When is the last time a major city had a month long ongoing riot. Well, Portland is doing it. And you want to know what's going on overnight, you go to Andy Know's Twitter page. Uh here's one of his tweets from this morning. Violent protests and lawlessness continues in Portland. At the ANTIFA and BLM gathering night last night, a car was surrounded and multiple shots were fired. Police stayed
away on the orders of the city. Father's no doubt one of the great cities in America's descending into lawlessness, violence, twenty three million dollars in damages and lost customers to local businesses, millions of dollars in damage to federal buildings. UM and the Portland Police are not happy about it. In fact, Officer Darryl Turner joins us. Darryll is not only an active duty a peace officer with the Portland Police Department, he's also the president of the Portland Police Association,
representing all sorts of folks in law enforcement. Darryl, how are you, sir? Good? Thanks? How are you good? Hey? It's a little frustrating to watch. It must be frustrating to you to see the beautiful city of Portlands descending the chaos like this. Um, the mainstream media would call them civil rights protesters, the people doing this. What's actually happening in Portland? Well, what you have several people who
are protesting peacefully. Um, but you have a group and uh, I don't know what they call themselves, but a group that have hijacked the message, have hijacked the uh, the meaning of what's going on to protests a peaceful protests and turned it into riots, and turned it into the destruction of property, burning things, destroying business properties, destroying public buildings as well, um, and defacing them as well as
assaulting not only peaceful protesters, but assaulting law enforcement officers. And is this going on every single night or do they take nights off? Um? There have been consistently, We're probably somewhere around forty nights in a row, forty different levels of different levels of riot, all the way from you know, a few, you know, dozen people up to
a few hundred people. Well, let me quote the Portland Police Union president, I have no confidence that the city will stop the rioting and the looting and protect the livelihood of Portlanders. That's a heck of a thing. Well, right now, that's what it seems like we've reached out to the elected officials uh and and and say they need to condemn uh these actions, but not only condemn them, they need to make sure that their measures taking that
they're not only arrested, but the prosecuted. UM. And that seems to be uh something they don't want to do. And as a matter of fact, in some cases they've also applauded some of the actions and not the violent actions, not the not the destruction of property. But they've I I believe in my mind that they've actually egged them on a little bit too to go ahead and uh
condone what's going on here. So other than having folks arrested and then prosecuted for what are clearly crimes often documented on on videotape, what else does the Portland PD need from the city council? What they need to support, They need to support to be able to go ahead and do the work we need to do. Um, they need not to hear the need care of reactions of
our city council members. When we use c S gas UM, that is a valuable tool that allows us to keep distance and also to be able to disperse riotous crowds in a timely manner um. And we're getting many complaints from those rioters to terry gases. Uh is uh sadistic and horrific, But in fact it breaks those rides up. And that's what if it needs to be done as
it needs to be done um. In other words, if we don't use those measures and we have to actually contact people, we have the number one, we can't keep our distance. And number two, it looks bad when you're grabbing people and hitting them with sticks and such things and using physical force when you can use something that's less force um and more reliable and just irritating and people wash out their eyes and they're fine. Officer Darryl
Turner as the president of the Portland Police Association. Darryl, let's stay in touch. I mean forty two in front of me. It says forty two nights in a row. If this turns into a hundred and forty two nights in a row of violence and and and fires and the rest of it, I mean, I don't know it. It's not sustainable. This is the problem. We're having small business owners that have already been impacted by COVID ninety
who were had to close their businesses. Who are just hanging on by a thread because of COVID nineteen, the worst pandemic that we've seen in decades, are now suffering because their businesses are being destroyed. Their businesses are being vanalized and looted and hurt. Not only that, they're the people who have usually come downtown or to other places in the city to frequent those businesses won't come down there.
So you have hundreds of small businesses and thousands and tens of thousands of people that are employed by those businesses being impacted by UH. And when I say a handful out of mean five or ten, but a handful, as compared to the size of the city, a handful of people who want to riot and cause casts and have no other mission but to do that. They are not talking about a message. They are not sending that message that needs to be sent about social justice, racial equality.
That message is not being sent by those writers. They are simply out there causing casts, causing damage just to just to say that criminal acts. They're criminals. Even worse, they went to one of the precincts. They pushed dumpsters up against the doors and set them on fire when they knew people were inside. That's a crime, that's an a felony, and that's our sent in the first degree. They did it to our justice center. They set fire to the justice center, but hundreds of the inmates and
dozens of correctional officers inside. That's the class a felony. Um. And all that time, our city leaders have sat back and not uh, not only have they not condemned it, and although the mayor has somewhat and spotty instances condemned that violence, they have not done anything about it. Wow, you're either on the side of good or you're not. Officer Devil Turner of the Portland Police in Portland Police Association, Daryl great to talk to you, sir. All right, thank you,
thank you. Can imagine you've got to stop it. You just gotta stop it. Well, and in Portland he is so out of its mind. These people who are committing the acts of violence every day. They are lunatics. They are they're quite literally anarchists and Marxists, and they're dangerous, they're insane. But they put up with it because the city council so far left, they recognized them and as ideological brothers and voters and they don't dare crack down.
