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Portland Fines Feds With Maximum of $500 for Every 15 Minutes Fence Remains Outside Courthouse
BY LORENZ DUCHAMPS July 29, 2020 Updated: July 29, 2020 Print
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The federal government will be fined for a maximum amount of $500 for every 15 minutes it maintains a fence around the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, which protesters have attempted to breach during nightly ongoing riots, officials in Portland said.

“As of yesterday, the federal government owes us $192,000 and counting,” City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, who oversees the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), said in a statement on Tuesday. She added that the city intends to collect.

The fence was initially erected around the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse last week to try to de-escalate tensions between rioters and federal agents as they launched projectiles and made attempts to breach and set fire to the courthouse.

The PBOT “filed a cease-and-desist letter” last week demanding that the federal government remove the “unauthorized fence,” according to the statement. Commissioner Eudaly said the fence is obstructing the city streets.

Eudaly said she is “committed to doing everything in [her] power to end this federal occupation and move forward with the reckoning of our community with racial injustice and our efforts. To transform our approach to surveillance and public safety.”

Democratic city and state leaders, including Eudaly, accuse federal agents of escalating violence in the city. But according to video evidence and officials, the officers and agents appear to be reacting to criminal actions by rioters, including damaging federal property and assaulting law enforcement.

Federal officials previously announced no response is necessary if crowds stay away from the courthouse and the new fencing, which violent demonstrators have repeatedly set fire to and attempted to damage before the barrier was erected; recently they’ve focused their energy on pulling the fence down with saws, ropes, chains, hammers, and other tools.

On Monday, a crowd of several hundred people blocked streets around the courthouse, a common occurrence, and spent hours yelling, chanting, banging on the fence, and throwing objects at the building. Just before midnight, rioters started launching mortar-style fireworks and some began climbing over the fence. Others used umbrellas and shields to cover a person trying to cut through it.

Eudaly said in her statement that only a few protesters have shown violence and these few actions should not negate the rights of others to exercise their freedom of speech and to peacefully assemble.

“The response of law enforcement should be proportional to the infractions. Indiscriminately tear-gassing and firing impact munitions at thousands of peaceful protesters is not a proportionate response,” Eudaly said.

Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said at the press conference earlier this month that the department fully supports and will protect those who wish to peacefully protest in Portland, but what officers are seeing every night “is the complete opposite.”

The unrest in Portland follows a daily pattern, according to Deputy Director of the Federal Protective Service (FPS) Richard Cline. From roughly 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., peaceful protesters assemble and demonstrate. After midnight, violence organized by agitators breaks out. The federal response to the violence has as a result been wrongly described as targeting peaceful protests, he said.

“What is occurring in Portland in the early hours of every morning is not peaceful protesting, these individuals are organized and they have one mission in mind: to burn down or to cause extreme damage to the federal courthouse and to law enforcement officers,” Wolf said.

“We see them planning their attacks, and yet the city of Portland takes little to no action to stop or disperse this crowd,” he continued. “These individuals carry lasers, baseball bats, explosive fireworks, metal pipes, glass bottles, accelerants, and other weapons all targeting federal facilities and federal law enforcement.”

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland) has demanded the resignation of Wolf, stating that “any person who oversees the kidnapping of protesters and the violent occupation of American cities has no place in our government,” pointing to the acting secretary.

Eudaly added that the city will be closely monitoring state and federal action and provide support wherever they can. She also said that normally the city “would send a maintenance crew or contractor” to remove an obstruction like the fence, “but I will not send workers into harm’s way,” she added.

Epoch Times reporter Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.

Just to put a face to this name...

Remember the nerdy fat chick in middle school who came in last in the talent show? Remember the sloth that ran for class president in high school and lost???


Well..... here is Chloe

This is tyranny? Oregon is taking shît from someone like this?

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Local ordinances do not apply to Federal Buildings, voluntary compliance. Also, if you want to sue the Federal Government, you need to get their permission first, I doubt it will be granted. Fugg Portland, I used to hunt with a bunch of guys from Portland, Viet Nam vets, hunters and as left as you can get with their politics!

Good luck with collecting on that.

This ^^^^^^ Ain’t gonna EVER happen.

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Laughing.

Just deduct the fine from any federal funding of anything that Portlandia gets- - - - -or better yet, just cut off any and all federal dollars the city receives for at least 10 years. Two can play at the fine game! A President can impound funds by executive order- - - - -no need to get congress involved at all.

In response, not one thin dime of any sort of federal funds should be released to that city.

Impose that for a year to start with, and see how well the state likes picking up the tab for their socialism.

That should include any $1200 stimulus checks they are waiting on.

Do away with Oregon's PILT as well.

But it's only a paltry $23M...

Greg Walden Announces over $23 Million in PILT Funding for Oregon

https://walden.house.gov/media-cent...nces-over-23-million-pilt-funding-oregon

Wonder how many in Portland are refugees from CA?

The problem with those folks, they leave a bad area, but take their leftist thinking with them to pollute their new home. Look out CO, ID, AZ, TX, etc...

Wouldn't it be nice if receiving states could make them sign a statement, agreeing to not import their left leaning thinking that screwed up the state they're leaving, because that thinking is what screwed it up in the first place.... That stuff spreads faster than Covid and with more dire circumstances...

How about you can move here, but you can't vote for 5 years....

That's logical, which means it probably won't have an affect on libs...

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Stupid portland.

Every decent man, woman and child, every viable business, the fire, emt and police departments, street and sanitation department ect. should leave these cities that encourage and allow Antifi/BLM to set up shop on their own. Let these idiots flounder without assistance and aid to wither and die.

She looks like a young Nadler.

Been saying this for years but now it's more appropriate........ How about mandatory random drug testing for anyone holding public office. Not being sarcastic; it's a requirement for folks who work in positions where trust, responsibility, and safety is paramount. Even I was subject to it when I worked in a power plant. Why not our public "servants" whom we are supposed to be able to trust, and who are responsible for public safety. Looks like the leaders of some of our major cities ought to be drug tested.

Trump needs to Tweet about Chloe's calves winning first prize in the State Fair competition.

Eudaly, is breeding bovin stock, only....

She is broke, pissed off, and a middle-aged Hag, who rents a dump in Woodlawn (da hood) Portland.

She despises people who have become successful in life.

Oh, and sadly, her son is broken, suffering from some birth disorder. Pity the kid for having a dumbfûck mom.

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Better yet just turn the turds back at the state line. Tell them you made your bed sleep in it but you ain't doing here.

Trump should move the Feds out in another month...Then watch the Fed building burn.

Excellent re-election material watching flames with 90 days before elections.

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These folks have smoked enough dope to have destroyed 85+% of their neurons. What's left are those that were useful to them as babies, crying, pouting, and throwing tantrums (or Molotov cocktails etc.). Next will come the spanking and it can't come to soon. JM

Maybe the feds should give Portland a bill for the damages and the expense of protecting the fed buildings since the city stood down.