PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has identified Portland, Seattle, and New York City as jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property and that have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities. The declaration comes in response to President Donald Trump's memorandum from Sept. 2, 2020. The memorandum is titled “Memorandum on Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities.”
The designation may well result in cities losing targeted federal funds.
In its press release, the Department of Justice notes that Portland had more than 100 consecutive nights of protests "marred by vandalism, chaos, and even killing." It said protesters started fires, threw projectiles at law enforcement officers, and destroyed property. The DOJ says several officers were injured.
Yes - I believe we're on day (night) 104 now in Portland. The feds have offered to send in assistance, but the so-called mayor flatly rejected it.
Portland paper Willamette Week provided a platform for Portland rioters charged with crimes who are upset that Andy Ngo posted public records profiling their alleged criminal activity. The article, titled "Portland Protesters Say Their Lives Were Upended by the Posting of Their Mug Shots on a Conservative Twitter Account," was published early Wednesday morning.
Ngo's actions - unlike those of the rioters - are perfectly legal, as the police data are matters of pubic record. That the rioters are upset over the free publicity kind of falls under the heading of "don't do the crimes". One of the rioters, a paralegal of all things, has since lost his employment:
On Aug. 18, three days after Ngo posted the mug shot, Phillip Wenzel's boss at Elizabeth Christy Law Firm sent him a letter that the firm had received 50 threatening or harassing communications since his arrest. "Because you have chosen to engage in activism that has resulted in violence, physical injuries, and negative publicity for [the law firm], there is now a major distraction from the business we are doing, a threat to my ability to gain new business, and a threat to our employees' safety," Christy wrote in an email provided to WW.
Another doesn't appear to have lost her job as yet:
April Epperson, who works at a Northeast Portland public school, is another protester who was arrested for disorderly conduct and interfering with a peace officer on Aug. 24 and was greeted that same day by a Ngo tweet sharing her mug shot and Facebook profile picture with part of the caption reading, "Like others recently arrest[ed], she works with children at an elementary school." Several commenters on the subsequent Twitter thread shared the name of the school.
It's rather unseemly behavior for a school teacher who allegedly teaches 4th grade.
Newsflash: Rioting can be detrimental to your health and job prospects.