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Paranoid schizophrenic sets up sniper nest in his apartment, starts shooting at the walls (January 10)

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – A man was arrested after firing off a rifle multiple times through the walls of neighboring apartment units in Southeast Portland and causing extensive damage to the building Sunday.

Portland Police Bureau officers responded to shots fired in the 1200 block of Southeast Morrison Street just after 5:39 a.m. When they arrived, they hear gunfire and a fire alarm coming from a second-floor unit in the building. Officers spoke to the suspect using a loudspeaker and ordered him to come out unarmed.

The suspect, David Yaron, 31, was taken into custody without incident.

Once inside the apartment, officers found bullet holes in the walls and the ceiling. Police said neighboring units were hit, but no one was injured.

Officers found the gun fired staged in an elevated position to where officers outside were and a drum magazine that holds more than 50 rounds attached and loaded. Police said there were multiple rifles, handguns and body armor inside.

“It’s not clear what this suspect had planned, but the possibilities are chilling,” said Chief Chuck Lovell. “The officers who responded to this call worked seamlessly in a chaotic environment to resolve what could have been a tragic event. I thank them for their bravery, and I’m relieved that no one was hurt.”

Yaron was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on 14 counts of reckless endangering and 15 counts of discharge of a firearm in the city.

So, this being Portland, he’s released on bail. He was caught yesterday after failing to appear for his court date (January 21). New details emerged.

Court documents state Yaron was in an “excited manic state” and “sweating profusely,” as he told officers he believed neighbors were spying on him and that cameras and recording devices had been put in his walls. Yaron also stated he thought people were trying to kill him and that there were three “shadows” in his apartment that he shot at, intending to kill them, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Yaron was indicted by a grand jury on one count each of unlawful use of a weapon, recklessly endangering another person and discharging a firearm in the city. He was initially arrested on 14 counts of reckless endangering and 15 counts of discharging a firearm in the city.

He posted bail Tuesday, with conditions including reporting to Pretrial Release Services, not possessing weapons and not entering the scene of the shooting.

Yaron was scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment Wednesday, but he did not show up.

A bench warrant was then issued for his re-arrest.

By Thursday morning, investigators said they located Yaron, but no further details were released about his location. He appeared in court Thursday for an arraignment on his indictment. 

He pleaded not guilty. He was not listed on the Multnomah County Jail website Thursday afternoon. 

It’s not really clear he’s actually back in custody, in other words. I’m sure he is, but this again is Portland.

Brent Weisberg, Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office communications director, issued a statement about this case after Yaron failed to show up in court Wednesday, saying, “Charging decisions are carefully made by considering whether a case can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt using all available evidence submitted to the district attorney’s office and the current state of the law. In Oregon most people have a constitutional right to post bail, and the court can and does order conditions of release narrowly tailored to protect public safety based on individual case facts, as they did with this case.”

If I was conspiracy-minded I might think they were leaving crazies like this guy out there so they can go after things like bail–and guns.

Another possibility is that our progressive prosecutors are being consistent in “reimagining” justice to keep blacks out of jail–better to let one white crazy go free than to lock up a hundred black thugs.

Grand Theft Karen

BEAVERTON, OR (KPTV) – A woman has her son back, after a thief stole her car with the child inside.

Police responded to a business on the 11900 block of Southwest Canyon Road at around 9 a.m. Saturday.

A woman said she went into Basics Meat Market to quickly grab a couple of items, and left her 4-year-old son in the car with the engine running.

While she was inside the store, a man got into the car and drove off.

The woman told FOX 12 the man then drove back to the market and yelled at her, threatening to call the police because she left her son in the car. The man ordered her to get her son out of the car, and then he drove off again.

“As moms we get really busy and we think we’re just running in for a second and this is just a perfect example of just letting our guards down and how terribly it could have ended, so I’m just thankful that he’s OK and it was so stupid and I’ll never do that again, but it’s that split second decision that could just change everything,” the woman told FOX 12 on Saturday.

She said the boy was not harmed during the ordeal.

Police are looking for the suspect and the vehicle. The suspect is described as a white man in his 20s or 30s with dark brown braided hair. The car is a 2013 silver Honda Pilot with Oregon plates 357GLV. Anyone with information is asked to call Beaverton police.

“I’m seventy-five years old.”

I don’t know why I was surprised. The homeless man was emaciated, of course. The crooked teeth protruded from his hollow-cheeked fish-mouth like a picket fence being pushed up from below. The greasy cork-screwed gray hair sticking out the sides of his filthy cap comically resembled Orthodox sidelocks–I swear I almost asked if he was Jewish.

But it was his manner. He was one of those who retained a youthful attitude–I don’t mean this in the strictly positive sense one would normally use when saying “youthful attitude”, for this common condition I fear I have acquired. Some proper maturity is forfeit to it. The young don’t trust it, or they view it as a sort of cultural appropriation. The old disdain it. But for him, cheerfully joking about living rough on the streets at 75, it might be heroic.

