WEBVTT - A Violent Disaster: Portland's Wild Anarchist Utopia. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:02.760 When is the last time a major city had a 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.960 month long ongoing riot. Well, Portland is doing it. And 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:07.680 you want to know what's going on overnight, you go 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.560 to Andy Know's Twitter page. Uh here's one of his 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.480 tweets from this morning. Violent protests and lawlessness continues in Portland. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.279 At the ANTIFA and BLM gathering night last night, a 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.720 car was surrounded and multiple shots were fired. Police stayed 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.360 away on the orders of the city. Father's no doubt 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.160 one of the great cities in America's descending into lawlessness, violence, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.720 twenty three million dollars in damages and lost customers to 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.000 local businesses, millions of dollars in damage to federal buildings. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.720 UM and the Portland Police are not happy about it. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.920 In fact, Officer Darryl Turner joins us. Darryll is not 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.240 only an active duty a peace officer with the Portland 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.600 Police Department, he's also the president of the Portland Police Association, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.400 representing all sorts of folks in law enforcement. Darryl, how 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.880 are you, sir? Good? Thanks? How are you good? Hey? 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.320 It's a little frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.720 to you to see the beautiful city of Portlands descending 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.200 the chaos like this. Um, the mainstream media would call 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.959 them civil rights protesters, the people doing this. What's actually 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.880 happening in Portland? Well, what you have several people who 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.959 are protesting peacefully. Um, but you have a group and uh, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.800 I don't know what they call themselves, but a group 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:25.560 that have hijacked the message, have hijacked the uh, the 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.080 meaning of what's going on to protests a peaceful protests 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.960 and turned it into riots, and turned it into the 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:38.360 destruction of property, burning things, destroying business properties, destroying public 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.560 buildings as well, um, and defacing them as well as 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.480 assaulting not only peaceful protesters, but assaulting law enforcement officers. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.720 And is this going on every single night or do 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:53.600 they take nights off? Um? There have been consistently, We're 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.880 probably somewhere around forty nights in a row, forty different 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.120 levels of different levels of riot, all the way from 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.280 you know, a few, you know, dozen people up to 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.320 a few hundred people. Well, let me quote the Portland 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.400 Police Union president, I have no confidence that the city 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.920 will stop the rioting and the looting and protect the 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.320 livelihood of Portlanders. That's a heck of a thing. Well, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.000 right now, that's what it seems like we've reached out 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.920 to the elected officials uh and and and say they 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.400 need to condemn uh these actions, but not only condemn them, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.320 they need to make sure that their measures taking that 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.400 they're not only arrested, but the prosecuted. UM. And that 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.440 seems to be uh something they don't want to do. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.080 And as a matter of fact, in some cases they've 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.639 also applauded some of the actions and not the violent actions, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.040 not the not the destruction of property. But they've I 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.680 I believe in my mind that they've actually egged them 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.400 on a little bit too to go ahead and uh 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.919 condone what's going on here. So other than having folks 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.160 arrested and then prosecuted for what are clearly crimes often 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.240 documented on on videotape, what else does the Portland PD 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.040 need from the city council? What they need to support, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.680 They need to support to be able to go ahead 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.000 and do the work we need to do. Um, they 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.639 need not to hear the need care of reactions of 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.120 our city council members. When we use c S gas UM, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.000 that is a valuable tool that allows us to keep 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.800 distance and also to be able to disperse riotous crowds 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.680 in a timely manner um. And we're getting many complaints 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:37.080 from those rioters to terry gases. Uh is uh sadistic 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.400 and horrific, But in fact it breaks those rides up. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.440 And that's what if it needs to be done as 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.880 it needs to be done um. In other words, if 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.320 we don't use those measures and we have to actually 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.280 contact people, we have the number one, we can't keep 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.240 our distance. And number two, it looks bad when you're 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.120 grabbing people and hitting them with sticks and such things 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.400 and using physical force when you can use something that's 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.680 less force um and more reliable and just irritating and 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.040 people wash out their eyes and they're fine. Officer Darryl 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:11.120 Turner as the president of the Portland Police Association. Darryl, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.400 let's stay in touch. I mean forty two in front 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:15.760 of me. It says forty two nights in a row. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.880 If this turns into a hundred and forty two nights 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.000 in a row of violence and and and fires and 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.479 the rest of it, I mean, I don't know it. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.359 It's not sustainable. This is the problem. We're having small 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.880 business owners that have already been impacted by COVID ninety 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.760 who were had to close their businesses. Who are just 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.080 hanging on by a thread because of COVID nineteen, the 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.160 worst pandemic that we've seen in decades, are now suffering 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.200 because their businesses are being destroyed. Their businesses are being 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.839 vanalized and looted and hurt. Not only that, they're the 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.599 people who have usually come downtown or to other places 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.320 in the city to frequent those businesses won't come down there. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.320 So you have hundreds of small businesses and thousands and 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.520 tens of thousands of people that are employed by those 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.080 businesses being impacted by UH. And when I say a 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:04.880 handful out of mean five or ten, but a handful, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.400 as compared to the size of the city, a handful 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.040 of people who want to riot and cause casts and 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.720 have no other mission but to do that. They are 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.960 not talking about a message. They are not sending that 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.760 message that needs to be sent about social justice, racial equality. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.840 That message is not being sent by those writers. They 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.000 are simply out there causing casts, causing damage just to 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:33.599 just to say that criminal acts. They're criminals. Even worse, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.640 they went to one of the precincts. They pushed dumpsters 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.120 up against the doors and set them on fire when 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.840 they knew people were inside. That's a crime, that's an 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.000 a felony, and that's our sent in the first degree. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.440 They did it to our justice center. They set fire 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.160 to the justice center, but hundreds of the inmates and 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:55.640 dozens of correctional officers inside. That's the class a felony. Um. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.400 And all that time, our city leaders have sat back 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.400 and not uh, not only have they not condemned it, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.960 and although the mayor has somewhat and spotty instances condemned 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.360 that violence, they have not done anything about it. Wow, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.039 you're either on the side of good or you're not. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.839 Officer Devil Turner of the Portland Police in Portland Police Association, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.680 Daryl great to talk to you, sir. All right, thank you, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.520 thank you. Can imagine you've got to stop it. You 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.400 just gotta stop it. Well, and in Portland he is 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.640 so out of its mind. These people who are committing 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.720 the acts of violence every day. They are lunatics. They 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.360 are they're quite literally anarchists and Marxists, and they're dangerous, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.400 they're insane. But they put up with it because the 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.240 city council so far left, they recognized them and as 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.479 ideological brothers and voters and they don't dare crack down. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:49.479 They're attempting to build an anarchist utopia and it has 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.200 you know, it's just like the idiotic chairs in Seattle. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.360 It's degenerated into violence and in horror. But the chairs 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.400 was a lot of laying around. Um. I'm surprised that 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.919 there's the energy for forty two straight knights of rioting, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.640 that there's enough anger or feeling that they're going to 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.320 accomplish something that that it's continuing. Well, you have the 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.600 hard core and then you have the useful idiots who 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.440 think they're rioting for civil rights, so that they're being 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.160 done by the extremists who want to tear the system down, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.360 and you know what, Portland's letting them. Apparently. I would 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.560 have never believed that you could have riots for Ford 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.640 two straight nights in a city in the United States. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.240 I would have never believed that was possible. The city 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.320 would get it under control, and if for some reason 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.160 they were outmatched the county wood and if they're outmatched, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.320 the state would rightever right there, yeah, or you got 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.480 the National Garden there. I would have never thought that 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:54.360 for six weeks straight. So if you've never been to 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.520 Andy Nose Twitter feed. You should check it out. It's 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.360 n g O is the way it's spelled. It's easy 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.000 to find because he's a blue checkmark and he's a 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.000 journalist more or less in Portland, and he's got so 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.840 many posts of videos and pictures. But this one that 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.120 I was just looking at from yesterday, this is what 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.640 Antifa rieters have been systematically doing in the security cameras downtown. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.840 And it's got a it's got the view from the 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.320 security camera of the Cintifa guy climbing up the pole 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.000 alongside the building to get up high enough, and then 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.920 he's got a stick and they starts smashing on the 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.360 lens until it goes black, so they black out all 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.360 the cameras so that there's less, you know, footage of them. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.160 They're harder to catch. They're using lasers to shine into 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.320 the eyes of law enforcement. They wear shields and masks, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.160 all that sort of stuff, and they just smashed stuff. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.000 They just smash and brake stuff night after night for 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.040 six weeks and one of the prettiest cities in the world. Yeah, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.520 Darryl would be piste off at us for saying this. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.079 It's said sarcastically, but if you've ever wanted to be lawless, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.280 if you've ever wanted to smash stuff or steal stuff, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.239 or set fires or hurt people, because you can absolutely 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.800 beat people down if you want. Go to downtown Portland 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.000 if you've because there is no law. If you've ever 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.160 wondered what it would feel like to like smash a 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.080 window out or something like that, because I've never done that, 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.400 go to Portland into it because apparently you can. Um 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.360 that makes you a terrible person in my mind, but 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.319 apparently you can get away with it. Well, let me 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.240 read that quote again, Portland Police Union President. I have 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.240 no confidence that the city will stop the rioting and 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.240 the looting and protect the livelihood of Portland's No. That 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.559 is a city that is completely out of control. That's 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.400 amazing in a city that is afraid or unwilling to 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:37.000 assert control. And listen, how do you see this ending? 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.400 You geniuses? They will, They're deluded by their ideology, they 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:47.079 have no capacity for logic. It's something I mean. I'm glad, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.720 I'm grateful I don't have a business in downtown Portland 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.040 because I would be well, I'm either out of business 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.120 at this point or terrified that I'm gonna lose my 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.839 life savings because the city won't enforce the law. And 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.480 as a Darryl point it out, surely you consume it. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.760 They don't want them to arrest anybody. And if they 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.120 do arrest people for being truly horrendous criminals, they won't 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.040 prosecute them in an effort. And this is you see 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.160 this in your utopian lefty cities all the time. They 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.320 meet force with compliance and backing down in weakness. They 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.520 think they can passive their way out of the crisis 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.640 because they don't dare exert any sort of authority because 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.840 they're trying to build a utopian wonderland with wild unicorns 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.320 running through the streets. That's their dream. And and and 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.200 they lack they they've lost the capacity for critical thinking, 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.400 and so they don't dare resist so chas in Seattle 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.400 and what's going on in Portland. And then you know 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.600 a lot of the smashing and looting around the country. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.720 If there's much of that, there will be people going 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.640 to vote the day of the president presidential election that 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.920 do not approve of Trump. They're in the disapproved column 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.240 in all the polls, who do vote for him because 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.560 they feel like that's a better chance to get control 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.960 of this chaos. Well, yeah, like I've said, the mayors 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.000 of San Francisco and Portland and Seattle, you are doing 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:19.600 fabulous work for the Trump Committee. You're doing better work 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.839 than his guys if you get him elect. If you 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.280 wanted to be strategic, you'd wait and hope that Biden 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.200 got elected. Then you could do this sort of thing, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.320 and Biden would be getting some fair pressure from his 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.320 left flank to not, you know, be too tough on it, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:40.680 no doubt about it. Um or you can get Trump 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.960 reelected and then something might actually stop you. God, that's amazing. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.120 Six weeks every night they just allow it to happen, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:53.080 right night after night. Nobody gets arrested and nobody gets convicted. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:58.520 And because it's the West Coast, it gets zero national attention. Yeah. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.000 Great cities in this country. Sad. Yeah, alright, Well, we'll 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.960 have to keep an eye on it together and watches 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:10.360 it descends into chaos. Sometimes these problems solve themselves. The 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.280 answer becomes so obviously. Even the delusional mayor Ted Wheeler 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.480 for instance, and the delusional city council people will have 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.520 to wake up to the reality. What's on, what's unfortunate though, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.840 is the number of people that will be hurt in 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:24.480 the meantime.