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Portland, Oregon, businesses and residents may be at the mercy of rioters and looters, but it’s not because their police don’t want to do anything.
It’s that they can’t.
According to KOIN-TV , the Portland Police Bureau told residents of the city’s downtown Pearl District that their hands were tied during a riot this past week that caused a half-million dollars worth of damage. The culprit? Democrats in the state legislature who limited their ability to use crowd dispersal tactics.
In a media release , the PPB said “around 100 anarchists caused substantial damage to businesses and government buildings in downtown Portland Tuesday night.
“Investigations into the criminal behavior are underway. No arrests have been made yet. At this point the damage is believed to be in excess of $500,000, and reports are still being compiled,” the media release read. “There were 35 separate locations that were targeted, including banks, retail stores, coffee shops, and government buildings.” Portland Police eventually gave verbal dispersal orders to the antifa at the end of their riot last night. pic.twitter.com/xEvjT9ZmqR — Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 13, 2021 While dispersal orders were given, there was no way to actually effect a dispersal. Why? It comes back to House Bill 2928, a piece of state legislation that prohibits police from using pepper spray , rubber bullets and other similar tools unless the use of deadly physical force would otherwise be justified, according to The Post Millennial .
That’s why KOIN saw police officers in their cars on Tuesday as the riot raged on.
“The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with HB 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd control environment,” Lt. Jake Jensen told the Pearl District Neighborhood Association during a meeting on Thursday night, two nights after the destruction.
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“That’s the way our legislature has said we need to operate in a crowd control environment. So that’s the way we are going to operate in a crowd control environment.
“The fact of the matter is without being able to use pepper spray, without being able to use our […]
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