I could barely understand him. He was sitting alongside a memorial for Oregon’s volunteers in the Spanish-American War–a tall obelisk, where you can still see the shadows of sand-blasted graffiti–keeps the anonymous soldier atop safe from toppling. He’s forever charging into battle with his rifle, despite taking repeated hits like the blue paint splatters on his pants.

“Who is that up there?” He asked as I recorded the sight on my phone.

“Just a soldier. Nobody in particular”

“I thought maybe he was…” His voice was low and his speech slurred; the last part slid beneath the level of comprehension. I didn’t ask him to repeat himself.

“You know about the guns?” I pointed at the old Civil War era howitzer behind him. “Says it was used at Fort Sumter.”

“Yeah, it’s pointed at my back.” He joked. Most of what he said I couldn’t understand, but I just let him go on. He said he’d been an early computer programmer, that he’d built a house once. He lamented this or that missed investment. Here and there he gave evidence he was in fact educated. I tried asking him how he ended up on the street; I don’t think he understood. He started telling me a story from that long past.

“…this black guy, asked for two fives for a ten…” he wheezed a little in laughter “…then he grabs my wallet!” He smiles, as if to say, can you imagine that?

He’s like a regular guy locked in a crazy suit–there’s definitely a psychological defect that put him here, but it isn’t psychosis–his grasp of reality is as good as any. Whether that is a curse or a blessing for him I don’t know.

“It’s okay, I’m a medic”

Police responding to a rollover crash in Portland’s Wild, Wild East were initially blocked from the scene by an antfia mob that had been gathering nearby at Irving Park, preparing to march on the ICE facility at the waterfront, where they tangled with DHS troops to kick off the Biden years.

On January 20, 2021, at about 5:17 p.m., Portland Police responded to a single vehicle rollover crash near Northeast 6th Avenue and Northeast Fremont Street. A planned event was underway at nearby Irving Park. People from the gathering in the park descended on the crash, climbed on the vehicle, and appeared to begin trying to get people out of it.

As officers arrived, in response to community calls for their service, people from the crowd shouted at them delaying their efforts to assist whomever was in the vehicle. Responding officers had to call for assistance just to make the scene safe. Assisting officers arrived and created space enough for the first officers to assist with the crash. The circumstances of the crash are under investigation. There did not appear to be any injuries.

“Hey that’s my bike”

Earlier two bike cops got too close to the antifa gathering and one got his bike stolen.

On January 20, 2021, Portland Police Officers went to the area of southeast Portland in the area near Southeast Stark Street and Southeast 14th Avenue. Recently, a group has been advertising a gathering at Revolution Hall which discouraged live streaming or “peace police.” Similar rhetoric on fliers in the months preceding led to events that were punctuated by violence and destruction.

At about 2:45 p.m., a few officers on bicycles rode onto a parking lot on the south side of Revolution Hall. Dozens of people pressed in on the officers and then took one of the officers’ bicycles. Other officers came to assist. Within a few minutes, police recovered the bicycle and tried to leave the property to the south. Many in the crowd began blocking or stopping officers as they attempted to leave. Some officers had to push people away with their hands so they could leave

Standoff (January 17)

PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — No injuries were reported after a nearly 12-hour standoff between Clackamas County police and a suspect in Damascus.

County deputies first engaged with the suspect at about 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, and later arrested John Redenbo, 59, who was wanted for a parole violation stemming from an assault charge. Upon arriving at Redenbo’s residence on Old Barn Lane in Damascus, deputies saw Redenbo go inside and barricade himself. Deputies were unsuccessful in their attempts to contact Redenbo.

At about 6 p.m., two people came out of the house. One of them was identified as Sade Cleora Geraldine Hollis, 29, of Damascus, who had a warrant for failing to appear on an identity theft charge in Washington County. The other person was not identified.

Based on the situation and the seriousness of the criminal charge, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Special Weapons and Tactics team responded to the scene at about 7 p.m.

Members of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Crisis Negotiations Team responded to the scene as well and began attempting to communicate with Redenbo. They were initially able to speak with someone inside the residence, but Redenbo ignored their attempts to speak with him.

At about 3:30 a.m., SWAT team members were able to take Redenbo into custody without further incident. He was transported to the Clackamas County Jail and booked on a no bail parole violation. Detectives are now investigating possible weapons charges against Redenbo.

Death by gun

Officers responded about 7:45 p.m. Sunday to a call in the 3200 block of Southeast 90th Place and found the body of 31-year-old Samuel Feltis, who had suffered what police called “traumatic injuries.”

After an examination, the state medical examiner ruled that Feltis had died of gunshot wounds, police said.

Back in December OPB reported

With less than two weeks remaining in 2020, Mayor Ted Wheeler, Police Chief Chuck Lovell and Office of Violence Prevention Director Nike Greene announced preliminary plans to try and curb a dramatic increase in shootings and homicides.

The plan, announced Friday evening, calls for more detectives to be assigned to investigate and follow up on shootings, and more outreach and hospital-based trauma responders to be deployed when someone is shot. The mayor has also asked the Police Bureau and Office of Violence Prevention to submit budget requests to better allow those agencies to respond to gun violence.

