From Daily Caller: Portland, Oregon, now has a county prosecutor throwing the book at the city’s famously raucous protesters after his predecessor neglected cases.
Most protesters arrested near Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the past six months have faced charges from Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez’s office, according to court and police records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Vasquez’s tough approach appears to be a gift to Portland’s critics — from locals to President Donald Trump — who see a tolerance for lawlessness at the city level since 2020’s fiery Black Lives Matter riots caught national attention.
Vasquez replaced George Soros-backed leftist Mike Schmidt, who rolled out a policy in August 2020 to not prosecute several protest-related crimes. Under Trump’s second term, Portland’s city council has publicly thanked protesters for defying his “fascist agenda” while Democratic Mayor Keith Wilson’s administration imposes guidelines for city workers to protect migrants from ICE. The surge in rioting came after Trump launched mass deportation efforts that have swept through so-called sanctuary jurisdictions such as Portland.
Now that Multnomah County is “prosecuting people for everything,” there is a “noticeable” difference, the report states, noting that protests are being attended by less than a dozen agitators each night at the ICE building, according to a Portland police officer.
“I had one specific case the other night and they issued immediately,” the unidentified officer said. “Vasquez isn’t screwing around.”
The officer said that “the amount of shenanigans has slowed to nearly a stop” at the ICE facility.
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