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WASHINGTON, DC – During recent weeks, some of the country has been plunged into chaos and riots after the murder of George Floyd.  Protesters and rioters have taken to the streets in major metropolitan areas which have resulted in millions of dollars in property damage as well as several acts of violence and deaths. 

In response to the democratic leaders in these areas unable or unwilling to regain control, President Trump sent in federal police to protect federal property in those areas which were frequently attacked. 

Most democratic leaders throughout the country, including Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have cried foul and said that the President’s actions amount to a dictator. They’ve alleged that the federal police are nothing more than “stormtroopers,” a term used to describe Nazi soldiers. 

In response, Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, believes that federal police should sue Pelosi and others for libel after using the derogatory terms to describe them.

Whether or not any federal police officer files a lawsuit against Pelosi or any other democratic leader remains to be seen. However, it would appear that, by definition, Cuccinelli has a point. 

In an interview with Fox News, Cuccinelli said:

“When you see such libelous, slanderous comments from people who know better – let’s not kid ourselves, the Speaker of the House knows that she is using Nazi allusions to refer to correct, professional law enforcement officers.  If I was a CBP agent or ICE agent, or FBI agent, and if I was an FPS agent, I might sue for libel.” 

Pelosi had tweeted:

“The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order.  It is a tactic that is not appropriate to the country.” 

Democratic California Representative Maxine Waters tweeted her displeasure for President Trump’s actions, saying:

“Who are these people?  Why do they have these kind of uniforms on where they cannot be identified.  This is what you see in countries where you have dictators….who have paramilitary.”

Cuccinelli laid out his justification of federal law enforcement to protect federal property:

“We have a federal mission at the Department of Homeland Security, governed by statute – but we have also heard people say this isn’t constitutional.  So, we are not only within the boundaries of the constitution.  We have a statutory charge.  That is mission we are pursuing [in Portland].”

Cuccinelli continued and spoke about Democratic Mayor Wheeler, of Portland, who went into the crowd of rioters and protesters recently.  He did so in an apparent attempt to garner support from the crowd and show that he was also against federal police being there. 

Of this, Cuccinelli said:

“Any you know, we say Mayor Wheeler go out last night.  He is way out there – radical left…He has basically turned much of the city over to these violent criminals, and he has tied the hands of his own police department.” 

Cuccinelli said that seeing Wheeler among the crowd who heard people booing, making fun of him and calling for his resignation.  It would seem that even the rioters do not want him in power any longer, to spite all of the defunding of the police he has been doing recently. 

Cuccinelli advised that Wheeler’s actions reminded him of Russia before the Soviet Union was born:

“The right historical analogy has nothing to do with Germany but it has to do with the Bolsheviks.  Last night, the mayor was a Menshevik – the socialists who thought they can control that revolution and the bloodthirsty Bolsheviks came in and killed them all.  This mob is out for blood.  They are not there to protect the First Amendment or exercise First Amendment rights.”

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Here’s more on Wheeler’s trip into the sea of riots.
Looks like Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler caught the bad end of both the protesters (actually, rioters, if we’re being honest) as well as federal authorities on the evening of July 22nd.

Shortly after midnight on July 23rd, authorities declared a riot in the city.  

Mayor Wheeler just couldn’t catch a break between the evening of July 22nd and the early morning hours of July 23rd.

Reports say that a crowd of protesters booed him, chants for his resignation were screamed, and he even managed to get a fresh taste of tear gas when he antagonized federal agents.

When Mayor Wheeler was trying to gain the support from the crowd, he addressed the protesters saying that he was against the presence of federal law enforcement within the city, saying the following:

“I think what we’re doing tonight is actually the best thing we can do right now. Be here, be heard, be unified, and be clear. We didn’t want them, we didn’t ask for them, they’re not trained for what they’re being asked to do. And we want them to leave.”

Thereafter, the mayor was reported as addressing an even larger crowd, delivering the words that can apparently end racism:

“I am here tonight to stand with you. Black lives matter!”

Apparently, the mayor screaming “black lives matter” just wasn’t good enough for the mob (since, clearly, we’ve seen that’s not actually what they’re about). Now the mayor started saying that he was going to attempt to have federal agents removed from the city in an effort to appease the clamoring crowd.

Indeed – the crowd still jeered him and cursed at him repeatedly.  

But when Mayor Wheeler said he wouldn’t commit to abolishing the police – as the black lives matter crowd hosted a projection of their list of demands – he was admonished by the hoodlums even more.

Oh, and among those listed demands projected on the wall was the mayor’s resignation.

Despite his lack of support, Mayor Wheeler decided to join along with the crowd of miscreants to post up in front of the federal courthouse. The same federal courthouse that has had the likes of federal agents making sure that no more vandalism and rioting takes place on federal property.

Well, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what happened next.

Mayor Wheeler got a fresh taste of tear gas alongside all the others chanting and trying to tear down the fencing protecting the federal courthouse.

Even after trying to join in alongside the mob of miscreants – people still were giving Wheeler a hard time as someone from inside the mob threw something at the mayor.

After it was all said and done, Mayor Wheeler had had enough protesting for the night, and decided it was time to escape. However, the crowd was not feeling that in the least, and several people began crowding around the mayor and screaming – with some getting physically aggressive with his security details.

Yet, there are still people who claim that everything was sunshine and rainbows in Portland before the feds came in and started enacting arrests. People are pretending as if there wasn’t rioting in the streets before the feds came in.

Things have escalated to the point that outside observers can’t even tell what exactly the agenda is of these rioters in Portland – aside, perhaps, from perpetuating chaos.

Furthermore, people are starting to get tired of the “peaceful protest” clamoring- likening it to gaslighting whenever it is being spread online and in the media.

The notion of a “mostly peaceful protest” that people keep hearing about also happens to coincide with the same protests that turn violent, riotous, and ends in firebombs and vandalism. Ben Shapiro said it best when referring to how the media covers these protests:

“First of all, ‘mostly peaceful’ is the most — it’s the loosest, most loosely defined, arbitrarily applied term in history… O.J. Simpson was mostly peaceful that night — for like an hour and 15, he was really not peaceful — but for the other hours between sunset and sunrise, he was unbelievably peaceful.”

Shapiro continued his thoughts on the bad framing of what these protests really are:

“Like, I’ve never heard this term before, where a protest turns into a vast riot — you know, wrecking all of Melrose — and everybody’s like, ‘Well, it was mostly peaceful.’ Well, what the — what is that?”

Maybe Mayor Wheeler will have a different outlook on these rioters taking over the streets after getting a dose of how they truly feel about him.

Then again, maybe not.

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I am a proud husband to a wife who works in education and the father to two wonderful children. My first focus is on my family and spending time with them, my second is on my career. I am a current law enforcement lieutenant and have been an officer for over twenty years. Chris Elliot is a pen name for safety reasons.

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