The announcement comes months after an Aug. 6 press conference when Wheeler promised a plan was imminent to address a problem that was ballooning as early as March, when the city recorded a 150% increase in shooting injuries.

So far this year, there have been 858 shootings in Portland, with 224 people shot and 39 homicides involving a firearm, far outpacing previous years. Now, as a year many hope will be a statistical outlier in nearly every way comes to a close, there is little consensus as to what should be done to address the problem — and concern that the spike in shootings may not be an aberration.

Abolitionists have been pointing to the increase beginning in March, two months before the Summer of George kicked off. We’ve had eight months of increasing violence since then.

It appears March through April 2020 was in fact a bloody stretch, but we can see the long term trend line for the year is upward slightly, from 33 to 41, before all BLM hell breaks loose.

OPB has been awful and the author of this piece particularly so.

In August, two months into near-nightly racial justice protests, an embattled Wheeler was in the midst of a narrowing reelection campaign. With gun violence surging, the mayor and City Council were facing criticism from many in the Police Bureau for dissolving their gun violence reduction team.

“Those were decisions that were made outside of the Police Bureau and they’re having a very direct impact on the lives of people here in the city of Portland over the past three weeks,” said then Assistant Chief Andy Shearer, days before his retirement in August. “And there are people that have been shot and people that have been killed, and that very well may not have occurred had we still had a GVRT in place over these last three weeks.”

Shearer called the spike “staggering and unacceptable.”

Experts say it is critical to intervene to stop cycles of retaliatory violence, which supporters of the GVRT claim was an aspect lost when the police unit disbanded.

“Right now, in the city of Portland, there is no uniform component that is contacting any of the subjects involved in gun violence or any of this back and forth retaliation stuff,” said Sgt. Ken Duilio, one of the former gun violence prevention team members who is now working in the detective division. “Let’s not get rid of the unit focused on gun violence, because then people are running around the city completely unchecked, involved in the back and forth. The city is becoming a shooting gallery.”

Of particular concern, Duilio said, is the increase this year in people injured by gunfire. Some months in 2020 saw a 200% increase in shooting injuries, a hit rate increase Duilio attributes to more people being involved in each incident. In previous years, finding 40 to 50 casings at a shooting was considered very high.

“Now, we’ve had several between 60 to 80 and we had one that had 151 casings,” he said. “You might have a shooting that has on one side three or four shooters, and on the other side three or four shooters. And they’re all shooting and they’re all emptying their clips.”

The problem abolitionists have with police gun units is that they take so many black men out of “the community”, which is of course exactly how they work to lower violence, which is not the work of criminal masterminds a la The Wire, but the chaos resulting from black America’s perverse honor culture of petty insults and retaliation. Somewhere a cop described the strategy as getting people off the streets until whatever personal beef dies, so to speak, down.

The reality is police are saving the thugs from themselves. One wonders why at this point.

OPB is having none of that cause-and-effect business.

“I think that narrative — ‘Is this due to the pandemic? Is it due to disbanding the GVRT?’ — I think are false narratives,” said Portland State University criminology professor Brian Renauer. “There is something that was occurring before both of those happened.”

Renauer said the key to understanding the data and formulating solutions is to understand the population most impacted and involved in gun violence.

Between April 2019 and June 2020, the California Partnership for Safe Communities and the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform were hired to work with the mayor’s Office of Violence Prevention to do an analysis of gun violence in the city.

That report found the Black community is disproportionately impacted by gun violence, making up 50.7% of the victims and suspects. The report also found that less than 8% of the victims and suspects were under 18, contradicting a long-held assumption that gun violence is perpetrated by and impacting young people.

Instead, the report found the most impacted age group is 25- to 34-year-olds. That data point supports one of Renauer’s theories: that the recent upward homicide and shooting trend isn’t related to the current economic downturn. Instead, he points to the 2008 recession.

Renauer said high concentrations of people living below the poverty line, high rates of unemployment and other socioeconomic indicators often correlate to higher rates of neighborhood violence. But, Renauer said, changes in those indicators can be slow to manifest.

“Maybe we’re actually feeling the ramifications of the struggling economy in the early 2010s that impacted families, impacted the youth growing up in those families,” he said. “And now, we’re seeing the repercussions of it as those youth are now in their teenage and young adult years.”

There is no reasoning with these people.

ICE, ICE, Bebe (January 13) Immigrations and Customs Enforcement managed to deport a foreign criminal, somehow:

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Federal officials have deported a man convicted of attempted murder in Salem.

Abel Rojas-Hernandez, 57, was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1996. Details about the decades-old crime were not immediately available.

Rojas-Hernandez was released from Oregon Department of Corrections custody in November 2020 and has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma ever since, authorities said.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents transferred Rojas-Hernandez to the custody of Mexican authorities on Tuesday, officials said.

The Tacoma Washington ICE office is the same attacked by an overaged antifa gunman in August 2019 before before he was gunned down in what was an apparent suicide mission. He left a note

“I regret that I will miss the rest of the revolution. Doing what I can to help defend my precious and wondrous people is an experience too rich to describe. I am Antifa.”

A year and a half ago many probably scoffed at the idea this man was part of a genuine “revolution”.