They're attempting to build an anarchist utopia and it has you know, it's just like the idiotic chairs in Seattle. It's degenerated into violence and in horror. But the chairs was a lot of laying around. Um. I'm surprised that there's the energy for forty two straight knights of rioting, that there's enough anger or feeling that they're going to
accomplish something that that it's continuing. Well, you have the hard core and then you have the useful idiots who think they're rioting for civil rights, so that they're being done by the extremists who want to tear the system down, and you know what, Portland's letting them. Apparently. I would have never believed that you could have riots for Ford two straight nights in a city in the United States.
I would have never believed that was possible. The city would get it under control, and if for some reason they were outmatched the county wood and if they're outmatched, the state would rightever right there, yeah, or you got the National Garden there. I would have never thought that for six weeks straight. So if you've never been to Andy Nose Twitter feed. You should check it out. It's
n g O is the way it's spelled. It's easy to find because he's a blue checkmark and he's a journalist more or less in Portland, and he's got so many posts of videos and pictures. But this one that I was just looking at from yesterday, this is what Antifa rieters have been systematically doing in the security cameras downtown.
And it's got a it's got the view from the security camera of the Cintifa guy climbing up the pole alongside the building to get up high enough, and then he's got a stick and they starts smashing on the lens until it goes black, so they black out all the cameras so that there's less, you know, footage of them. They're harder to catch. They're using lasers to shine into the eyes of law enforcement. They wear shields and masks, all that sort of stuff, and they just smashed stuff.
They just smash and brake stuff night after night for six weeks and one of the prettiest cities in the world. Yeah, Darryl would be piste off at us for saying this. It's said sarcastically, but if you've ever wanted to be lawless, if you've ever wanted to smash stuff or steal stuff, or set fires or hurt people, because you can absolutely beat people down if you want. Go to downtown Portland
if you've because there is no law. If you've ever wondered what it would feel like to like smash a window out or something like that, because I've never done that, go to Portland into it because apparently you can. Um that makes you a terrible person in my mind, but apparently you can get away with it. Well, let me read that quote again, Portland Police Union President. I have no confidence that the city will stop the rioting and the looting and protect the livelihood of Portland's No. That
is a city that is completely out of control. That's amazing in a city that is afraid or unwilling to assert control. And listen, how do you see this ending? You geniuses? They will, They're deluded by their ideology, they have no capacity for logic. It's something I mean. I'm glad, I'm grateful I don't have a business in downtown Portland because I would be well, I'm either out of business at this point or terrified that I'm gonna lose my
life savings because the city won't enforce the law. And as a Darryl point it out, surely you consume it. They don't want them to arrest anybody. And if they do arrest people for being truly horrendous criminals, they won't prosecute them in an effort. And this is you see this in your utopian lefty cities all the time. They
meet force with compliance and backing down in weakness. They think they can passive their way out of the crisis because they don't dare exert any sort of authority because they're trying to build a utopian wonderland with wild unicorns running through the streets. That's their dream. And and and they lack they they've lost the capacity for critical thinking, and so they don't dare resist so chas in Seattle
and what's going on in Portland. And then you know a lot of the smashing and looting around the country. If there's much of that, there will be people going to vote the day of the president presidential election that do not approve of Trump. They're in the disapproved column in all the polls, who do vote for him because they feel like that's a better chance to get control of this chaos. Well, yeah, like I've said, the mayors of San Francisco and Portland and Seattle, you are doing
fabulous work for the Trump Committee. You're doing better work than his guys if you get him elect. If you wanted to be strategic, you'd wait and hope that Biden got elected. Then you could do this sort of thing, and Biden would be getting some fair pressure from his left flank to not, you know, be too tough on it, no doubt about it. Um or you can get Trump reelected and then something might actually stop you. God, that's amazing. Six weeks every night they just allow it to happen,
right night after night. Nobody gets arrested and nobody gets convicted. And because it's the West Coast, it gets zero national attention. Yeah. Great cities in this country. Sad. Yeah, alright, Well, we'll have to keep an eye on it together and watches it descends into chaos. Sometimes these problems solve themselves. The answer becomes so obviously. Even the delusional mayor Ted Wheeler for instance, and the delusional city council people will have
to wake up to the reality. What's on, what's unfortunate though, is the number of people that will be hurt in the meantime.