Portland Mayor Wheeler asks U.S. Attorney to de-deputize PPB officers as federal marshals

https://katu.com/news/local/ma...eputize-ppb-officers

PORTLAND, Ore. - Days after members of the Portland Police Bureau Rapid Response Team were deputized through the end of 2020, Mayor Ted Wheeler is asking the U.S. Attorney to withdraw the designation.

Mayor Wheeler released this statement Tuesday night:

“Portland is fortunate the Governor and the Multnomah County Sheriff helped protect public safety this weekend, including by federally deputizing some Portland Police officers. Now that Governor Brown’s executive order has expired, I’ve asked the U.S. Attorney’s office to withdraw the designation.

A key feature of the designation is that anyone who assaults a federally deputized official could be subject to federal charges. Fortunately, I am confident the Multnomah County District Attorney will continue to prosecute anyone who assaults or otherwise harms police officers or others. I take assaults against our officers seriously and so does the district attorney. We need to end the violence. Anyone engaging in illegal violent behavior, regardless of their beliefs or position, must be held accountable.”

According to the U.S. Marshal's office, they haven't yet received a request from the Mayor. In an email, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshal's office said simply "The U.S. Marshals Service has not received a request to terminate the deputization of any officers sworn in the previous weekend."

The Department of Justice says that since protests began in Portland, nearly 100 people were charged with a federal crime. Most of the charges are assault on a federal officer or civil disorder. According to the DOJ, a civil disorder charge faces a maximum punishment of five years in jail. But the punishment can last longer than that.

"There’s the possibility of expungement for convictions in the State of Oregon, in contrast, in the Federal system, there’s no statutory authority for expungement. So if you get a conviction, even a misdemeanor conviction, absent of any extremely compelling circumstances, you’ll have that conviction in your record," explained Justin Rusk, an Associate Attorney with Janet Hoffman and Associates. "There are certain rights that are lost that are more easily be regained under a state crime, for example to serve on a jury, firearm fires, your right to vote. A federal conviction, even a misdemeanor conviction, will go with you and can impede a lot of those functions."

What the local and state governments are doing are downright criminal.

Video shows man pistol-whipping LAPD officer in police station, pointing cop’s gun at him

https://www.latimes.com/califo...nside-police-station

A security video from inside the Los Angeles police station where a veteran officer was attacked this weekend shows the officer get knocked to the ground and repeatedly pistol-whipped with his own gun before the attacker points the gun at the officer’s chest at close range.

The video, obtained by The Times, reveals for the first time the full and potentially deadly nature of the Saturday night attack on the 37-year department veteran inside the Harbor Community station in San Pedro.

Police sources said investigators believe that the man repeatedly pulled the trigger, creating a clicking sound each time, but that a safety mechanism on the gun prevented it from firing — saving the officer’s life.

A whole lot of wrong revealed in that video.

LEO is very fortunate to be alive.

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What the local and state governments are doing are downright criminal.

In my view, what's even more criminal is that the business owners, taxpayers, and regular people in Portland haven't gone to Wheeler's office, drug him into the street by his hair, and told him to leave and never return.

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Video shows man pistol-whipping LAPD officer in police station, pointing cop’s gun at him

https://www.latimes.com/califo...nside-police-station

A security video from inside the Los Angeles police station where a veteran officer was attacked this weekend shows the officer get knocked to the ground and repeatedly pistol-whipped with his own gun before the attacker points the gun at the officer’s chest at close range.

The video, obtained by The Times, reveals for the first time the full and potentially deadly nature of the Saturday night attack on the 37-year department veteran inside the Harbor Community station in San Pedro.

Police sources said investigators believe that the man repeatedly pulled the trigger, creating a clicking sound each time, but that a safety mechanism on the gun prevented it from firing — saving the officer’s life.

WOW that was intense.

One comment thought that didn't look like security video. there was too much movement ....so who shot that video?

Man who ambushed and shot the 2 deputies in CA a few weeks ago arrested.

Compton man arrested, charged with attempted murder in ambush shooting of 2 deputies

https://ktla.com/news/local-ne...deputies-in-compton/

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced Wednesday that a suspect is in custody in the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton earlier in September.

The suspect was identified during a 10 a.m. news conference as 36-year-old Deonte Lee Murray of Compton.