Debbie’s Feverish Men Behind Bars Story

Last month, Multnomah County Deborah Kafoury pressed Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to prioritize vaccinating people in prisons and jails.

Prisons and jails throughout the state and country have been centers of some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks. And Kafoury made a moral and practical case for prioritizing a population that won’t win any popularity contests with the public.

“We were heartened by a state process you have described as being centered in an ‘equitable system challenging the roles of power, privilege and racism,”” Chair Deborah Kafoury wrote on Dec. 22 in a letter to Brown, obtained this week by WW. “So we are frankly alarmed and dismayed that the actual allocation prioritization as described omits people in our communities who have experienced the most disproportionate rates of infection and death and who deal with long-standing inequities in health care and health access. Among the most egregious examples: a prioritization that brings law enforcement to the forefront, but not those in law enforcement custody whose infection rates nationally are up to four times the general population.”

The East-Side is for Homi-cide

On January 17, 2021, at approximately 3:38 a.m., officers from the East Precinct responded to a call of a shooting in the 14300 block of Southeast Division Street. Upon their arrival, officers found two victims who were deceased.

Detectives from the Homicide Division are on scene and investigating. Cause and manner of death will be determined by the Oregon State Medical Examiner at a later time and date. Additional information will be released at the direction of the investigators.

The PIO [Public Information Officer] is not responding to the scene.

Portland Police’s handy Dashboard graphs the justice-y goodness of life post-George:

Mob tries to free knife-wielding crazy from police (January 15):

A protest that formed around a crisis call involving a man holding a knife downtown prompted a call for help citywide.

On Friday, January 15, 2021 at about 1:00p.m., Central Precinct officers responded to a welfare check call outside an apartment building in the 300 block of Southwest 4th Avenue. The call indicated that a man had jumped from a second story window of the building, pulled out a knife, and began waving it around at people and cars going by.

The 30-year-old man showed arriving officers his knife, held it to his neck, and said he would kill himself if they came any closer. An Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team (ECIT) officer began a dialogue with the man in crisis, while other officers attempted to clear the area hoping to reduce the stress of the situation. The officers learned that the man was schizophrenic and extremely paranoid. He not only threatened to kill himself, he said he would hurt others as well. Rather than rush in, exacerbating a dangerous situation, officers slowed down, kept their distance, and exercised patience and de-escalation.

The negotiation lasted for about 90 minutes before two separate crowds of protesters began showing up to the north and south. Some in the crowd began chanting, and one even started using a bullhorn. The extra noise and distraction made it impossible for the specially trained officers to speak to the man. Officers implored the crowd to stop interfering, but their energy only increased. Even when the suicidal man’s mother arrived and begged the crowd to stop, most in the crowd continued. Some in the crowd began threatening the officers. A supervisor requested resources citywide, and all available officers responded from North and East Precincts. This caused a major resource drain citywide and all but the highest priority calls had to wait. The officers had to don helmets and face shields to protect themselves as they stood in front of the hostile crowd.

The officers consulted with the Crisis Negotiation Team, whose members were able to find a mental health professional familiar with the man. They learned that the man could be a threat to himself and violent toward others. After over 3 hours of negotiation, the incident commander set into motion a plan to take the man into custody. A K9 unit was used to divert his attention by barking so officers could safely approach him. A Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW, or Taser) was used to prevent him from using the knife, and he was taken into custody and transported by ambulance to a hospital. Besides the punctures from the CEW probes, he was uninjured.

Ironically, the Portland Police are actually highly trained for dealing with the mentally ill, and the “crisis intervention team” and strategy they cite above, which the crowd tried to disrupt, was adopted in compliance with a settlement agreement reached with Obama’s Justice Department and was crafted by the “experts” of progressive police reform. The same people who now call for police abolition.

That’s also been my personal impression having spent a lot of time downtown, having seen countless interactions between cops and crazies. If anything their hand is too light. I once literally dragged a desperate homeless man having some sort of psychotic episode out of a store after he knocked over a woman trying to get behind the counter; police arrived hours later, catching up to him at a gas station nearby. After ascertaining no one was injured, they let him go on his way.

Police interaction with Portland’s vibrant mentally ill community has long been a vector of attack on the system for the local progressive project to abolish the police. In 2011 an obliging Thomas Perez, number two in Eric Holder’s Justice Department initiated a “pattern and practice” investigation against the city–in a press conference attended by the mayor and police chief. Seattle was another progressive city that just happened to discover an intolerable police brutality problem at the same time it acquired an ambitious progressive ally in the White House. Senators Ron Wyden and Earl Blumenauer joined with city and police commissioner Dan Saltzman in writing to the Justice Department in early 2010 requesting an investigation after police called to check on a suicidal man armed with a gun shot and killed him, before any local investigation had concluded.

Unsurprisingly the Justice Department found a “pattern or practice of using excessive force in encounters involving people with actual or perceived mental illness”, after an 18-month investigation.

In this case the man was still armed with a knife three hours into the scene and had to be subdued with tasers. Excessive use of tasers was another charge leveled by the DOJ after their investigation. The local left is wallowing in their affected outrage over the incident, and of course the use of police dogs.

