Portland Ends 2020 With Violence as Rioters Destroy Businesses and Throw Firebombs at Police

By Lorenz Duchamps January 1, 2021

Authorities in Portland declared another riot near the federal courthouse shortly before the New Year after a large crowd of rioters clashed with police, smashed windows, and threw firebombs, according to police.

The riot was declared at about 11 p.m. after a crowd of between 80 and 100 protesters gathered earlier in the night in the area of Southwest Avenue and Southwest Main Street, with some in the crowd engaging in violence, according to a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) statement.

At least two Molotov cocktail-style firebombs and large fireworks were hurled and launched at riot police, the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, and the Multnomah County Justice Center, police and video footage confirms. Some rioters also attempted to break into the justice center but failed to do so.

“Portland Police officers citywide had to be pulled from answering emergency calls to respond,” PPB officials said.............To Read More.....

• Antifa celebrates the New Year by trashing downtown Portland January 2, 2021 The riots, however, did have one very unexpected benefit, although it may fall into the “too little too late” category..........Even someone as far gone as Biden should have understood that ideas do not riot for months, blind law enforcement officers with lasers, throw dangerous projectiles, try to burn buildings, or engage in any other violent activity. Organized people – such as Antifa – do that kind of thing.  But the Democrats had their narrative, and they were sticking to it. According to Democrat gnome Jerry Nadler, the claim that Antifa was committing acts of violence was a “myth.”.... More

My Take - When you allow thuggery to go unchecked, thuggery will grow.  Why does this lesson have to be learned over and over again?  It has to be learned over and over again because leftist lunatics always know better than history, tradition or the reality unfolding right before their eyes.   

They have a utopian vision that's never been achieved by the left anywhere in the world all throughout history.  Leftism is a failure, that's history, and that history is incontestable.   But they refuse to believe it, read it or hear it.   Portland elected leftist lunatics and are learning that history all over again, and because they're all fundamentally leftists, they'll keep electing lunatics.  

Portland is done!  People are going to abandon that city and who knows how many years it will be before it can return to its former state.  No wonder the rest of the state wasn't to secede from Oregon.