1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: When is the last time a major city had a 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: month long ongoing riot. Well, Portland is doing it. And 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: you want to know what's going on overnight, you go 4 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: to Andy Know's Twitter page. Uh here's one of his 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: tweets from this morning. Violent protests and lawlessness continues in Portland. 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: At the ANTIFA and BLM gathering night last night, a 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: car was surrounded and multiple shots were fired. Police stayed 8 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: away on the orders of the city. Father's no doubt 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: one of the great cities in America's descending into lawlessness, violence, 10 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: twenty three million dollars in damages and lost customers to 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: local businesses, millions of dollars in damage to federal buildings. 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: UM and the Portland Police are not happy about it. 13 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: In fact, Officer Darryl Turner joins us. Darryll is not 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: only an active duty a peace officer with the Portland 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: Police Department, he's also the president of the Portland Police Association, 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: representing all sorts of folks in law enforcement. Darryl, how 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: are you, sir? Good? Thanks? How are you good? Hey? 18 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: It's a little frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating 19 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: to you to see the beautiful city of Portlands descending 20 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: the chaos like this. Um, the mainstream media would call 21 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: them civil rights protesters, the people doing this. What's actually 22 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: happening in Portland? Well, what you have several people who 23 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: are protesting peacefully. Um, but you have a group and uh, 24 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what they call themselves, but a group 25 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: that have hijacked the message, have hijacked the uh, the 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: meaning of what's going on to protests a peaceful protests 27 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: and turned it into riots, and turned it into the 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: destruction of property, burning things, destroying business properties, destroying public 29 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: buildings as well, um, and defacing them as well as 30 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: assaulting not only peaceful protesters, but assaulting law enforcement officers. 31 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: And is this going on every single night or do 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: they take nights off? Um? There have been consistently, We're 33 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: probably somewhere around forty nights in a row, forty different 34 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: levels of different levels of riot, all the way from 35 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: you know, a few, you know, dozen people up to 36 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: a few hundred people. Well, let me quote the Portland 37 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: Police Union president, I have no confidence that the city 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: will stop the rioting and the looting and protect the 39 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: livelihood of Portlanders. That's a heck of a thing. Well, 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: right now, that's what it seems like we've reached out 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: to the elected officials uh and and and say they 42 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: need to condemn uh these actions, but not only condemn them, 43 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: they need to make sure that their measures taking that 44 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: they're not only arrested, but the prosecuted. UM. And that 45 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: seems to be uh something they don't want to do. 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, in some cases they've 47 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: also applauded some of the actions and not the violent actions, 48 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: not the not the destruction of property. But they've I 49 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: I believe in my mind that they've actually egged them 50 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: on a little bit too to go ahead and uh 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: condone what's going on here. So other than having folks 52 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: arrested and then prosecuted for what are clearly crimes often 53 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: documented on on videotape, what else does the Portland PD 54 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: need from the city council? What they need to support, 55 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: They need to support to be able to go ahead 56 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: and do the work we need to do. Um, they 57 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: need not to hear the need care of reactions of 58 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: our city council members. When we use c S gas UM, 59 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: that is a valuable tool that allows us to keep 60 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: distance and also to be able to disperse riotous crowds 61 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: in a timely manner um. And we're getting many complaints 62 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: from those rioters to terry gases. Uh is uh sadistic 63 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: and horrific, But in fact it breaks those rides up. 64 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: And that's what if it needs to be done as 65 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: it needs to be done um. In other words, if 66 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: we don't use those measures and we have to actually 67 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: contact people, we have the number one, we can't keep 68 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: our distance. And number two, it looks bad when you're 69 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: grabbing people and hitting them with sticks and such things 70 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: and using physical force when you can use something that's 71 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: less force um and more reliable and just irritating and 72 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: people wash out their eyes and they're fine. Officer Darryl 73 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: Turner as the president of the Portland Police Association. Darryl, 74 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: let's stay in touch. I mean forty two in front 75 