Blame Wonder Woman: She-ooter Arrested (January 15)

PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman was arrested in connection with a shooting investigation in southeast Portland Wednesday night.

Officers were first called to the 100 block of Southeast 146th Avenue just before 10 p.m. on January 13 on reports of shots heard.

RELATED | Police respond to several shootings in Portland, one left 3 hurt

According to Portland police, a victim had been assaulted but was not hit by gunfire.

Police arrested 33-year-old Lakecia Dean on charges of attempt murder, unlawful use of a weapon, and felon in possession of a firearm.

This incident was one of several shootings in the Portland are Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

He-shooter arrested

On October 31st, 2020, at approximately 3:37 p.m., East Precinct officers responded to the 1600 block of Northeast 66th Avenue on reports of a large disturbance where someone had a gun. Officers arrived on scene and learned there was an exchange of gunfire between unknown males at Northeast 66th Avenue and Northeast Broadway Street. There were no victims injured, however, several occupied residences and parked cars were struck during the shooting.

Officers assigned to Portland Police Bureau’s Assault Detail were briefed on the case and assumed the investigation. A suspect was identified in the incident and officers obtained a search warrant for the residence the suspect was staying at in Estacada.

In the early morning hours of January 15, 2021, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office’s SWAT team served the warrant on the suspect’s residence and he was arrested without incident. During the search, which was conducted by PPB’s Assault Detail officers, handgun ammunition and body armor was recovered.

39-year-old Gregory Allen Green was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, and Possession of a Loaded Firearm. Green has also had multiple felony convictions in the past, including a recent federal conviction as a felon in possession of a firearm.

Lazy Escape

MARION COUNTY, OR (KPTV) – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to locate an inmate who walked away from the transition center.

The sheriff’s office said Mathew Mungenast, 20, walked away from the Marion County Transition Center, located at 3950 Aumsville Highway Southeast in Salem, on Thursday morning.

Mungenast was in custody for second-degree theft and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.

Simpout, Chimpout:

CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR (KPTV) – Three teens were arrested following what the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office is calling an impromptu home invasion robbery.

On Jan. 4, just after 12 a.m., deputies were called out to a report of a robbery at the Townhomes with a View apartment complex, located at 9840 Southeast Talbert Street in Clackamas.

The sheriff’s office said three people, ages 19-22, share the apartment and one of the roommates had invited an 18-year-old woman from Salem to visit the apartment. According to the sheriff’s office, the roommate reportedly only knew the woman via Snapchat and had never met in person.

The woman arrived to the apartment with three men, identified as Daetrayl Berry, 18, Andrew Scott Luhr, 18, and Emmanuel Petry, 18, all from Salem.

The sheriff’s office said the roommate was not aware that the woman would be accompanied by the three men.

During the visit, the sheriff’s office said the men became aware of several firearms at the apartment and they decided to steal the firearms in what appears to be an impromptu home invasion robbery.

After the woman left in a white sedan around midnight, one of the suspects picked up a pistol belonging to one of the roommates, held it to the head of another roommate, and threatened to shoot, according to the sheriff’s office.

Berry, Luhr and Petry then stole two Glock pistols, a .22 Ruger bolt-action rifle and an AR-15 rifle. The suspects left the apartment and fled on foot.

After the victims called 911, deputies arrived to the scene and located the suspects. The sheriff’s office said the firearms were not located on them.

Deputies, along with K-9 Coda, searched the area. The sheriff’s office said K-9 Coda located the firearm hidden below a structure and under some leaves.

According to the sheriff’s office, the serial numbers had been scratched off one of the weapons.

The woman who was invited to the apartment is being followed up with, but is not facing any charges at this time, the sheriff’s office said.

And she skips along, leaving a trail in her wake. Remember boys, if she sounds too good to b e true, she might show up with a few dindus.

Portland’s Parkrose neighborhood, enjoying its liberation from the police, is getting so lively it’s getting deadly (but no fatalities, today):

On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 1:38a.m., North Precinct officers were dispatched to several reports of shots heard in the area of Northeast 111th Avenue and Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Officers arrived and located evidence of gunfire. They learned that the victims drove off before police arrived.

A short time later, officers learned that two adult male and one adult female victims with gunshot wounds had arrived at a local hospital. Two had minor injuries and one had serious injuries.

There is no suspect information to release at this time. Assault Detectives are investigating.

The dispatch goes on to list what has become a nightly tally of gunfire in Portland’s east.

It was another busy night of shooting events. All of these cases are under investigation.

At 2:40p.m., North Precinct officers responded to a report that someone fired a shot into the air in the 4400 block of Northeast Cully Boulevard (case number 21-11741).

At 9:08p.m., East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots heard in the 3100 block of Southeast 136th Avenue (21-12094). Evidence of gunfire was found. No evidence that anyone was injured.

At 9:56p.m., East officers responded to a report of shots heard in the 100 block of Southeast 146th Avenue (case number 21-12117). They located a crime scene in a nearby apartment. A victim had been assaulted, but the victim was not struck by gunfire. An adult female suspect was detained.

