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Thread #168264   Message #4066720
Posted By: leeneia
31-Jul-20 - 11:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Police violence in Portland Oregon
Subject: RE: BS: Police violence in Portland Oregon
I am sure that most of the demonstrators are good people. However, my newspaper had a photograph taken late at night in Portland, showing "demonstrators" pushing at the temporary fence around the courthouse. I studied it.

Unlike most demonstrators, these were all male. Two of them wore heavy work gloves and thick, dark clothes. Who wears heavy gloves in July? I have no doubt that if they had broken through, they would commit mayhem in the courthouse.

Whose cases would they be interfering with? Just based on my general reading, these are examples of federal cases: embezzlement, financial fraud, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, racketeering (gangsters), terrorism such as bombing. No intelligent, decent person would want to see crimes like this go unpunished.