After months of mollycoddling, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler vowed to get tough on Antifa, whose members engage in near-nightly campaigns of mayhem, violence and destruction in the city.
“My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists,” Wheeler said in a news conference Friday evening. “In response, it will be necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring the criminal destruction and violence to an end.” READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/01/02/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-vows-to-get-tough-with-antifa/
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Portland rang in the new year with a riot — as vandals wreaked havoc throughout the Oregon city, tossing Molotov cocktails and attacking law enforcement with rocks and bricks, police said.....The planned protest was billed as being “in solidarity with BLM” with “no streamers, no megaphones, no masters,” according to online posts. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/01/01/portland-kicks-off-2021-with-another-riot-for-the-new-year/
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