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: of me. It says forty two nights in a row. 76 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: If this turns into a hundred and forty two nights 77 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: in a row of violence and and and fires and 78 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: the rest of it, I mean, I don't know it. 79 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: It's not sustainable. This is the problem. We're having small 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: business owners that have already been impacted by COVID ninety 81 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: who were had to close their businesses. Who are just 82 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: hanging on by a thread because of COVID nineteen, the 83 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: worst pandemic that we've seen in decades, are now suffering 84 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: because their businesses are being destroyed. Their businesses are being 85 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: vanalized and looted and hurt. Not only that, they're the 86 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: people who have usually come downtown or to other places 87 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: in the city to frequent those businesses won't come down there. 88 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: So you have hundreds of small businesses and thousands and 89 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people that are employed by those 90 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: businesses being impacted by UH. And when I say a 91 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: handful out of mean five or ten, but a handful, 92 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: as compared to the size of the city, a handful 93 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: of people who want to riot and cause casts and 94 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: have no other mission but to do that. They are 95 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: not talking about a message. They are not sending that 96 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: message that needs to be sent about social justice, racial equality. 97 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: That message is not being sent by those writers. They 98 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: are simply out there causing casts, causing damage just to 99 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: just to say that criminal acts. They're criminals. Even worse, 100 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: they went to one of the precincts. They pushed dumpsters 101 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: up against the doors and set them on fire when 102 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: they knew people were inside. That's a crime, that's an 103 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: a felony, and that's our sent in the first degree. 104 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: They did it to our justice center. They set fire 105 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: to the justice center, but hundreds of the inmates and 106 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: dozens of correctional officers inside. That's the class a felony. Um. 107 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: And all that time, our city leaders have sat back 108 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: and not uh, not only have they not condemned it, 109 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: and although the mayor has somewhat and spotty instances condemned 110 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: that violence, they have not done anything about it. Wow, 111 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: you're either on the side of good or you're not. 112 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: Officer Devil Turner of the Portland Police in Portland Police Association, 113 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: Daryl great to talk to you, sir. All right, thank you, 114 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: thank you. Can imagine you've got to stop it. You 115 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: just gotta stop it. Well, and in Portland he is 116 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: so out of its mind. These people who are committing 117 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: the acts of violence every day. They are lunatics. They 118 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: are they're quite literally anarchists and Marxists, and they're dangerous, 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: they're insane. But they put up with it because the 120 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: city council so far left, they recognized them and as 121 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: ideological brothers and voters and they don't dare crack down. 122 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: They're attempting to build an anarchist utopia and it has 123 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: you know, it's just like the idiotic chairs in Seattle. 124 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: It's degenerated into violence and in horror. But the chairs 125 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: was a lot of laying around. Um. I'm surprised that 126 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: there's the energy for forty two straight knights of rioting, 127 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: that there's enough anger or feeling that they're going to 128 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: accomplish something that that it's continuing. Well, you have the 129 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: hard core and then you have the useful idiots who 130 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: think they're rioting for civil rights, so that they're being 131 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: done by the extremists who want to tear the system down, 132 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: and you know what, Portland's letting them. Apparently. I would 133 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: have never believed that you could have riots for Ford 134 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: two straight nights in a city in the United States. 135 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: I would have never believed that was possible. The city 136 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: would get it under control, and if for some reason 137 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: they were outmatched the county wood and if they're outmatched, 138 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: the state would rightever right there, yeah, or you got 139 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: the National Garden there. I would have never thought that 140 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: for six weeks straight. So if you've never been to 141 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: Andy Nose Twitter feed. You should check it out. It's 142 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: n g O is the way it's spelled. It's easy 143 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: to find because he's a blue checkmark and he's a 144 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: journalist more or less in Portland, and he's got so 145 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: many posts of videos and pictures. But this one that 146 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: I was just looking at from yesterday, this is what 147 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: Antifa rieters have been systematically doing in the security cameras downtown. 