Progressive community leaders call for Portland mayor, police chief to resign

Oregonian | Aug 31, 2020 | News | 2 

A group of leaders representing various progressive organizations from across the Portland area have called for the resignations of Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police Chief Chuck Lovell in the wake of Saturday’s fatal shooting.  Bobbin Singh, executive director of the Oregon Justice Resource Center, said the conditions leading up to the incident were predictable citing various instances of clashes between right-wing protesters and counter demonstrators over the years.

“These conditions have been created because there’s been a lack of leadership, a lack of vision,” Singh said. “We can no longer move forward with the current leadership that’s in place in Portland.”
The victim of Saturday’s shooting has not been identified but was wearing a hat bearing the logo of Vancouver, Washington-based Patriot Prayer. Leader Joey Gibson told The Oregonian/OregonLive that although he couldn’t provide a name, the deceased man was “a good friend and a supporter” of the organization.

The group regularly staged demonstrations in Portland that were met with fierce opposition by left-leaning and other community groups for at least the last three years. Many of the scenes that typically played out during those rallies repeated Saturday as right-wing demonstrators pelted counter protesters with paint balls and scuffles broke out throughout downtown..........“What took place last night was inevitable given Mayor Wheeler’s repeated failure,” the letter said. “He has not protected or supported Portlanders. We do not have confidence in his ability to course-correct. He must resign.”.............To Read More.....

My Take - Try and get this right. These are still progressives, left wing lunatics.  The Mayor and the Chief of Police are their picks, and I'm sure if they'd been all law and order types, the Chief of Police nor the Mayor would have those jobs.  Even while condemning one of their own, as if they would have done so much better, they're still trying to spin this to blame conservatives. Portland is getting the government they asked for and the suffering they're undergoing is well deserved.  Portland is doomed, and who cares?  The states these lunatics will eventually move to.