In Portland, protests have raged after the shooting of two suspects being pursued by ICE officers. Media accounts immediately portrayed the shooting as excessive force on a Hispanic couple in their car. Later, Portland Police Chief Bob Day admitted that they withheld the suspected gang associations of the couple despite the early misleading accounts. Wiping away tears, Day said that he did not want to contribute to the “injustice.”
DHS officials say Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras are Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens and are believed to be members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua.
Moncada allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was arrested. However, the Biden Administration released him despite his record. At the time of the incident, he had a final order of removal.
Zambrano-Contreras was the passenger in the car and allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2023. She was also released during the Biden Administration. She allegedly “played an active role in a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring” and was previously accused of involvement in a shooting in Portland.
The ICE officers said that they wounded the two after they tried to run over officers. They were later found by the Portland Police Bureau and taken to a hospital.
DHS called the description of the two injured as a married couple “REVOLTING LIES,” declaring that “the two criminal illegal aliens who attacked Border Patrol in Portland are a gang member and his prostitute, NOT an innocent ‘married couple.’”
The shooting immediately triggered protests given the prior shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Press and politicians pounced on the story as an example of excessive force.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek held a press conference to express outrage over ICE being in the city. It did not seem to matter that the suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates were accused of trying to kill officers. Wilson declared that you simply cannot believe what ICE says in such incidents.
Kotek denounced the shooting as “instigated by the reckless agenda of the Trump administration.”
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., rushed out a comment on X, stating that “I’m monitoring the first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I’ll keep you updated, but Trump’s deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence–and must end.”
In his press conference, Chief Day admitted that the Portland Police Department hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection because it did not want to be accused of “historic injustice of victim blaming” by law enforcement.
Day then began to cry as he attempted to speak to the Hispanic community, declaring that “it saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger.”
Day’s admission seemed to be brushed aside by the media. There was little concern that a police chief admitted to withholding information that would have supported ICE and contradicted misleading accounts fueling the protests.
The fear of contributing to, or being accused of, the “historic injustice of victim blaming” should not be the basis for withholding clearly material information from the public as protests erupted around the city. Whatever the investigation will show on this shooting, the public should have been informed about what was known about the status and relevant record of the two individuals.
The advantage of fueling rage politics is that the facts can become immaterial. It did not appear to matter that these suspects were criminal aliens who may have been trying to kill ICE officers. Even admitting those facts seems too much for the Chief of Police in having to apologize to the community. To quote Chief Day, “It saddens me.”
No need to imagine what life on Main Street will be like if the Socialist Democrats control Congress AND / OR the White House. It will be (on steroids) what it had been (under Biden).
Bob Day is a disgrace to public service. Nowhere in his oath of office was he asked to swear to mislead the public out of his personal concern for historic injustices. That said, the misplaced allegiance he demonstrated in his reckless comments represent the real reason he was hired for the job four years after he pensioned out at a reported $156k a year. So what did the fine citizens of Portland get for putting another $276k a year in Day’s pocket? A self-professed expert (founder of Reluctant Change) on using “humility, curiosity, empathy, and hope as a vital pathway to managing change and leading effectively.” Imagine how Portland’s top weenies reacted to that line of crapola? They must’ve melted.
And just think, the Founders gave Americans:
The Nation, The Law, and The Citizens
“Free White Person(s)”
What the —- happened to the America of its Founders?
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
It is possible to want the (current) law diligently enforced, and be race-blind in its application. I think that’s where the majority of conservatives are. Our laws were upgraded for post-racial values in the mid-60s….60 years ago.
It’s worked pretty well, except for the sick multi-culturalists and reverse-racists, who aren’t anywhere close to a majority — more like 10%.
When I see your frequent postings, I want to ask: Do you really imagine reversing 150 years of Congressional lawmaking, and somehow getting back to a predominantly white America? Or, is it just nostalgia on the part of someone whose social sphere has never included normal, patriotic black, brown, or Asian Americans?
Say more about yourself, and why you aren’t down with sharing America with other Americans?
As a trial lawyer I have no soul. Therefore, to me the solution is simple. If I was in charge, I would hold a press conference and announce to all the world that from this day forward ICE will not arrest any illegal aliens in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle or New York, regardless of the crimes they have committed. This should serve as a magnet for all of the criminal illegals Biden let into the US, drawing them away from states and cities in which they face the prospect of arrest and into their blue heavens. This solution rewards the blue cities who are run by people like Chief Day giving him, for example, the opportunity to stop crying by letting the criminal illegals rape and rob and steal to their hearts’ content while allowing others in law abiding cities and states to live in peace.
If there were a civil war today between the woke lefties crew and conservative American citizens it would be over in a week. It would go down in the history books as the battle of Trannyville. Where instead of blue coats, the Conservative Republican Guardsmen faced off with 200,000 of the screaming Karen Bluehairs. The Bluehairs choice of weapons, small arms, milkshakes, SUVs, Minivans and their phonic instruments of incessant high pitched shrieking. The Guard would overwhelm and destroy the enemy quickly by simply by using chemical weapons, consisting of testosterone bombs and other hormone therapy weapons. There is no consideration of rape and pillage of the enemy ranks in this war, for they typically have nothing of value and by all definitions, they are the unfukables.
A possible playwrite in the making?