Portland Mayor Wheeler's blatantly political statement and press conference was an apologia for do-nothingism on steroids

Mayor Ted Wheeler wheeled out a bunch of Democrat Party talking points against President Trump before he gave the first of very few details about last night's killing of an apparent Trump supporter in Portland, Oregon   


Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell spoke at the same press conference on Sunday afternoon.  He said police are continuing to seek information as they investigate the shooting of a man in a downtown area not far from where competing demonstrations, one a pro-Trump car caravan and another a counter-protest by various opposing groups  ---  he would not be any more detailed than that.....


Once Red Ted Wheeler was off of his Democrat talking points, he betrayed his more radical sentimentality strongly supporting the long-term street demonstrators in Portland  ---   he described those hooligans and brigands as  ---  all those in this generation who have been called upon to stand up and speak out against the systemic injustice in this country

The entire tenor of the Portland officials' presentations and answers to questions indicates that there is an aggressive, strong and continuing anti-Trump bias at the local level in Portland.....  That bias obviously extended to pro-Trump demonstrators from a time before their caravan arrived at Portland,  extending through the killing on one of their number by local left wing storm troopers, that continues after the killing.  Implicit in all of the remarks of the mayor and the police chief was a presumption and policy determination that local left wing demonstrators had a supervening right to protest.  Any other demonstrators were immediately cast in a suspect class of counter-demonstrators, whose rights were immediately deemed to be subsidiary to Portland's interest in protecting its local left street players.

It has been reported that,  the killing of the pro-Trump supporter occurred when a group of left wing "demonstrators" block the exit of the pro-Trump caravan from the downtown area. A mele soon erupted during which the Trump supporter was shot and killed.

The Portland Police Chief refused to confirm any detail connected to the killing of the man the night before.....  He said that he did not know exactly what groups might have been involved in the street confrontation where the victim was killed  ---  he even said that it might have been an incident of one-on-one violence.