So, Attorney General William Barr did not do anything about what happened on Sunday night in Portland.
Instead, the actual DA of Portland has come forward and said he’s going to do something.
Truck Driver Assaulted in Downtown Portland https://t.co/aizVDhWFYO pic.twitter.com/A0jA2EV2qU
— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 17, 2020
PPB Assault Detectives are actively investing this alarming assault. If anyone has information about this event please contact us. Public safety is up to all of us. https://t.co/A04MYkblc1
— Chief Chuck Lovell (@ChiefCLovell) August 17, 2020
Who knew there was a DA in Portland?
KATU:
Portland police officials say they are investigating a violent assault caught on camera Sunday night that sent a man to the hospital with serious injuries.
The incident happened at about 10:30 p.m. a couple blocks from the Multnomah County Justice Center. A 911 caller reportedly said protesters had chased a driver in a white 4×4 pickup, who eventually crashed near Southwest Taylor and Broadway. The caller then said that “protesters drug him out of his car” and started “beating the guy.”
Video from a witness shows several people beating the driver unconscious after pulling him out of the truck. Police are investigating, and are still trying to find out what happened before the truck crashed.
First responders took the man to a hospital, where he is expected to survive his injuries.
Here’s the full statement from the Multnomah County District Attorney:
Assaults will not be tolerated in our community. The videos recently posted to social media that show a person being violently pushed to the ground from behind and another person being kicked in the face are extremely concerning. The actions depicted in these videos are universally rejected as wrong – and the actions are illegal. I condemn this violence. Assaults on community members and police officers undermine everything our community is doing to bring meaningful and lasting change to the criminal justice system and beyond. My office is coordinating with law enforcement regarding their investigations into this type of assaultive behavior. Assaults and other violent crimes will be prosecuted when the evidence supports such action. If you have information on these or other crimes, please contact the Portland Police Bureau or Crime Stoppers of Oregon. – DA Mike Schmidt
For now then, firebombing federal buildings is allowed, but it looks like we are drawing a line at attempted murder.
However, the reason that it looks like that is not that this is what actually happened.
The line is actually being drawn specifically at “attempted murder that is on a video that goes viral.”
No one actually believes that if the thing had not been on video, or if Twitter had managed to remove that video before it went viral, this black would actually be prosecuted for the attack.
What this means is that if Kamala Harris wins the election, and social media is locked down even more than it already is, with people being charged with crimes for posting videos of blacks attacking people, murder will be legal.
We all know that this is going there.
Watching this local Portland news report from Monday night may in fact be the single most surreal experience of my entire life.
I just hope that all of you understand: we have crossed the threshold.
We are never going home again.
It is 8:42 AM EST at time of writing and I just went over to the Twitter account of Donald J. Trump, American President, to see if he’d tweeted about this attack, and found only a sick burn of Michelle Obama.
….My Administration and I built the greatest economy in history, of any country, turned it off, saved millions of lives, and now am building an even greater economy than it was before. Jobs are flowing, NASDAQ is already at a record high, the rest to follow. Sit back & watch!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2020
I’m just going to assume he just only woke up an hour ago and somehow didn’t see the thing from Portland last night.
He should be calling a press conference to speak specifically on this attack. The Democrats have just given him a very large gift horse, and it simply isn’t imaginable that he is going to stand there looking at its mouth while issuing sick burns to Michelle Obama whose DNC speech wasn’t watched by even 3% of the people who watched the video of the Portland beating.