Murray has been charged with premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer and possession of a firearm by a felon, a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office stated.

Investigators believe Murray is the person seen on video walking up to a patrol car outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center on Sept. 12 and opening fire on a male and female deputy before fleeing on foot.

Both deputies were struck by the gunfire and aided each other while they waited for help.

The 31-year-old female deputy was struck in the jaw and the 24-year-old male deputy was hit in the head, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has said.

Both were hospitalized in critical condition and have since been released to continue their recovery.
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Murray is also believed to be involved in a Sept. 1 carjacking and robbery that occurred prior to the shooting.

He was arrested in connection with that incident on Sept. 15, three days after he allegedly shot the deputies.

At the time, the Sheriff’s Department told the media Murray was not a suspect in the shooting of the deputies.

He was charged with carjacking, second-degree robbery, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and attempted murder in the carjacking incident on Sept. 17.

He also faces allegations of association with a criminal street gang and discharging a rifle inflicting great bodily injury in the carjacking incident.

Investigators later linked Murray to the shooting of the deputies and charged him, Homicide Bureau Captain Kent Wegener said.

No motive for the shooting was given, “other than the fact that he obviously hates policemen and he wants them dead,” Wegener said.

Murray is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday. Prosecutors are recommending bail be set at $6.15 million.

If convicted as charged, Murray faces a possible maximum life sentence in state prison, the DA’s Office stated.

^^^^ good news

Seems the Biden campaign hag gotten themselves into some hot water.

https://amgreatness.com/2020/0...in-anti-trump-video/


An attorney representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who fatally shot two agitators, and wounded another during a violent riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has vowed to sue Joe Biden and the Biden/Harris Campaign for libel.

President Trump “is not Biden’s biggest problem,” attorney L.Lin Wood declared on Wednesday.

Biden, in an effort to paint President Trump as a racist supporter of white supremacism, tweeted out a video montage of alleged white supremacists that included an image of the 17-year-old Rittenhouse carrying an AR-15 rifle in Kenosha during the August 25 riot.

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One comment thought that didn't look like security video. there was too much movement ....so who shot that video?

It's security camera footage. Someone just took a handheld smartphone video of the computer screen on which the footage was being replayed.

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Biden, in an effort to paint President Trump as a racist supporter of white supremacism, tweeted out a video montage of alleged white supremacists that included an image of the 17-year-old Rittenhouse carrying an AR-15 rifle in Kenosha during the August 25 riot.

IIRC there was something Biden mentioned Kenosha last night during the debate about Rittenhouse/Proud Boys and the white supremacists..

more on Deonte Lee Murray

https://losangeles.cbslocal.co...a-deputy-in-compton/

Sheriff Alex Villanueva and L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced the arrest of Deonte Lee Murray at a news conference Wednesday morning at LASD headquarters in downtown L.A.

The 36-year-old Murray has been charged with two counts each of premediated attempted murder of a peace officer and possession of a firearm by a felon. His photo is not being released to protect the ongoing investigation. He is being arraigned Wednesday.

Murray was arrested on Sept. 15, three days after the deputies were shot, but in connection with an unrelated carjacking and shooting which had occurred in Compton on Sept. 1, Lacey said. Forensic evidence later linked him to the shooting of the two deputies.

A ghost gun used in the shooting of the deputies was recovered by investigators, sheriff’s Capt. Kent Wegener told reporters.

Furthermore, Murray fled the scene of the deputies’ shooting in a black Mercedes Benz sedan, the same vehicle which Murray had carjacked on Sept. 1, Wegener revealed.

On the evening of Sept. 12, the two sheriff’s deputies who were shot in an unprovoked ambush while sitting in their patrol car in Compton.

In the Sept. 1 carjacking, which occurred on Bradfield Avenue in Compton, Murray shot a man in the leg with a high powered rifle and stole his Mercedes

“The carjacking suspect’s photograph, when compared to the suspect’s image in the surveillance video of the attempted murder, strengthened the possibility that he was involved,” Wagener said.

Murray was arrested Sept. 15 following a 10-hour standoff. At around 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, detectives located Murray, but he fled in a 2006 Toyota Solara. During the pursuit, he threw a pistol from the car.

He then ditched the car in the 3100 block of Carlin Avenue in Lynwood and ran. Law enforcement officers swarmed the area. Several hours later, just before 10 p.m., Murray was found hiding in some bushes and was apprehended, Wagener said.

