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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: War ravaged Portland
Date: 10/01/25 1:21 PM
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And btw, there WAS a court case.
The woman in one of the videos you people ignored's name is Cloud Elvengrail. She sued the city to force them to stop the noise:

kgw.com - Portland protests cloud elvengrail sues city ice facility noise laws

PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman who lives near the South Portland ICE facility and its near-nightly protests is suing the city over the noise.

Sirens, bullhorn messages from protesters, buzzers, bells and revving engines are among the cacophony Cloud Elvengrail says are making her home, where she's lived since last July, "akin to a torture chamber."

According to the lawsuit, Elvengrail lives in low-income housing, Gray's Landing, across the street from the ICE facility, as well as near a Tesla showroom. She said the noises have been happening well into the night for weeks, with the lawsuit describing an incident in late June, when Elvengrail "felt pressure in her left ear... When she reached up to touch her ear, she saw her finger was covered in blood."


So in this thread:
*Folks pretended there were no residents there (wrong)
*Folks pushed back on the 100 nights thing (it's been entered into court as evidence and wasn't contested by the city, so wrong again)

But hey! It's free speech!

All she asked was that the city enforce the noise ordinances. She drew a judge who was the former Oregon AG.
Know what she got?

Pound sand. 'Insufficient evidence'.

kgw.com - Judge rules for police discretion with noise

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland woman who lives near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building says she's disappointed with a judge's ruling regarding noise.

She and her attorneys filed a lawsuit hoping the judge would compel police to enforce the city's noise ordinances and crack down on criminal activity near the ICE building.

Attorney Julie Parrish said for more than 70 days, her client, Cloud Elvengrail, has put up with yelling, loud bangs and people pounding on her door. Parrish said Judge Ellen Rosenblum's bench ruling essentially left matters up to the police officers' discretion, even though the judge felt for the plaintiff.


And Portland's woke wimp police chief won't enforce the laws on the books. Talk about violating the social contract big time. You people can bet your lives that if this was a bunch of Proud Boys doing this even 2 times in a row they'd all be behind bars.

Parrish said the ruling was disappointing for Elvengrail who believes the city's noise ordinance from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. should apply to the noise she hears most nights.

"I don't think what we were asking for was unreasonable," said Parrish. "We filed a writ of mandamus asking a judge to compel Portland police to do their job."


The judge denied the writ. Here's Cloud Elvengrail's statement:

X (Twitter): Post, by @KatieDaviscourt

The Portland resident who went viral after confronting Antifa outside the ICE facility in Portland has issued a statement to
@TPostMillennial
on President Trump sending in troops:

"For over 100 days, my community has faced relentless harassment, robbery, assault, and racial violence at the hands of these protesters. Day and night, the danger has continued while Portland police and city leaders refused to act, refused to protect us, and refused to address our legitimate concerns. The people of South Portland have been abandoned.

Therefore, I want to thank President Trump for responding to our plight by sending the National Guard. Just as President Eisenhower acted in Little Rock to uphold the rights and safety of citizens when local authorities refused, President Trump has stepped in where Portland’s leaders failed.

He has provided the security and relief our community needed but was denied by those entrusted to protect us.

God Bless you President Trump!"


Still, I love the standard of "evidence" you people will now be held to.

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