Black Portlander Changes His Mind About the Nightly Protests After He Attends One

A Portland resident who is black and lives downtown a block away from the Justice Center thought the nightly protests had been completely peaceful. Then he attended one and had a rude awakening.

Gabe Johnson, a 48-year-old black man who served in the Marines, now says that Portland police should use any means necessary, including force, to sweep the riots off the streets and end the nightly violence.

In an interview with PJ Media, Johnson said he considers himself a patriotic American, and that the United States flag should be a symbol of unity for all Americans. He laments how some have turned it into a symbol of racism and division, especially in Portland.

Last Saturday night and into Sunday morning, Johnson says he was in bed trying to sleep, but the noise kept him awake. He counted 82 explosions disturbing his sleep. Then, with his air conditioning running and bringing in air from outside through the vents, he was suddenly immersed in tear gas from the street below. That’s when he decided to take action.

“You know, so I literally stood up and just yelled,” Johnson said in the interview. “‘Oh my God,’ I actually yelled. ‘Oh my effing God.’ It was just like somebody has to do something. I don’t know what that something is. I didn’t at that time, but I knew something had to be done and I figured I would just sleep on it.”

The next day he went down around noon to the ongoing protests in front of the Justice Center to hang a couple of American flags on the fence and start a dialogue with some of the protesters.

“When I woke up in the morning,” Johnson said, “it was clear as day, almost like it was just planted in my head. This is what you’re going to do. Hopefully we can start a conversation. Here we are now we are starting this conversation. But I can tell you the experience was eye-opening. I did not believe what I used to call the rhetoric about antifa. I was thinking that maybe they’re just, you know, some punk kids or whatever it was, some righteous anger in there. I quickly found out that that’s not the case.”

Having worked for the State Department after an eight-year career in the Marines, Johnson has done a lot of duty overseas. He says the antifa rioters in Portland use the same tactics he’s witnessed from terrorists. “They’re utilizing the same tactics that any other terrorist organization would,” Johnson said. “They’ve got spotters with cameras that will follow you around, and they’ve got their thugs. Those are the guys with the baseball bats. They have people that will intimidate you in Black Lives Matter attire.”

Johnson says his goal was to try to convince Portland protesters to stop tearing America apart, and to start bringing it together. “What is more patriotic than our flag?” he said. “What will really just be in your face, America? This is America, right? I wanted to have a conversation so that they would understand that what they’re doing is tearing the country apart and not bringing it back together, and hopefully by telling this community that we live in it’s time to start a conversation and it’s time to unite America. Because the Black Lives Matter movement has turned into something else. Antifa has attached itself to this movement now and it’s taken it over.”

It’s important to note that Johnson is no fan of Donald Trump, and is not a conservative. He considers himself a moderate. He also considers himself a patriot who is tired of watching America come apart at the seams. When he went to the protest, he did not encounter other patriots, but he did encounter protesters who aren’t from Portland.

“It’s beyond me how they can sit there and say that they’re not causing damage or rioting,” he said. “It’s a riot, and it’s real, and when you are on the front line and you’re looking back into that crowd, it is an angry mob that is built on doing as much destruction as possible.”

When he went down to the protest with his flags, Johnson expected to talk to people. He didn’t expect to be assaulted. Several people stole his flags and stomped them on the ground. One older black man, around 65 years old, grabbed one of the flags and handed it back to Johnson. A protester promptly punched the man in the face and ran off.

Reminder: This all took place in broad daylight, not at a late-night riot.

Johnson says protesters called him a coon, Uncle Tom, and the n-word—”with the -ER, not -a.” He has done several interviews this week because he wants the world to know that when leaders say that the federal law enforcement officers have caused the riots, and that the protests are largely peaceful, that’s a lie.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/07/24/black-portlander-changes-his-mind-about-the-nightly-protests-after-he-attends-one-n697027

Leaked Seattle Gov’t Documents Allege Justice System Is Built From ‘White Supremacist Culture’

Documents reportedly leaked from the Seattle King County Executive’s Office claim that the justice system is built off of “white supremacist culture,” white leadership, and racism.

