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Portland Police Chief Bob Day apologizes for ‘exacerbating’ pain after ‘error’ in reporting on 2022 Normandale Park shooting

Portland Police Chief Bob Day released a video on Wednesday apologizing to far-left community members for how the bureau handled the 2022 deadly mass shooting at an organized Antifa demonstration at Normandale Park. However, his statement appeared to have been made on an inaccurate understanding of the event. Chief Day stated that the suspect launched an unprovoked shooting attack on “unarmed traffic safety volunteers.” The truth of the matter is that those “traffic safety volunteers” work directly with Antifa to illegally shut down traffic for their unlawful direct actions. Additionally, Antifa militants went to the demonstration armed and later urged their comrades to destroy evidence, as reported by senior editor of The Post Millennial Andy Ngo.

Chief Day, who came out of 2019 retirement to be the acting Chief of Portland Police in September 2023, wanted to clarify several alleged “errors” that were made in the Portland Police Bureau’s initial press release surrounding the Normandale Park mass shooting that he said “forever changed Portland’s history.”

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Share an ‘Offensive’ Joke? A State Bureaucrat May Ask You To Attend Sensitivity Training

We’re all familiar with the time-honored creed, “Snitches get stitches.” In states like Oregon, it turns out they get taxpayer-funded therapy. 

That’s according to the Free Beacon‘s Aaron Sibarium, who investigated the “bias response hotlines” popping up in states and cities across the country. In Oregon, for example, “trauma-informed operators” overseen by the state’s justice department field calls outlining “bias incidents”—cases of “non-criminal” speech allegedly motivated by prejudice or hate, like “racist images” or “offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity.”

Sibarium called the Oregon hotline to report a fictitious incident in which he said he was a Muslim concerned about the “genocide” in Gaza and felt “targeted” by an Israeli flag on his neighbor’s front door. It took just 20 minutes for an operator to log the incident in a state database as a “warning sign.” The operator went on to suggest installing security cameras. “He also informed this reporter that, ‘as a victim of a bias incident,’ he could apply for taxpayer-funded therapy through the state’s Crime Victims Compensation Program, which covers counseling costs for bias incidents as well as crimes,” Sibarium writes.

Similar reporting systems are up and running in Connecticut, Vermont, Philadelphia, and Maryland. In the City of Brotherly Love, residents can fill out an online form that asks for the “exact address,” name, and gender identity of the alleged offender. The city uses that information to “contact the offending party and try to do training so that it doesn’t happen again,” according to a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.

“The systems, which include hotlines and online portals, resemble the bias response teams commonplace on college campuses, which allow students to report each other, anonymously and without verification, for ideological faux pas,” Sibarium notes. “What sets the state-run systems apart are their ties to law enforcement.”

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Illegal Alien Previously Charged with Attempted Murder Stabs 86-Year-Old Man at Fred Meyer Grocery Store in ‘Sanctuary State’ of Oregon

Joe Biden’s America.

A previously deported illegal alien from Mexico with a long criminal rap sheet stabbed an 86-year-old man at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Clackamas County, Oregon last week.

Authorities arrested 31-year-old Jesus Ascencio-Molina last week after he stabbed an elderly man multiple times.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for his injuries.

“On Friday, December 27, 2024, at approximately 2:15 p.m., the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to an assault call in the 8900 block of SE 82nd Avenue in unincorporated Clackamas County. Witnesses reported seeing a man assaulting another man in a grocery store parking lot,” Clackamas County Sheriff said.

“When deputies arrived, they immediately provided lifesaving first aid to an 86-year-old man who appeared to have been stabbed multiple times. Witnesses reported the victim had been yelling for help and saw the suspect, described as a man wearing a brown puffy jacket, orange pants and white socks, running from the scene. Emergency medical personnel arrived and transported the victim to a local hospital for treatment,” the sheriff said.

“Before leaving, the victim was able to tell deputies that the suspect, who was unknown to him, approached his car while he was loading groceries when the suspect attacked him and tried to take his vehicle. When the suspect was unable to do so, he left on foot,” the sheriff said.

According to investigative reporter Andy Ngo, Jesus Ascencio-Molina is an illegal alien from Mexico who was previously deported.

