Texts show collusion between Oregon police and far-right extremists - Polidicks

Texts show collusion between police and far https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-official-texts-show-collusion-between-police-far-right-extremists-n971926 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-official-texts-show-collusion-between-police-far-right-extremists-n971926

They need to suspend every officer that has interacted with them immediately.

It's just one of them, and it was a commanding officer. Might not be that simple.

This is what treason looks like.

A state rep from one state north wrote a manifesto detailing the creation of a Christian theocratic state which kills male infidels

I can see they thought The Handmaid's Tale was an instruction manual. If this is true, this puts a massive spin on everything that's happened in Portland involving Antifa.

If it were an attempt to get a handle on the group, then the commander should have informed his own higher ups on such an operation and it shouldn't have been such a horrific surprise to a councilwoman of that city.

Wait, was this that one protest where Proud Boys had stationed themselves on nearby roofs with AR15s and such?

Does he need to? The article states he did the same thing with Antifa.

Funny enough, sometimes the two shakes sync up and the page stays still.

Apparently not (dated 2017 whereas that protest was dated in late 2018) But that's still really fucking scary. Proud Boys should honestly be considered a fucking terrorist organization at that point if it's true, since the entire point of those weapons was to terrorize other people into not counter-protesting them.

some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

So is it confirmed that it was actually an intel-gathering operation or what

lol the people who are supposed to be "protecting us" right here

Suspend my ass, this should be illegal. They deserve jail time for this garbage.

I read the full release of the text transcript. It is a good deal more nuanced than "collusion" because the officer is largely "doing his job," but clearly tips Joey off when arrest warrants have been issued against his followers and intimates to him the differences between the police's relationship between Patriot Prayer and Antifa. In some cases he clearly gives details he shouldn't. I think that' incredibly emboldening to Gibson. Those are the standouts. Honestly what turns my stomach the most is all the chummy shit. Fuck that.

They were informing anti-fascists real time updates on their opponents movements and numbers, or discussing how to avoid getting arrested for an outstanding warrant? Did we read the same article? Because that goes beyond "gathering info" and "getting a handle". Attempting to contact is a bit different from the following: On Dec. 8, 2017, Niiya asks Gibson if Toese had "his court stuff taken care of," referring to an active warrant for Toese's arrest. Niiya goes on to say officers ignored the warrant at a past protest and tells Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest Toese 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 on Dec. 9. "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." Personally, I'd say there's a reason: Ledwith said the attack happened in a busy shopping area in Portland at around 2.30pm on Friday 8 June. Toese and two other men had been yelling at strangers from a truck, he said. “They were yelling: ‘Support Trump, build the wall,’” Ledwith said. Ledwith responded with a profanity, he said, and the men stopped their vehicle. Ledwith said Toese and another man, Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer supporter Donovan Flippo, got out. “They were calling me a faggot and slinging epithets at me,” Ledwith said. “Tiny walked over calmly and … punched me in the face. I’m like, half his size. I was not a threat to them. I’m 34 years old, not 17. This is not a thing that happens to me day-to-day.” Ledwith said the punch knocked him to the ground and opened a gash in his lip. He was treated at hospital, he said, receiving several stitches. A witness, who did not wish to be identified, told the Guardian she saw the attack from a block away. Toese, she said, punched Ledwith. Flippo, she said, stood beside Toese but was not physically involved. Ledwith offered no physical provocation, the witness said, and did not respond violently. This actively goes against PPB policy: Niiya also warns Gibson against bringing Tusitala “Tiny” Toese to a Portland rally, since there was an active warrant for his arrest. In short, Niiya was actively helping Toese avoid arrest. This appears to contradict PPB's "Dissemination of Information" directive, that states: "Members shall not provide information directly or indirectly that may enable any person to avoid arrest, punishment, or to conceal or dispose of goods, money, or other valuable things stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained." This isn't standard procedure, or gathering intel. The recorded text conversations show an unprecedented level of access between a member of the public and a police officer. Gibson regularly texts Niiya asking him to investigate people based on comments made on Patriot Prayer's Facebook page, or on a video a member of Patriot Prayer took of a member of antifa. They also denied these records existed. Draw whatever conclusions you want based on the above, but I don't see how this is possibly coaxing them to gather more intel, or "standard procedure". The only person defending PPB's actions is their lawyer during the period under question, statements that have since been contradicted. I live in Portland. Knowing our history. None of this is surprising. Like, the time an officer was nailing up plaques honoring Nazi war criminals in a park. Not only still a police officer, but he's been promoted multiple times up the chain of command, all the way Captain, and in charge of entire precincts and divisions. Or what about the time a LARPer was helping the police arrest an anti-fascist protestor. Or, going back a bit, the time police ran over opossums and placed them on the porch of a black owned restaurant. Or the time they didn't do anything about that cache of guns on a rooftop that patriot prayer had set up, actively keeping it a secret, even from the mayor? I could bullet point incidents, but the point is there's a pattern here, a well documented and lengthy one. And sure, one not unique to Portland either, but one people seem shocked to hear is present in this city. To elaborate on that last sentence. Portland is the whitest city in America per-capita. When you live here, you get to listen to everyone brag about how woke they are, and how accepting a place this is, all in spite how homogeneous the population is and how easy it is to accept others when everyone is just like you. People get this impression that we're a liberal progressive bastion free from prejudice, and we aught to pat ourselves on the back, go us! As a result, not enough gets done, because people are content and think we're already "there". That is, until you bring up the history of this state, and suddenly the stages of grief begin with lots of denial. During Oregon's founding, we voted against slavery by a vote of over 2:1! How ahead of our time, right? Except the only reason we voted against slavery was because people wanted Oregon to be a "white haven", and in the same ballot voted to exclude any African-Americans from the state by a vote of over 8:1, by punishment of lashings. Hence, to this day black people are seen almost a novelty here. This may seem like a long time ago, so surely the impact it's had should be negligible by now, right? But these things have a strong ripple effect that can be felt today. Here's a few articles on this history that I'm talking about. Semi-lengthy reads, but good ones. Legacy of a hate crime: Mulugeta Seraw's death a decade ago avenged In the shadow of a racist past, Portland still struggles to be welcoming to all its residents The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America Okay, so, I'm starting to veer off topic and rant. But I kind of needed to vent about this. I'm a bit tired of folks bragging about how conscious they are of pronouns and saw a bird land on Bernie's podium, but don't know a lick of their own history, or the kind of underground movements present in this city. For me, that's more frustrating than people dismissing this one instance of favoritism (in a long history of favoritism) by pointing out they "tried to contact the other side".