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I posted you more than June 15; you’re ignoring the other incidents.
I'm not ignoring them - they just don't support what you're arguing.
You say the police aren't doing their jobs. But then you post that they've been arresting people when they cross the line from protest to criminal behavior. You post videos of them shining laser pointers at ICE - but that probably doesn't constitute a criminal offense, so it's not clear what state troopers being on site would do about that. Etc.
No one disagrees that the police should intervene if there's an actual riot going on. But that's not what's happening right now. Mandatory disclaimer - my pointing out that there isn't a riot is not me arguing that there are no problems in Portland, or even that there are no problems outside of the ICE building. But the most reasonable approach to those problems is almost certainly what the PB was doing - arresting people if they did anything that was actually criminal, but otherwise just let them protest and it will fizzle out over time. Which is what was happening; the number of people there had been declining over time, as folks just gradually lost interest.
But beyond that what’s even more hilarious is that you’re conveniently forgetting that the correct number of riots outside of a federal building is … wait for it … zero.
I agree. But that's the number of riots that are currently taking place outside the ICE building in Portland - zero. If you had evidence that there was actually a riot going on there all the time that wasn't being addressed, I'd be more inclined to agree with you that something needed to change. But the only riot they've had was the one that took place on June 15. And with that riot, local PD went in and took action and dispersed the crowd forthwith, with arrests and prosecutions following. There hasn't been a riot since then, and that's the correct number of riots.