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Portland DA Tries To Reduce Sentences For Convicts Days Before Tough-On-Crime Replacement Takes Over

Portland’s leftist district attorney is trying to reduce the sentences for several violent prisoners, including a convicted murderer just days before his tough-on-crime replacement takes over.

Mike Schmidt, district attorney of Multnomah County, was voted out of office on Election Day last month, but that has not stopped him from petitioning an Oregon judge to reduce or get rid of charges for eight people, some convicted of murder, violent assaults, or robbery, The Oregonian reported.

Schmidt will be replaced by Nathan Vasquez, who has promised a tougher approach to crime in the Portland area.

“These have all the appearance of a last-minute giveaway,” Vasquez said of his predecessor’s petitions for lenience. “They’re extremely violent individuals who have committed horrible crimes, and they’re being given some kind of a break.”

Vasquez starts his term January 6.

Districts attorneys and convicts can petition a judge together to reconsider a conviction and reduce a prison sentence, according to a 2021 state law. This can result in a judge releasing a convict from prison.

One convict petitioning the court is Frank F. Swopes Jr., who was convicted of murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and eluding police in 1993 when he was 30.

Swopes was convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman by asphyxiation as he and another person robbed her Portland home. She died after his fellow robber pushed her to the ground when Swopes said to “keep her quiet,” the case found. The robbers took her wedding ring and $8.

Swopes then robbed another 76-year-old woman a week later, tying her to a bed frame. He “terrorized” her until she gave him her ATM code, “touched her sexually” and took her robe off, “at which point she believed he either urinated or ejaculated on her,” documents say. Swopes had a cocaine habit, court documents said.

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Cattle Mutilation Case Reported in Oregon

Authorities in Oregon are investigating a curious case of a slain bull that bears the hallmarks of a classic cattle mutilation event. The unnerving killing, which occurred in late November at a ranch in the state’s Grant County, came to light last week when the animal’s owner spoke to a local media outlet about the weird incident. Choosing to remain anonymous, he indicated that the slaying featured several strange elements that appear to defy explanation but will sound all too familiar to students of the cattle mutilation phenomenon.

According to the rancher, the unfortunate bull’s snout, eyes, tongue, and reproductive organs had been seemingly skillfully removed. Meanwhile, there was no blood at the scene, scavenger animals showed no interest in the animal’s remains, and the area was devoid of any clues that a human could have been behind the eerie event. Grant County Sheriff’s Office deputies subsequently investigated the incident, though they have yet to issue any statement about the matter.

Ranchers in Oregon may understandably be worried that the November incident may represent a reprise of the cattle mutilations that have plagued the state in recent years. To that end, a 2019 case saw five animals slain in a similar singular event, while another rancher reported three separate downed animals throughout 2020. The following year saw multiple cattle mutilations reported in both March and August with the phenomenon last occurring in March of 2022 when another bull was downed under the same mysterious circumstances.

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Oregon sees record overdose deaths in 2023 despite national decline: report

Despite the US seeing an overall national decline in overdose fatalities Oregon experienced the second-largest surge in drug overdose deaths of any state in 2023, setting a record in the state. The findings come as Oregon has been one of the most pro-drug states in the country over the last few years.

Federal data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that roughly 1,880 people in Oregon died from overdoses involving opioids, stimulants, and other substances last year—representing a 35 percent increase from 2022 and setting a record for overdose deaths in the state. Only Alaska, with a 45 percent year-over-year increase, saw a sharper rise in 2023.

Nationwide, overdose deaths declined by 2 percent in 2023, dropping from 109,400 in 2022 to 107,700. This marked the first national decrease since 2018. However, Oregon’s overdose death rate has grown dramatically—by 237 percent since 2018—far outpacing the 58 percent national increase during the same period. 

Jonathan Modie, a spokesperson for the Oregon Health Authority, noted that preliminary data for 2024 indicates a possible decline in overdose deaths. 

“Our very preliminary 2024 data show Oregon is seeing a similar trend in overdose decrease,” Modie said, according to  Oregon Live, “but we are not sure why at this point.”

