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Alex Zielinski
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Fun facts: Saturday's Proud Boy protest cost Portland taxpayers an estimated $2 million & cost downtown businesses at least $3 million in lost revenue.
Which is exactly what the alt-right interlopers wanted. Per Proud Boys' press release: “The gathering was never about bringing carnage or violence to the City of Portland, it was about financially crippling the progressive hotbed until they take action against antifa."
I asked Mayor Wheeler to respond to this threat. He... kind of did?

Wheeler: "I have one message to anyone who says they’re going to continue wasting the city’s resources over & over again: Stop wasting our time. Stop wasting taxpayer dollars. Stop hurting our businesses."
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Alex Zielinski
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I am breaking my twitter hiatus to express my deep disappointment with how the City of Portland chose to scold journalists for sharing public information instead of admit that cops probably shouldn’t be helping violent activists avoid arrest. portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/…
There is a way to explain how Niiya’s texting doesn’t violate bureau policy while also not condemning the first amendment. 🤷‍♂️
K bye back to vacation.
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Alex Zielinski
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Mult Co DA's office sends a press release correcting PPB's press release—where they incorrectly call a 'bias crime' an 'intimidation crime,' and don't include gender identity as a protected class. (These changes were adopted in April 2019.)
Five minutes later, PPB re-sends their original press release—nothing changed. Can't tell if it's MCDA shade or just a mistake. Either way, PPB is referencing outdated law.
Yes, this is the kind of riveting drama I live for.
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Alex Zielinski
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In what world does the EIC not get alerted to an op-ed espousing white supremacist views before it goes to print? (The day before a national election, no less.)
The central argument of the piece, currently on newsstands across Canada:
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Today, mass mobilizations are taking place in #Portland against threats from #ProudBoys that they will once against attack members of the public on the streets + in Burns, #Tennessee, where members of KKK and neo-Nazi groups are holding a conference with full police protection.
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Portland has been freaking out over @wweek's biased story that @PortlandPolice colluded with right-wing extremists. That is disinformation. The mayor excoriated our law enforcement for the standard practice of communicating with protesters on both sides. oregonlive.com/crime/2019/02/…
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This is the type of street anarchy that routinely happens where I live. Here is video from 6 Oct showing Antifa directing traffic in downtown & threatening people who don’t obey with violence. Mayor @tedwheeler, who really runs this town?
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At #Portland rally, Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer called for immigrants heads to be "smash[ed]...into the concrete," seen giving Nazi salutes and screaming racial slurs. They don't just want to fight 'the Left,' but attack broad segments of the population. itsgoingdown.org/in-portland-pa…
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