Subject: Re: War ravaged Portland
If you're not asserting it's a crime, then what do you think the state troopers would be doing? On what basis would they disperse the crowd or prevent it from forming each day?

How about providing a barrier between the left's street army and the ICE building?

Oh, right- that's expensive. Well so is having ICE agents do what they're having to do every day.

Also lost in this are the poor suckers that have to live there with this day in and day out...but their rights don't matter either.

But the reason that ICE hasn't just gone out and arrested them for doing that is the same reason the state police aren't coming up with some super-broad interpretation of a state statute to do that - it's a really dumb move, since it would just pour gasoline on the fire.

What are they going to do, riot?

And again, since the ICE agents - who are also law enforcement officers with arrest powers and guns - didn't go out and arrest these folks for shining lasers, that's a pretty good sign that it doesn't fall within general assault crimes.

I'll leave it to someone else to look up the definition of assault with intent. Let's also remind ourselves that if the ICE agents busted some local for assault with a laser that the Multnomah county (that's Portland's county DA) would set them free in under 5 minutes.

Again, this is why you don't see this stuff in blue cities in RED states because Antifa knows they'll get jail time. In true-blue Portland, OR? It's open season on Republicans. Same is true in WA state.