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Pilots report UFO ‘moving at extreme speeds’ while flying over Oregon

At least four pilots witnessed UFOs, some ‘moving at extreme speeds’ over Oregon this past weekend.

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson told DailyMail.com that at least one of the aviators ‘reported seeing unidentified lights while flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control (ATC) airspace’ during an alarming December 7th episode. 

While the administration would not confirm the presence of any FAA radar data that could corroborate the sighting, FAA ATC audio reveals the pilots in a state of shock.

An ambulance pilot stated he saw a bright light, ‘red in color,’ barreling towards his plane at ‘extreme’ speeds, before suddenly reversing course back toward the Pacific.

‘I don’t even know how to describe how fast it was moving,’ the air ambulance pilot, with Life Flight’s Air Medical Transport service, can be heard saying on the tape.

Later on Sunday night, December 8th, a United Airlines pilot reported an unexpected squadron of strange lights above the Eugene, Oregon-area, according to local news, which has long been a UFO hot spot along with the surrounding Pacific Northwest.

‘We’re seeing three or four targets. They’re all altitudes. Up and down,’ the United pilot told Seattle ARTCC (ZSE). ‘It’s pretty crazy.’

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Oregon School Staff Covered Up Pedophile Teachers’ Abuse For Nearly A Decade Until Viral TikTok Video Blew Lid Wide Open

A pair of teachers at St. Helens High School in Oregon were arrested last week on charges of sexual abuse taking place over the past nine years, and school administrators are being lambasted by the public for reportedly covering up the molestation.

46-year-old Eric Stearns, the choir teacher, and recently retired teacher Mark Collins, 64, allegedly sexually abused at least nine underage girls from 2015 to 2024.

According to KGW 8, school officials received complaints of sexual abuse in 2019, but seem to have ignored the allegations and never contacted law enforcement.

Furthermore, Stearns continued teaching after the school was notified police had launched an investigation against him.

The law enforcement investigation began shortly after a former student of the school posted a viral TikTok video in September accusing several teachers of engaging in illegal sexual activities with students when he attended St. Helens.

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National Guard troops on standby in Washington state, Oregon and Nevada as a precaution for ‘potential’ election unrest

Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington state and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials say.

Almost all the ballots set ablaze on Monday were in a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, while most ballots in a drop box in Portland, Oregon, survived a fire set the same day, election officials said. The incidents are believed to be connected to a third fire on October 8, also in Vancouver. Portland police released a physical description of a suspect but said they’ve not identified him.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee addressed the ballot box fires in a news release Friday announcing the National Guard being placed on standby, saying, “The southwest region of Washington state has already experienced specific instances of election-related unrest.”

Inslee did not disclose how many troops would be activated on Tuesday, but said they will be available to support law enforcement from Monday to Thursday, according to the news release.

The US Department of Homeland Security has warned that threats to “election infrastructure” remain high, Inslee added.

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What to Know About the Suspect Behind Ballot Box Fires in the Northwest

The man suspected of setting fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state is an experienced metalworker and may be planning additional attacks, authorities said Wednesday.

Investigators believe the man who set the incendiary devices at ballot boxes in Portland, Oregon, and nearby Vancouver, Washington, had a “wealth of experience” in metal fabrication and welding, said Portland Police Bureau spokesperson Mike Benner.

The way the devices were constructed and the way they were attached to the metal drop boxes showed that expertise, Benner said.

Authorities described the suspect as a white man, age 30 to 40, who is balding or has very short hair.

Police previously said surveillance video showed the man driving a black or dark-colored 2001 to 2004 Volvo S-60. The vehicle did not have a front license plate, but it did have a rear plate with unknown letters or numbers.

The incendiary devices were marked with the message “Free Gaza,” according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.

A third device placed at a different drop box in Vancouver earlier this month also carried the words “Free Palestine” in addition to “Free Gaza,” the official said.

Investigators are trying to identify the person responsible and the motive for the suspected arson attacks, which destroyed or damaged hundreds of ballots at the drop box in Vancouver on Monday when the box’s fire suppression system didn’t work as intended. Authorities are trying to figure out whether the suspect actually had pro-Palestinian views or used the message to try to create confusion, the official said.

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