Texts show cops were working with far right in Portland protests
 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...emists-n971926


Time to burn it to the ground. I guess now Antifa is justified in their actions..



PORTLAND, Ore. — A member of Portland's city council said Thursday a newspaper's report that the commander for the police rapid response team exchanged friendly text messages with a leader of far-right protests that have rocked the city confirms collusion exists between some police and right-wing extremists.

"I am not shocked, and I am not surprised at today's reporting of Lt. Jeff Niiya's collaboration with Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson over text to provide aid and support for their hate marches," Councilwoman Jo Ann Hardesty said in a statement.

Willamette Week obtained text messages through a public records request between Niiya and Gibson. The texts purportedly show Niiya had a friendly rapport with Gibson, frequently discussing Gibson's plans to demonstrate.

In one text reported by the newspaper, Niiya tells Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest his assistant, Tusitala Toese, who often brawls with antifascist protesters, even if he has a warrant, unless Toese commits a new crime.

"Just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention," Niiya texted Gibson on Dec. 9, 2017, Willamette Week reported. "If he still has the warrant in the system (I don't run you guys so I don't personally know) the officers could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason."

Portland police were accused at a protest last August of being heavy-handed against people, injuring some, who were protesting a rally of extreme-right demonstrators organized by Gibson.

Hardesty said the "broken policing system in Portland" must be addressed.

"This story, like many that have come before it, simply confirms what many in the community have already known — there are members of the Portland police force who work in collusion with right-wing extremists," she said.

I'm not surprised.

I grew up in Vancouver, Washington & Portland on the opposite side of the Columbia River. I've said many times here that I grew up with racists in Vancouver and one of the schools I went to, with hundreds of kids, had just one black kid, he was new. Over a few weeks they psychologically tortured that kid eventually beat him up and in the end ran the family out of town.

They are good people but many there are afflicted with the fear and the ignorance of racism. The good old boy network runs deep in the northwest. I love the Northwest it's so beautiful there the only reason I left is the weather, too much rain.

Portland has long been known as a hot spot for skinheads & racists who are now known as the alt right. It's where Patriot Prayer is from.

It's been known for a long time that the neo Nazis and alt right have been trying to get their guys on the police forces and in the US military. I remember watching documentaries on that shit back in the mid 2000's. Seems they've done it and now it's time to end them once & for all.

Antifa are domestic terrorists.

You are a domestic terrorist..

Yes they grow up in the sticks of Vancouver, Battleground, Camas, Salmon Creek, Hockinson, etc. then they move to "the big city" Portland. The typical lifecycle after that is getting hooked on meth and/or heroin then migrate down to California, Nevada or Arizona. The potheads move to Colorado.

The funny thing is there's a fairly substantive Gay skinhead subculture in Portland.