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Oregon: Portland Police's Entire Rapid Response Riot Team Resigns after Officer Charged, Antifa Released

Kevin Downey Jr.-Opinion : Jun 18, 2021  PJMedia.com

"Unfortunately, this decorated public servant has been caught in the crossfire of agenda-driven city leaders and a politicized criminal justice system." -Portland Police Association

[PJMedia.com] Portlanders Get What They Voted For (Screengrab image: via Post Millenial)

You want the cops gone? Deal. Portland's entire Rapid Response Team, cops who volunteer for riot control duty, voted unanimously to resign on Wednesday, effectively leaving the city in the hands of antifa. The riot cops' decision follows the criminal indictment of one of their own for assault, stemming from a riot in August 2020, a police source told The Post Millennial.

On the night of August 18, 2020, antifa skirts threw a Molotov cocktail firebomb into the Multnomah County Sheriff's Department Headquarters as the Rapid Response Team struggled to contain the riot. Rapid Response Officer Budworth hit a rioter from behind with a baton, as seen in a video with no context whatsoever.

In a statement released after the indictment, District Attorney Mike Schmidt said, "In this case, we allege that no legal justification existed for Officer Budworth's deployment of force, and that the deployment of force was legally excessive under the circumstances."

"Now that the riot team is no more, we have no clue what's going to happen. We don't have enough patrol officers to be pulled from the road to handle huge crowds," a Portland police officer told The Post Millennial. "We are only backups with no gear like the riot team has"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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