Speaker 1: When is the last time a major city had a
Speaker 1: month long ongoing riot. Well, Portland is doing it. And
Speaker 1: you want to know what's going on overnight, you go
Speaker 1: to Andy Know's Twitter page. Uh here's one of his
Speaker 1: tweets from this morning. Violent protests and lawlessness continues in Portland.
Speaker 1: At the ANTIFA and BLM gathering night last night, a
Speaker 1: car was surrounded and multiple shots were fired. Police stayed
Speaker 1: away on the orders of the city. Father's no doubt
Speaker 1: one of the great cities in America's descending into lawlessness, violence,
Speaker 1: twenty three million dollars in damages and lost customers to
Speaker 1: local businesses, millions of dollars in damage to federal buildings.
Speaker 1: UM and the Portland Police are not happy about it.
Speaker 1: In fact, Officer Darryl Turner joins us. Darryll is not
Speaker 1: only an active duty a peace officer with the Portland
Speaker 1: Police Department, he's also the president of the Portland Police Association,
Speaker 1: representing all sorts of folks in law enforcement. Darryl, how
Speaker 1: are you, sir? Good? Thanks? How are you good? Hey?
Speaker 1: It's a little frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating
Speaker 1: to you to see the beautiful city of Portlands descending
Speaker 1: the chaos like this. Um, the mainstream media would call
Speaker 1: them civil rights protesters, the people doing this. What's actually
Speaker 1: happening in Portland? Well, what you have several people who
Speaker 1: are protesting peacefully. Um, but you have a group and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they call themselves, but a group
Speaker 1: that have hijacked the message, have hijacked the uh, the
Speaker 1: meaning of what's going on to protests a peaceful protests
Speaker 1: and turned it into riots, and turned it into the
Speaker 1: destruction of property, burning things, destroying business properties, destroying public
Speaker 1: buildings as well, um, and defacing them as well as
Speaker 1: assaulting not only peaceful protesters, but assaulting law enforcement officers.
Speaker 1: And is this going on every single night or do
Speaker 1: they take nights off? Um? There have been consistently, We're
Speaker 1: probably somewhere around forty nights in a row, forty different
Speaker 1: levels of different levels of riot, all the way from
Speaker 1: you know, a few, you know, dozen people up to
Speaker 1: a few hundred people. Well, let me quote the Portland
Speaker 1: Police Union president, I have no confidence that the city
Speaker 1: will stop the rioting and the looting and protect the
Speaker 1: livelihood of Portlanders. That's a heck of a thing. Well,
Speaker 1: right now, that's what it seems like we've reached out
Speaker 1: to the elected officials uh and and and say they
Speaker 1: need to condemn uh these actions, but not only condemn them,
Speaker 1: they need to make sure that their measures taking that
Speaker 1: they're not only arrested, but the prosecuted. UM. And that
Speaker 1: seems to be uh something they don't want to do.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, in some cases they've
Speaker 1: also applauded some of the actions and not the violent actions,
Speaker 1: not the not the destruction of property. But they've I
Speaker 1: I believe in my mind that they've actually egged them
Speaker 1: on a little bit too to go ahead and uh
Speaker 1: condone what's going on here. So other than having folks
Speaker 1: arrested and then prosecuted for what are clearly crimes often
Speaker 1: documented on on videotape, what else does the Portland PD
Speaker 1: need from the city council? What they need to support,
Speaker 1: They need to support to be able to go ahead
Speaker 1: and do the work we need to do. Um, they
Speaker 1: need not to hear the need care of reactions of
Speaker 1: our city council members. When we use c S gas UM,
Speaker 1: that is a valuable tool that allows us to keep
Speaker 1: distance and also to be able to disperse riotous crowds
Speaker 1: in a timely manner um. And we're getting many complaints
Speaker 1: from those rioters to terry gases. Uh is uh sadistic
Speaker 1: and horrific, But in fact it breaks those rides up.
Speaker 1: And that's what if it needs to be done as
Speaker 1: it needs to be done um. In other words, if
Speaker 1: we don't use those measures and we have to actually
Speaker 1: contact people, we have the number one, we can't keep
Speaker 1: our distance. And number two, it looks bad when you're
Speaker 1: grabbing people and hitting them with sticks and such things
Speaker 1: and using physical force when you can use something that's
Speaker 1: less force um and more reliable and just irritating and
Speaker 1: people wash out their eyes and they're fine. Officer Darryl
Speaker 1: Turner as the president of the Portland Police Association. Darryl,
Speaker 1: let's stay in touch. I mean forty two in front
Speaker 1: of me. It says forty two nights in a row.