At 11:13p.m., officers from North Precinct responded to a call of shots heard at Northeast 8th Avenue and Northeast Tillamook Street (case number 21-12169). They located evidence of gunfire and obtained some information that possibly two vehicles were driving through while occupants shot at each other.

At 12:52a.m., East officers responded to shots heard in 3100 block of Southeast 136th Avenue (case number 21-12214). They located evidence of gunfire but no strikes.

At 12:59a.m., North Precinct officers responded to the 12000 block of Northeast Thompson Street (case number 21-12218). Officers found evidence of multiple firearms being discharged. Three occupied houses were struck by bullets, one which had a 14-year-old and a 7-year-old inside. Another house had a round pierce a bedroom where a couple was sleeping. Three cars were also struck by gunfire.

Violent crimes are on track to double or more this year after the summer of BLM rioting and the police abolition movement that still dominates city politics. Applying Sailer’s Law of Lead factoring in the poor marksmanship of thugs we can assume, say, a doubling of gunshot wounds reflects something like a quadrupling of shots fired. Portland’s east is becoming Scarface’s Miami without the cocaine and pastels.

The City Council voted in June to dissolve the PPB’s Gun Violence Reduction Team amid nationwide protests for racial justice after the death of George Floyd. The GVRT came under fire for allegedly targeting members of the Black community at a disproportionate rate. Portland saw 99 shootings the following month compared to 35 in July of 2019, according to police data.

And shooting scenes have been getting larger.

“In the 10 years of working in gun violence I would say if we had a shooting at 40 or 50 casings, that was a lot,” said Duilio.

A 23-year-old Uber driver was shot in the head on Saturday in Northeast Portland on his way to pick up his next rider. Police said at least 60 shots were fired at his car.

The Uber driver was likely mistaken for a rival gangbanger, police say. His story passed like a faint wisp in all the handwringing about the class of poor, vulnerable youths who killed him in an act whose savagery is excelled only by its astounding stupidity. Antifa zombies won’t be chanting the Iraqi refugee’s name, Dhulfiqar Kareem Mseer, and they’d be relieved to know it, if they cared to know it. I’m still waiting for a “victim” of “racist” police to appear on the scene with both the perfect story and the most impossible name. “Say his name! Shitavious Imkwametrious Jackson!”

Gun crimes are up after the city disbanded its Gun Violence Reduction Team, because it was too effective–meaning it put too many black gunslingers in jail. The Oregonian reported (paywalled and not found elsewhere) yesterday Mayor Ted Wheeler, having changed his posture from prone to defiant regarding the police abolitionists’ movement after winning re-electon and, I suspect, consulting internal polls revealing how little genuine popular support for abolition there is, quietly tried, unsuccessfully, to reinstate the program recently but found no support. Party on, Portland.

One problem is the money looted from disbanding the gun unit was transferred to police abolitionist councilmember Jo Ann Hardesty’s Portland Street Response program sending social workers in place of police to presumptively non violent domestic and mental health calls. No, Portland isn’t crazy (pardon the phrase); we’re not sending the social workers in to deal with the gunslingers formerly dealt with by police. We just don’t send the police in to deal with the gunslingers any more. The gun unit was abandoned without an argument in the heady days of June–no one even bothered to argue whether or not it was effective; that it put black “men” in prison was the only question or concern, publicly.

Wheeler’s failed, secret attempt to reinstate it as a mayor with weak powers demonstrates the power progressives wield in opposition to public interest or opinion, despite only having one remaining hardcore advocate in Jo Ann Hardesty sitting on the council.

The city pulled back from gutting the police to the tune of fifty million (the police budget’s around 250 million) when they held the whip hand in the summer–I suspect because they weren’t positioned to redistribute that much cash to their own programs, such as Street Response. Even Hardesty voted against cutting that deep. They weren’t going to eviscerate the police just to save the city money, after all.

Well the abolitionists still hold the whip hand and the political wind is behind their back (but still not, curiously, popular support, which is trumped by demands made on behalf of the small and dysfunctional “Community”–Portland’s long suffering and long insufferable, blacks). It is in this clownvironment, along with collapsing revenues and morale, that the police union is negotiating a new contract:

When negotiators for the city of Portland and the Portland Police Association resume contract negotiations Wednesday, they will be stepping into an arena that has changed dramatically since negotiations paused in February due to the pandemic.

They’re going after the police union, the office of which has been a regular target of antifa (this is from OPB, which has been positively soviet in its coverage):

At the heart of the current debate about how to hold police more accountable is one document: the police union contract. Advocates for changes in policing say the Portland contract has been carefully constructed over the years to shield officers from discipline and prevent the public from knowing when officers are disciplined.

They also say now is the time to make significant changes.

Despite my conviction there’s no popular support for the abolitionists after the summer, Portlanders overwhelmingly voted for new police oversight and the ridiculous new woke District Attorney Mike Schmidt.

Negotiations over the police union contract are expected to come into direct conflict with the will of Portland voters, who passed a measure in November to create a new police oversight board with an overwhelming 81% of voters supporting it.

