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Portland's Ted Wheeler, mayor of the certifiably craziest and meanest city in America, won't admit that he quietly encourages mob rule in his city. In Portland, the police stand down as thugs run amok.
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Mayor Wheeler, a Democrat, tacitly approves of the protests that regularly agitate Portland. When the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was "occupied" this summer, Portland police declined to support immigration enforcement officers unless they were in physical danger.
Wheeler, who also holds the title of police commissioner, doesn't really mind videotape of honest citizens being harassed, chased, and tormented by Democratic Party foot soldiers. He promises an "investigation" but fails to promise arrests. You and I know there is not much to investigate unless the mayor officially appointed the persecutors a sort of posse comitatus status. At the very least, they were impersonating police officers and disturbing the peace. If the mayor didn't order the police to stand down and the police commissioner didn't order the police to stand down, who did? Maybe it was the Portland dog-catching commissioner. Personally, I think Wheeler is in way over his head.
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