Speaker 1: If this turns into a hundred and forty two nights
Speaker 1: in a row of violence and and and fires and
Speaker 1: the rest of it, I mean, I don't know it.
Speaker 1: It's not sustainable. This is the problem. We're having small
Speaker 1: business owners that have already been impacted by COVID ninety
Speaker 1: who were had to close their businesses. Who are just
Speaker 1: hanging on by a thread because of COVID nineteen, the
Speaker 1: worst pandemic that we've seen in decades, are now suffering
Speaker 1: because their businesses are being destroyed. Their businesses are being
Speaker 1: vanalized and looted and hurt. Not only that, they're the
Speaker 1: people who have usually come downtown or to other places
Speaker 1: in the city to frequent those businesses won't come down there.
Speaker 1: So you have hundreds of small businesses and thousands and
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people that are employed by those
Speaker 1: businesses being impacted by UH. And when I say a
Speaker 1: handful out of mean five or ten, but a handful,
Speaker 1: as compared to the size of the city, a handful
Speaker 1: of people who want to riot and cause casts and
Speaker 1: have no other mission but to do that. They are
Speaker 1: not talking about a message. They are not sending that
Speaker 1: message that needs to be sent about social justice, racial equality.
Speaker 1: That message is not being sent by those writers. They
Speaker 1: are simply out there causing casts, causing damage just to
Speaker 1: just to say that criminal acts. They're criminals. Even worse,
Speaker 1: they went to one of the precincts. They pushed dumpsters
Speaker 1: up against the doors and set them on fire when
Speaker 1: they knew people were inside. That's a crime, that's an
Speaker 1: a felony, and that's our sent in the first degree.
Speaker 1: They did it to our justice center. They set fire
Speaker 1: to the justice center, but hundreds of the inmates and
Speaker 1: dozens of correctional officers inside. That's the class a felony. Um.
Speaker 1: And all that time, our city leaders have sat back
Speaker 1: and not uh, not only have they not condemned it,
Speaker 1: and although the mayor has somewhat and spotty instances condemned
Speaker 1: that violence, they have not done anything about it. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're either on the side of good or you're not.
Speaker 1: Officer Devil Turner of the Portland Police in Portland Police Association,
Speaker 1: Daryl great to talk to you, sir. All right, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. Can imagine you've got to stop it. You
Speaker 1: just gotta stop it. Well, and in Portland he is
Speaker 1: so out of its mind. These people who are committing
Speaker 1: the acts of violence every day. They are lunatics. They
Speaker 1: are they're quite literally anarchists and Marxists, and they're dangerous,
Speaker 1: they're insane. But they put up with it because the
Speaker 1: city council so far left, they recognized them and as
Speaker 1: ideological brothers and voters and they don't dare crack down.
Speaker 1: They're attempting to build an anarchist utopia and it has
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like the idiotic chairs in Seattle.
Speaker 1: It's degenerated into violence and in horror. But the chairs
Speaker 1: was a lot of laying around. Um. I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: there's the energy for forty two straight knights of rioting,
Speaker 1: that there's enough anger or feeling that they're going to
Speaker 1: accomplish something that that it's continuing. Well, you have the
Speaker 1: hard core and then you have the useful idiots who
Speaker 1: think they're rioting for civil rights, so that they're being
Speaker 1: done by the extremists who want to tear the system down,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Portland's letting them. Apparently. I would
Speaker 1: have never believed that you could have riots for Ford
Speaker 1: two straight nights in a city in the United States.
Speaker 1: I would have never believed that was possible. The city
Speaker 1: would get it under control, and if for some reason
Speaker 1: they were outmatched the county wood and if they're outmatched,
Speaker 1: the state would rightever right there, yeah, or you got
Speaker 1: the National Garden there. I would have never thought that
Speaker 1: for six weeks straight. So if you've never been to
Speaker 1: Andy Nose Twitter feed. You should check it out. It's
Speaker 1: n g O is the way it's spelled. It's easy
Speaker 1: to find because he's a blue checkmark and he's a
Speaker 1: journalist more or less in Portland, and he's got so
Speaker 1: many posts of videos and pictures. But this one that
Speaker 1: I was just looking at from yesterday, this is what
Speaker 1: Antifa rieters have been systematically doing in the security cameras downtown.
