Mayor Ted Wheeler Has A Brilliant Idea!
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 3 months ago
In late July, Mayor Ted Wheeler had an idea he hoped would end the nightly clashes between protesters and police in Portland.
He texted Sonia Schmanski, a top aide, that he had a plan that was “high risk,” but he added that the city had “nothing to lose.”
His idea: Tell his police force to stand down from the demonstrations.
It was a move protesters had urged for months, arguing that police decked in riot gear needlessly raised the tensions of the nightly protests. Wheeler told OPB he, too, had noticed a “calming deescalating effect” on nights when police stayed out of sight.
But the protests soon drifted to the east side of the city. And Wheeler said he was persuaded that the plan was too dicey as protesters began targeting police buildings near homes in residential neighborhoods.
“I was persuaded that a complete withdrawal, even for one evening to test the ability to completely deescalate the situation, would be a risk that was too great,” he said in an interview last week. “We could not risk the people who were in the immediate vicinity.”
The Hail Mary was never put to the test. And so, as the city heads toward month four of nightly demonstrations for racial justice, Wheeler seems to find himself very near where he was during month one: without a clear plan to end the now-regular clashes between the police force he oversees and the protesters whose cause he says he embraces.
“We’re all considering all options,” he said. “The core objective here is to create a free and safe space to those people who want to express their First Amendment rights and to compartmentalize and deescalate the violence as much as possible and where it’s safe to do so arrest people and hold them accountable.”
“That’s the formula.”
Something tells me he’s never studied Sun Tzu.
On August 24, 2020 at 10:28 pm, Elmo said:
Something tells me he attended Portland Public Schools, received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University, an MBA from Columbia University and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Wheeler#Education
Any questions?
On August 24, 2020 at 10:31 pm, John said:
Mr. Mayor is uselessly conflicted. He wants to play on both sides and thereby he’s on none.
As soon as “peacfully assemble” went out their window, so did their First Amendment rights..
On August 25, 2020 at 8:45 am, Fred said:
This is the same thing as the “appeasement” article here at TCJ this am. So it gets the same answer. The scale of the appeasement only brings a larger scale of killing. This is all testable material, boys and girls.
My comment from the other article today:
“There is scale to this. When an individual seeks to be left alone, even confess support for Antifa during street actions they still get beat. This is just the next larger scale of that. The more Americans and America submit and seek agreement and compromise the more they attack. And the largest scale of submission will be millions bulldozed into open trenches and millions more sent to camps. America, sadly, still doesn’t understand what is being done to it, nor the enemy it faces.
There is only ever one solution to communism and that comes at 3200fps, your preferred velocity may vary, of course.”
On August 25, 2020 at 4:38 pm, Tom762 said:
Once again I affirm rule .308. Works every time!