Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler made an appearance at one of the city’s nightly left-wing protests, which frequently devolve into violent riots, on Wednesday. It didn’t go well, with the crowd of leftists berating Wheeler, surrounding the Democratic mayor, cursing him out, and at one point dumping a bag of metal objects in front of him.
Wheeler went on to give a speech to the crowd of assembled protestors, who persevered in loudly booing and cursing him as he tried to voice his support for the rioters.
One rioter dumped a full bag of metal objects in front of Wheeler as he was walking to address the protestors, which the mayor simply ignored as he proceeded on his way.
Portland’s Ted Wheeler is being publicly shamed just like Minneapolis’ Jacob Frey was. pic.twitter.com/voA9HsEKhZ
— Richard (@Wildman_AZ) July 23, 2020
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Wheeler was fully surrounded by left-wing protestors and rioters and aggressively publicly shamed. The mayor’s attempt to recite a set of pro-riot talking points was quite literally overwhelmed by the curses of the rioters, who made it clear that they see Wheeler as nothing more than a “fascist.”
LOL. What an embarassment. pic.twitter.com/ZbXqI7x9Fz
— Richard (@Wildman_AZ) July 23, 2020
At one point Wheeler was asked whether he supports the outright abolition of the Portland police. He was brutally shamed after he responded to the negative, in a scene eerily reminiscent of the public shaming of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey at a similar left-wing protest weeks ago.
Wheeler refuses to commit to abolishing the Portland Police and gets booed. Just like the Jacob Frey situation. pic.twitter.com/Q5WaFGvNdm
— Richard (@Wildman_AZ) July 23, 2020
Protestors projected an image of their demands just above Wheeler as he spoke, demanding a 50% defunding of the Portland Police bureau and the mayor’s resignation.
Ted Wheeler is conducting some kind of “dialogue” about how he intends to address racism in Portland culture. It’s totally inaudible due to chants of “RESIGN. NOW.” and “SHAME.” They are shining a projector onto the area where he’s speaking with a demand for him to resign pic.twitter.com/wlEQ6fJoTL
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 23, 2020
These leftists have no sympathy for the city’s neoliberal mayor, regardless of the privileges he has tirelessly worked to afford them.