148 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: And it's got a it's got the view from the 149 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: security camera of the Cintifa guy climbing up the pole 150 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: alongside the building to get up high enough, and then 151 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: he's got a stick and they starts smashing on the 152 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: lens until it goes black, so they black out all 153 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: the cameras so that there's less, you know, footage of them. 154 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: They're harder to catch. They're using lasers to shine into 155 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: the eyes of law enforcement. They wear shields and masks, 156 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and they just smashed stuff. 157 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: They just smash and brake stuff night after night for 158 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: six weeks and one of the prettiest cities in the world. Yeah, 159 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: Darryl would be piste off at us for saying this. 160 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: It's said sarcastically, but if you've ever wanted to be lawless, 161 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: if you've ever wanted to smash stuff or steal stuff, 162 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,239 Speaker 1: or set fires or hurt people, because you can absolutely 163 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: beat people down if you want. Go to downtown Portland 164 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: if you've because there is no law. If you've ever 165 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: wondered what it would feel like to like smash a 166 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: window out or something like that, because I've never done that, 167 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: go to Portland into it because apparently you can. Um 168 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: that makes you a terrible person in my mind, but 169 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: apparently you can get away with it. Well, let me 170 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: read that quote again, Portland Police Union President. I have 171 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: no confidence that the city will stop the rioting and 172 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: the looting and protect the livelihood of Portland's No. That 173 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 1: is a city that is completely out of control. That's 174 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: amazing in a city that is afraid or unwilling to 175 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: assert control. And listen, how do you see this ending? 176 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: You geniuses? They will, They're deluded by their ideology, they 177 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 1: have no capacity for logic. It's something I mean. I'm glad, 178 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: I'm grateful I don't have a business in downtown Portland 179 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: because I would be well, I'm either out of business 180 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: at this point or terrified that I'm gonna lose my 181 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: life savings because the city won't enforce the law. And 182 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: as a Darryl point it out, surely you consume it. 183 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: They don't want them to arrest anybody. And if they 184 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: do arrest people for being truly horrendous criminals, they won't 185 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: prosecute them in an effort. And this is you see 186 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: this in your utopian lefty cities all the time. They 187 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: meet force with compliance and backing down in weakness. They 188 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: think they can passive their way out of the crisis 189 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: because they don't dare exert any sort of authority because 190 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: they're trying to build a utopian wonderland with wild unicorns 191 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: running through the streets. That's their dream. And and and 192 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: they lack they they've lost the capacity for critical thinking, 193 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: and so they don't dare resist so chas in Seattle 194 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: and what's going on in Portland. And then you know 195 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: a lot of the smashing and looting around the country. 196 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: If there's much of that, there will be people going 197 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: to vote the day of the president presidential election that 198 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: do not approve of Trump. They're in the disapproved column 199 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: in all the polls, who do vote for him because 200 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: they feel like that's a better chance to get control 201 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: of this chaos. Well, yeah, like I've said, the mayors 202 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: of San Francisco and Portland and Seattle, you are doing 203 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: fabulous work for the Trump Committee. You're doing better work 204 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: than his guys if you get him elect. If you 205 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: wanted to be strategic, you'd wait and hope that Biden 206 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: got elected. Then you could do this sort of thing, 207 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: and Biden would be getting some fair pressure from his 208 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: left flank to not, you know, be too tough on it, 209 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Um or you can get Trump 210 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: reelected and then something might actually stop you. God, that's amazing. 211 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: Six weeks every night they just allow it to happen, 212 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: right night after night. Nobody gets arrested and nobody gets convicted. 213 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: And because it's the West Coast, it gets zero national attention. Yeah. 214 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: Great cities in this country. Sad. Yeah, alright, Well, we'll 215 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: have to keep an eye on it together and watches 216 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: it descends into chaos. Sometimes these problems solve themselves. The 217 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: answer becomes so obviously. Even the delusional mayor Ted Wheeler 218 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: for instance, and the delusional city council people will have 219 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: to wake up to the reality. What's on, what's unfortunate though, 220 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: is the number of people that will be hurt in 221 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: the meantime.