Among other changes, the new board would be empowered to investigate deadly use of force and have the ability to fire officers. That’s proving to be a sticking point before contract negotiations have started.

Two days after the election, the police union filed a grievance with the city and police bureau, arguing that the proposed oversight board violated state law mandating that disciplinary practices, among other things, must be negotiated with union representatives.

“The City is well-aware that it cannot escape its bargaining obligations by sending mandatorily negotiable subjects, such as a new disciplinary system for (Portland Police Association) members, to voters for a (city) Charter change without first reaching agreement with the PPA over those changes,” the grievance reads.

Unite Oregon, a coalition of people aimed at improving racial and economic justice for people of color, immigrants, refugees and people from low-income backgrounds, issued a statement outlining demands for the upcoming negotiations. The statement, with more than 30 signatories, voiced support for organized labor and the importance of negotiating working conditions. But, the statement rejected the notion that accountability and oversight constitute working conditions.

Unfortunately this argument will stand easily enough with the help of a friendly judge or two, though I fail to see how the system of discipline one works under isn’t in fact the ultimate working condition.

Another day another shooting in Portland’s east:

One person is dead following an early morning shooting in northeast Portland on Tuesday, according to police.

Shots rang out around 4:15 a.m. near the 4800 block of Northeast 100th Avenue. The sole victim was dead by the time officers arrived at the scene.

Portland has a vision coupling a high population influx with high density development like every other progressive city, our “2035 Plan”, where developers finance the transformation of American cities. How ours will fare in the economy the racial reckoning is creating remains to be seen.

Whether by accident or design Portland’s scheme was creating a situation something like Paris, where the immigrant banlieues and their attendant problems are planted in the suburbs, and the city spared for the good, enlightened people who can afford it. East of the Willamette River and downtown was where blacks bought houses due to redlining, and was considered “blighted” when capturing Great Society money and attention. Being so close in to downtown it’s been gentrifying for a long time (this is the source of the great Red House struggle), and the ghetto has migrated east, toward dowdy and depressing Gresham, at the same time we’ve begun the importation of third world colonies. Sketchiness and danger increase as one heads east.

Shootings are up everywhere, and the near east is where the people with jobs exist in closer proximity to “the Community” (in progressive-speak black people).

The shooting above took place in the Parkrose neighborhood.

Portland’s doubling in homicides so far comes on the heels of the city dismantling its gun violence team, as part of the Great Racial Reckoning of 2020; gun or gang units are coming down wherever they’re vulnerable because they tend to put a lot of young black men in jail.

Jo Ann Hardesty, city councilmember leading the police abolition movement here and forcing those cuts, announced the city’s Portland Street Response program took its first steps today:

Portland Street Response (PSR), the innovative non-police response championed by Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty to assist people experiencing houselessness or a behavioral/mental health crisis, kicked off its first day with its pilot team on Monday, January 11.

The team consists of a program manager, a firefighter/paramedic, a mental health clinician, and two community health workers.

Jan 11 2020

Some people bring flowers and such to vigils for the deceased, others bring lead:

PORTLAND, Ore. – Two people were shot in northeast Portland on Sunday night while attending a vigil for someone who had recently passed away.

The people, a woman and a man, were both taken to local hospitals and are expected to survive.

The shooting took place shortly after 7 p.m. during a vigil in the 4500 block of Northeast 125th Place.

Arriving officers said they found more than 20 bullet casings at the scene, and found two apartments and a vehicle had also been hit by the gunfire.

Police have not made any arrests in the case.

Stray bullet

Jan 10: A 65-year-old North Portland woman suffered a bullet wound to the foot when a suspected car thief fired into her house in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning.

Police said the encounter unfolded when two residents who lived near the woman confronted two people who appeared to be trying to steal the residents’ car parked outside their home near the 9300 block of North Wall Avenue, about one block from Northgate Park in the Portsmouth neighborhood.

Shootings are up 226 percent in Portland, so far, post-Floyd:

in 2020, Portland saw 890 shootings, compared to 393 in 2019. PPB dashboard shows shootings up all around and highest in the “community”

Jan 9 2020

Shooting, serious injury:

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A shooting in North Portland has put one victim in the hospital with serious injuries, Portland Police Bureau said Saturday.

At 3:06 p.m. Saturday, North Precinct officers responded to a report of a person shot at North Interstate Avenue and North Going Street, police said. Officers arrived and found a victim with a gunshot wound. Paramedics treated the man and transported him to a hospital for further treatment.

No suspect information is available at this time

Federal judge springs 12-year fugitive eco terrorist over Covid concerns:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the pretrial release of a man accused of eco-terrorism as soon as he tests negative for COVID-19.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken said it has become untenable for Joseph M. Dibee to review discovery and help counsel prepare for trial. Dibee learned he was infected with the coronavirus after he was tested Dec. 21 in Inverness Jail.

Dibee previously turned himself in after having his pre-trial release revoked by a judge, citing the fact he fled to Cuba 12 years ago.