Meanwhile, the stolen Mercedes Benz was also found nearby.

Wegener said that ballistic and forensic evidence from the scene of the deputy ambush linked it to the ghost gun which Murray had thrown from the car during the chase.

“It was determined through ballistic comparison, that the pistol recovered was the pistol used to shoot the deputies, additionally that pistol was conclusively linked through forensic testing to suspect Deonte Murray,” Wagener said Wednesday.

Murray’s ghost gun was loaded with eight rounds when it was recovered, Wagener said, and the gun is capable of holding 13. There were five shots fired at the two deputies on the night of the ambush.

Wagener defended the department’s decision not to immediately bring charges against Murray following his capture, even though detectives suspected he may have been responsible for the ambush shooting.

“At the time of the arrest of Deonte Murray on Sept. 15 following the vehicle pursuit…we had no evidence that he was responsible for the assault on our deputies,” Wagener said.

“There was insufficient evidence to support an arrest, much less a criminal filing for the charge of attempted murder on a peace officer and to label him in the media as the person responsible,” Wagener added. “Additionally, bringing the public focus on him at that point in the investigation may have influenced the pending witness interviews.”

Along with the charges in the ambush, Murray has also been charged with one count of attempted murder in connection with the Sept. 1 carjacking, along with second-degree robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. He also faces allegations of association with a criminal street gang, discharging a rifle inflicting great bodily injury and personal use of a rifle.

Murray has an extensive criminal history that includes convictions for sales of narcotics, firearm possession by a felon, burglary and terrorist threats. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted as charged.

Thanks to private donations, the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the ambush was estimated at over $700,000.

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Police sources said investigators believe that the man repeatedly pulled the trigger, creating a clicking sound each time, but that a safety mechanism on the gun prevented it from firing — saving the officer’s life.

"With the officer on the ground and the assailant standing over him, the man grabs a 9mm Beretta handgun the officer is carrying in a holster, tugging at it."

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No motive for the shooting was given, "other than the fact that he obviously hates policemen and wants them dead[.]"

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Murray has an extensive criminal history that includes convictions for sales of narcotics, firearm possession by a felon, burglary and terrorist threats. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted as charged.

Ah, yes, he's a Comptontutional scholar.

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WOW that was intense.

One comment thought that didn't look like security video. there was too much movement ....so who shot that video?

Thought the same, maybe a phone but we didn't see a lot of the floor and no people so I'm guessing it's a motion sensor camera or had someone running it.

Shouldn't someone be monitoring those cameras in a police station, or are they just there to collect film in case something happens.

You'd have thought with cameras there that the response of the other officers would have been quite a bit quicker....

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Shouldn't someone be monitoring those cameras in a police station, or are they just there to collect film in case something happens.

When they put up cameras at my old department, it was a direct reaction to a female officer saying a male officer sexually accosted her in the back hallway. (Turns out she was in hot water and tried to throw the IA lense at someone else) The cameras went up the next day. No one watches them. They were for proof after the fact.

There was cameras in the interview rooms and were turned off and on by the officer running the interview and there was a place for others to view during the interview.

There were cameras outside of and inside the property room, but those were only viewed when something was thought to have happened.

/drift

Possession of a firearm by a felon. So you're telling me those strict california gun laws don't work?

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Thanks to private donations, the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the ambush was estimated at over $700,000.

Did any of the loud-mouthed Hollywood people contribute to that fund? I seem to remember James Woods pressuring Hollywood to do so.

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In my view, what's even more criminal is that the business owners, taxpayers, and regular people in Portland haven't gone to Wheeler's office, drug him into the street by his hair, and told him to leave and never return.

I can not understand that either. Hordes should be outside his office demanding he resign and thrown out of town.
I just saw that Wheeler is now calling for an end to the Federal "Deputizing" of officers. He was all in favor of it when he thought he could use it against counter protestors to blm/antifa thugs, but he realized that it is good for one year and just how easy it is to bypass the local corrupt prosecutors to prosecute them.

And the US Attorney has denied the mayor's request to rescind the deputization.

BREAKING: US Attorney for Oregon rejects Portland mayor's demand to remove deputized status of police officers


https://thepostmillennial.com/...s-of-police-officers