Speaker 1: And it's got a it's got the view from the
Speaker 1: security camera of the Cintifa guy climbing up the pole
Speaker 1: alongside the building to get up high enough, and then
Speaker 1: he's got a stick and they starts smashing on the
Speaker 1: lens until it goes black, so they black out all
Speaker 1: the cameras so that there's less, you know, footage of them.
Speaker 1: They're harder to catch. They're using lasers to shine into
Speaker 1: the eyes of law enforcement. They wear shields and masks,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and they just smashed stuff.
Speaker 1: They just smash and brake stuff night after night for
Speaker 1: six weeks and one of the prettiest cities in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Darryl would be piste off at us for saying this.
Speaker 1: It's said sarcastically, but if you've ever wanted to be lawless,
Speaker 1: if you've ever wanted to smash stuff or steal stuff,
Speaker 1: or set fires or hurt people, because you can absolutely
Speaker 1: beat people down if you want. Go to downtown Portland
Speaker 1: if you've because there is no law. If you've ever
Speaker 1: wondered what it would feel like to like smash a
Speaker 1: window out or something like that, because I've never done that,
Speaker 1: go to Portland into it because apparently you can. Um
Speaker 1: that makes you a terrible person in my mind, but
Speaker 1: apparently you can get away with it. Well, let me
Speaker 1: read that quote again, Portland Police Union President. I have
Speaker 1: no confidence that the city will stop the rioting and
Speaker 1: the looting and protect the livelihood of Portland's No. That
Speaker 1: is a city that is completely out of control. That's
Speaker 1: amazing in a city that is afraid or unwilling to
Speaker 1: assert control. And listen, how do you see this ending?
Speaker 1: You geniuses? They will, They're deluded by their ideology, they
Speaker 1: have no capacity for logic. It's something I mean. I'm glad,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful I don't have a business in downtown Portland
Speaker 1: because I would be well, I'm either out of business
Speaker 1: at this point or terrified that I'm gonna lose my
Speaker 1: life savings because the city won't enforce the law. And
Speaker 1: as a Darryl point it out, surely you consume it.
Speaker 1: They don't want them to arrest anybody. And if they
Speaker 1: do arrest people for being truly horrendous criminals, they won't
Speaker 1: prosecute them in an effort. And this is you see
Speaker 1: this in your utopian lefty cities all the time. They
Speaker 1: meet force with compliance and backing down in weakness. They
Speaker 1: think they can passive their way out of the crisis
Speaker 1: because they don't dare exert any sort of authority because
Speaker 1: they're trying to build a utopian wonderland with wild unicorns
Speaker 1: running through the streets. That's their dream. And and and
Speaker 1: they lack they they've lost the capacity for critical thinking,
Speaker 1: and so they don't dare resist so chas in Seattle
Speaker 1: and what's going on in Portland. And then you know
Speaker 1: a lot of the smashing and looting around the country.
Speaker 1: If there's much of that, there will be people going
Speaker 1: to vote the day of the president presidential election that
Speaker 1: do not approve of Trump. They're in the disapproved column
Speaker 1: in all the polls, who do vote for him because
Speaker 1: they feel like that's a better chance to get control
Speaker 1: of this chaos. Well, yeah, like I've said, the mayors
Speaker 1: of San Francisco and Portland and Seattle, you are doing
Speaker 1: fabulous work for the Trump Committee. You're doing better work
Speaker 1: than his guys if you get him elect. If you
Speaker 1: wanted to be strategic, you'd wait and hope that Biden
Speaker 1: got elected. Then you could do this sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and Biden would be getting some fair pressure from his
Speaker 1: left flank to not, you know, be too tough on it,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Um or you can get Trump
Speaker 1: reelected and then something might actually stop you. God, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Six weeks every night they just allow it to happen,
Speaker 1: right night after night. Nobody gets arrested and nobody gets convicted.
Speaker 1: And because it's the West Coast, it gets zero national attention. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Great cities in this country. Sad. Yeah, alright, Well, we'll
Speaker 1: have to keep an eye on it together and watches
Speaker 1: it descends into chaos. Sometimes these problems solve themselves. The
Speaker 1: answer becomes so obviously. Even the delusional mayor Ted Wheeler
Speaker 1: for instance, and the delusional city council people will have
Speaker 1: to wake up to the reality. What's on, what's unfortunate though,
Speaker 1: is the number of people that will be hurt in
Speaker 1: the meantime.