A smart police force keeps track of groups coming into town to hold rallies or protests. I am sure that any time the Tea Party or Antifa holds a rally in a city, the police are aware of the gathering and keep close tabs on it. That is their job. However, some of the residents of Portland, Oregon, seem to be unaware of the procedures involved in policing rallies.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about some recent events in Portland.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Last week a Portland police lieutenant named\u00a0Jeff Niiya was accused of colluding with right-wing protest group Patriot Prayer after a string of his texts were released to the public. Lt. Niiya\u2019s job is to coordinate with protest groups coming to the city and the texts show him doing just that, i.e. chatting with Patriot Prayer\u2019s Joey Gibson about the group\u2019s intentions and planned movements. As I noted last week<\/a>, Lt. Niiya has previously been in close contact with a member of Antifa who became an outcast when other members of the group learned she\u2019d be talking with police.<\/strong><\/p>\n …Despite the fact that it was the Mayor\u2019s own office requesting the information Lt. Niiya was gathering on Patriot Prayer, the investigation prompted by Niiya\u2019s texts remains ongoing. As part of that process, Police Chief Outlaw scheduled a listening session to hear the community\u2019s concerns Thursday night. Reporter Andy Ngo, who attended the meeting, says it quickly became a \u201csh*tshow\u201d and a \u201ccircus of identity politics and hysteria.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Some attendees at the listening session called for the Portland police to be disbanded. This sort of foolishness in Portland is not all that unusual.<\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n It\u2019s not hard to imagine why Antifa anarchists like the idea of a city without a police force. That\u2019s pretty much what they got last August when Mayor Ted Wheeler allowed an Occupy ICE camp full of vile extremists<\/a> to grow and fester. Protestesters became so violent that ICE officers called 911 for help but Mayor Wheeler ordered the police not to respond<\/a>. When the same mob turned on a woman running a food cart and burned it down, the police never responded<\/a>. In the end, it was Police Chief Danielle Outlaw who demanded the Mayor allow her to clear out the camp. Naturally, the protesters left behind loads of garbage<\/a> for the city to clean up.<\/strong><\/p>\n At this point, Chief Outlaw seems to be one of the few city officials with any sense. Hopefully, she won\u2019t buckle under the pressure from extremists to condemn Lt. Niiya.<\/strong><\/p>\n This would be comical if it were not so serious.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A smart police force keeps track of groups coming into town to hold rallies or protests. I am sure that any time the Tea Party or Antifa holds a rally in a city, the police are aware of the gathering … Continue reading