dailycaller.com 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.
Multnomah County “prosecuting people for everything” is having noticeable effects, with protests dwindling to less than a dozen agitators per night at the ICE building, a Portland police officer told the DCNF in mid-January, speaking anonymously to avoid reprisal. “I had one specific case the other night and they issued immediately,” the officer said. “Vasquez isn’t screwing around.”
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