Dibee, 52, was arrested in Cuba in August 2018 on a 12-year-old federal warrant. He was indicted in 2006 in Oregon on charges of arson, conspiracy to commit arson and destruction of an energy facility. Dibee is accused of helping to destroy the Cavel West Inc. meatpacking plant in Redmond on July 1, 1997, and destroying a Bonneville Power Administration tower near Bend on Dec. 30, 1999, though his attorney said Dibee didn’t play a role in the tower vandalism and called that charge “bogus.”

Jan 8

Turncoat girlfriend and the date from Hell:

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Home surveillance video and a witness statement from a woman later arrested helped Washington County deputies find a man wanted for stabbing one person in the early hours of Thursday in Beaverton.

The victim was stabbed several times in the upper body and face around 1:25 a.m. in the 100 block of SW 138th Avenue, authorities said. He told investigators he had just gotten home and met his friend, Katherine Garrido, outside.

As he unlocked his front door, a man rushed up and demanded his wallet. But when the victim said he didn’t have a wallet, the suspect stabbed him and then ran off.

Garrido, 25, told deputies she saw what happened and then left.

About 2 hours later, deputies spotted a Hyundai violating traffic rules and stopped the car on Highway 26 near Cedar Hills Boulevard. Deputies recognized the driver as the stabbing suspect they saw on the victim’s home surveillance.

Stephen Jajeh, 25, was driving Garrido’s Hyundai — and she was in the passenger seat. Deputies said they found a knife with blood on it in the trunk.

Both were arrested. Jajeh and Garrido each face robbery, assault and unlawful use of a weapon charges. Garrido also faces a charge of criminal conspiracy.

The victim was treated at a hospital for his wounds and was released.

Dahlen captured:

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The attempted murder suspect who escaped from Portland Police Bureau’s Central Precinct Saturday night has been captured and taken into custody.

Early Friday morning, 24-year-old escapee David Dahlen was spotted by the United States Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force inside a car at Lents Park on Southeast 92nd Avenue. The U.S. Marshals notified the Portland Police Bureau and authorities immediately sprung into action.

Shortly before 9 a.m., authorities attempted to block the vehicle Dahlen was in. Despite their efforts, the driver of the vehicle — who was not Dahlen — was able to maneuver out of their reach. The car fled from the area, going east on Southeast Holgate Boulevard. PPB officers then set up spike strips down the road, which successfully punctured the vehicle’s tires.

The halls of power have been stormed by the people countless times in history, but never have the people gained so little as a result as on January 9. It remains to be seen just how much they have lost. A small but representative handful of actors have managed to provide our enemies in power a world-historic windfall–just as they were consolidating their power.

As a last-ditch effort to stop that consolidation of power it’s defensible. But it seems if you’re to storm and occupy the people’s legislature you had better have a plan. The chaos and stupidity of the event make laughable charges of sedition and insurrection; the imagery, ironically, will be pretext for making final and official the real insurrection–and the long project to create a post-Constitutional post-white America. The halls and icons the Bold and Baked desecrated the other day were long ago severed from their historical connections and meaning by the same people who–many or most of them at least–have spent their lives alienating them from their historical connection, meaning and reality. Indeed, people who have nodded in approval at mobs pulling down statues of Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington. Does anyone think that, in their hands over the next decades, the icons inside the building were going to be safe, not from desecration, but from erasure?

They’re angry–I’m angry–as they would be at the desecration of great religious art–it doesn’t make them religious.

Now, none of this has anything to do with the justice of Trump’s cause, which we’re all about to follow off a cliff like train cars. A disciplined, united media (this America, at least, is not “divided”), controlling the treatment of, and fabricating outright, all concerns, controls the context in which all concerns are considered. In this controlled environment focusing on the integrity of the election, necessary as it was, distracted from the greater and grander crime, an open four year campaign on the part of powerful interests to disenfranchise Trump voters and frustrate popular will that culminated in the violence and murder of last summer’s BLM riots.

Election fraud, real or not, distracts us from the fact elections don’t matter. The last four years have demonstrated that, along with the malice that enforces this reality.

Any election fraud pales compared to four years of Russiagate, the Ukraine impeachment “scandal”, Covid crackdowns, the murder and mayhem of BLM. These components of the grand campaign have destroyed countless livelihoods and lives, bringing the nation to its knees and humiliating it before the world; they have gotten people killed, set crime and criminals loose–and promise, gleefully, to release more.

While the part about setting criminals loose is an end in itself, all of this has been part of a sustained effort to depose Trump and negate any populist impulse–and if populism has no place at all, you can’t have genuine democracy. Not that anyone is fighting for democracy. Nor should they. But the powerful understand–despite the hypocrisy (which, like democracy and Trump the man, is beside the point); it’s time for the rest of us to come to that understanding.

I suspect Trump, whatever his flaws or virtues, didn’t understand either. In his titanic vanity Trump thought he was going to make even his enemies love him, and that elusive love may be the ultimate goal of his ambition. He is us–he is even his enemies. What makes him unique is not the vanity but the honesty and transparency of it.

Not despite but because of his ego, he will likely be the last man to hold genuine faith in the popular will and the last genuine democrat to become President of the United States.