• teft@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    The Portland Police Bureau declined to review the protest footage and assess whether the federal officers’ use of force violated Oregon law because “It would be incredibly time-consuming,” spokesperson Mike Benner said in an email.

    What the absolute fuck. “Doing our job would be too time consuming so fuck that shit.”

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        6 hours ago

        Ppd coordinated with aspiring browshirt orgs around 2020. Proud boys, et al, informed them of movements of protesters and the police units.

        As reported in propublica, not just in portland either, we have accepted having rw extremists running our pd’s in our progressive cities without challenge.

        Now it will be tougher to get non corrupt leadership with the feds and party getting involved. Not that there was a reform pd leadership movement yet.

        We need non corrupt local officials to get non corrupt pd officials. The one chooses the other and the other can take down those officials 7 ways from sunday with all of their corrupt dealings.

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      21 hours ago

      After BLM protests, city voted to defund PPB. They said fine, we’re not going to donour jobs then. The city responded by increasing their salaries higher than before. They still don’t do their jobs, because why would they?