 million to fund "community groups to combat violence ' and now their riot control quits while they were already 120 officers short. Sure, those 50 will go back on the street, but no one is going to step up to replace them, knowing that city leaders will throw them under the bus.

Guess next time a riot breaks out they can send in those community groups.

a reply to: DAVID64

this is a "win" for the DERPS. I hope they enjoy it. I've been advocating for this for a while now. You want "no mo police", well, here is what "no mo police" looks like. happy now?

a reply to: verylargemicron

Was she sitting down right before that? Or was she standing belly to belly in front of a wall of police breaking up a riot? Because she was certainly not lounging in a recliner unaware if what was happening. Her sitting was a direct result of her confrontation with a riot team.

"Hit in the head" doesnt describe what happened at the end either. The baton was not swung...it was pushed.

a reply to: verylargemicron

That's "graphic content" that requires a warning at the start? Holy hell we've become more pussified than I thought. I remember being a kid and watching the nightly local news and they didn't even hesitate to show close ups of pools of blood and the occasional corpse and that was only the mid 80s. Relevant.