The documents, obtained by Discovery Institute Research Fellow Christopher Rufo, come after Seattle put forward a plan that would drastically reduce funding for police departments and close a large county jail.

One document said that the structure of the juvenile justice system is “white leadership,” “white supremacist culture,” and “racial profiling.” It claimed that the “mental models” used within the system are “racism,” “white resistance (fragility),” and victim-blaming.

The “values and agreements” page listed six conditions, which said to “isolate race” and to “examine the presence and role of whiteness.” The document then goes on to list elements of “white culture,” which includes “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “politeness,” “worship of the written word,” and the “belief in objectivity.”

A section on outcomes defines “rights holders” as “most impacted folks (youth, Black & Brown communities” and asks “from the perspective of rights holders, what is the problem?”

In a list of “organizational issues to expect,” the documents listed both strong support and strong pushback from the community. “Stress, confusion, and a sense of overwhelm” should also be expected, according to the documents.

Seattle’s plan, which is supported by the majority of city council, would cut the police budget by 50% and close the county jail, which currently houses 60% of Seattle’s prison population, according to Rufo.

“The effects are actually quite simple,” Rufo said Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “When you have 50% fewer officers, when you have 60% fewer jail cells, you’re going to have a huge increase in crime.”

“For everything but the most serious offenses — murder, rape, armed robbery — people are going to be booked and immediately released back on the streets,” he added. “So you’ve destroyed any deterrent for criminal activity and what happens when you create a void of lawlessness, that will be filled very soon with violence, with disorder, and with mayhem.”

The King County Executive’s Office has not yet responded to a request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/25/leaked-seattle-documents-justice-system-white-supremacy/

https://archive.vn/MMBtd

https://christopherrufo.com/king-county-executive-offices-training-on-dismantling-the-justice-system/

Nancy Pelosi Has a Mental Breakdown on Camera, Starts Yelling ‘No’ at Reporter Over and Over

Nancy Pelosi is not well. The more I watch her on camera, the more I’m convinced of that. Whether it’s her incessant sucking on her teeth, the weird slurring of her words she often slips into, or instances like I’m about to share, this is a person who’s mentally not capable of doing her job anymore.

Today, Pelosi lost it when a reporter asked her about not trying to play social justice warrior with the latest coronavirus relief package.

Pelosi shouts “NO” 11 times after she’s asked to put vote-by-mail in a separate bill from economic relief: pic.twitter.com/0WyOVzZrUk

— Jewish Deplorable (Parler: TrumpJew) (@TrumpJew) July 24, 2020

At first, we see her on screen becoming very animated over being questioned on attempting to shove vote by mail and other “justice” (her words) related issues into the relief bill. Americans are hurting right now and need financial relief, and all Pelosi cares about is getting her pet projects done. It’s disgusting in its own right. Of course, her usage of the word “justice” is purposeful. It’s like a get out of jail free card for Democrats. As long as she says she’s fighting for “justice,” she can do whatever she wants and say whatever she wants, even if it means holding up a bill to save desperate Americans from financial ruin.

Regardless, it’s after Pelosi leaves the podium where things really get weird. You hear the reporter ask her a followup and she absolutely loses it. She starts to yell “no” at the reporter and then like a child not getting their way, begins to rapidly scream “no, no, no, no, no.” This is all happening just out of the camera’s line of sight as another House member attempts to talk. The awkwardness is hard to overstate.

This is the kind of berating of a reporter that a Republican could never get away with. Remember when Martha McSally had the audacity to call a CNN reporter a hack? That was a week’s news cycle culminating in multiple angry letters from various outlets and organizations decrying it as an attack on the press. Pelosi can shout down a reporter and berate her and it’s no big deal, though. You won’t see the media sleuths at CNN cover this because it doesn’t fit their narrative.

What Democrats are allowed to get away with continues to amaze me, but perhaps it shouldn’t. Whether it’s Pelosi getting away with her behavior here, or the more serious issue of her holding up the relief bill for partisan, nonsensical reasons, it’s always good to have a D next to your name.

https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2020/07/24/nancy-pelosi-has-a-mental-breakdown-on-camera-starts-yelling-no-at-reporter-over-and-over/