Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland has decided to dash from his $840,000 condo in order to avoid rioters who have targeted his own on numerous occasions, according to the New York Post.
What a surprise - the guy coddles them for months and they end up targeting his condo. He's moving out.
Wheeler informed his neighbors that it would be better if he moved out of the area, for "everyone else's safety and peace," after rioters showed up to his condo on his 58th birthday and attempted to torch the place.
What a maroon.
In related Portland developments:
The 48-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter in Portland, Oregon, Saturday night was turned in to police by his sister. "We reached out to police and confirmed that we recognized Michael in the screenshots" posted online, she said, asking that her name not be published because of the threats.
So she didn't actually turn him in - he's still on the run, but she did confirm his identity. That certainly helps.
But the riots continue, about 100 days of them now.
On Sunday night, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown proposed a partnership of regional law enforcement to ease tensions in the streets of Portland following the fatal shooting of a Trump-supporting protester.
Today, the sheriffs of Clackamas and Washington counties rejected a key component of Brown's plan: They refused to send officers into Portland, saying they would not police protests in a county that won't prosecute people who break the law.
Shortly after the two sheriffs refused Brown's request, the Gresham police chief did the same, and the associations representing the state's sheriffs and police chiefs also preemptively rejected the idea of policing Portland.
Hey, Brown and Wheeler started the mess through their lack of firm responses, and the new DA says he won't prosecute most of those who have been arrested.
The latest move seems to involve deployment of state troopers again, only this time the troopers are being sworn in as deputy U.S. Marshals. This means that any arrests they make will fall under federal jurisdiction; neatly bypassing the Multnomah county DA and various Portland-area politicians.
It may even get the attention of the rioters.
