Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty doesn’t work for the best interests of her city. She is a tool of the BLM and Antifa mob, complicit in the destruction of her town. And she’s covering up their crimes by spreading disinformation
Hardesty believes herself a celebrity. She goes on air to bash cops, and even gave a TED Talk attacking first responders, and her jobs on the council include fire and rescue and 911. Here’s a post that’s typical of her content on Twitter.
Portlanders deserve to exercise their first amendment rights without being attacked in broad daylight by white nationalists. Portlanders also deserve to protest without facing indiscriminate and excessive force from the officers who are sworn to protect them. (4/5)
— Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty (@JoAnnPDX) August 22, 2020
The thread is about an apparently planned protest or gathering in Portland on Saturday, possibly involving Proud Boys and other groups. But that doesn’t stop her from bashing the police in her own city for their effort to protect the citizens and businesses that the city is actually made of and consists of.
Now that you have the flavor of her content, here’s what she said about Marquise Love, who as you know is a protester (rioter) arrested as one of several people who tried to murder a man in front of a whole crowd of people in the middle of a Portland city street. Love was arrested because he did the crime.
Here’s Hardesty:
Important fact check: The statement includes "the [incident] where a truck driver was beaten up after an altercation with a protester" which has been proven false. The driver was attacked by several individuals not associated with the protests: https://t.co/kYvWeJMk8G
— Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty (@JoAnnPDX) August 20, 2020
She links to an out of date article that quotes the woman in the truck as saying of the band of marauders that “This little group was not a protesting group. They were just looking for a fight. They were trying to fight people driving by. They were just looking to fight somebody.”
That layperson’s take obviously refers to the fact that this pack of thugs weren’t in the large body who were carrying signs at that exact moment. As anyone following the news – a group you would think would include city commissioner Hardesty – knows, this is part of what the “protesters” (rioters) do every night. They send out roving bands to start fires, vandalize buildings, and most importantly, to attack and harm people who live in Portland. That’s part of it. The young lady in the truck probably doesn’t know this because they were just driving through when they were assaulted. But Hardesty knows, and so does that reporter. They just lie about it.
People aren’t letting her get away with it.
Why are you covering for his attackers?
— I didn't vote for him, so think of a new retort (@jtLOL) August 22, 2020
I guess being there for weeks on end doesn’t count? pic.twitter.com/IkD1ypGqSr
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 22, 2020
So if a protester begins to attack someone they are no longer a protester? Basically, once you commit a crime you lose your 'association' with the protests you've been associated with previously? If you show up the next night are you protesting or just committing crimes?
— @amuse (@amuse) August 22, 2020
Video was pretty damn obvious. Violent attack motivated by radical revolutionary ideology. Repugnant.
— S.K. (@subculturistic) August 22, 2020
This one is the total proof of her lies.
It's actually true. Marquise Love walks from the protest at the Justice Center directly to the 7-11 where the incident with the truck driver begins. You can see the evidence here in Drew Hernandez's video. He captures the entire sequence without break: https://t.co/3x9447hmpA
— Bill Dickens (@WilliamHDickens) August 22, 2020
She already knows. She’s a liar so she lied about it. It’s called disinformation and she’s doing it from her official Twitter account as a city official.
Here’s what she says, by the way, in her Facebook post.
The past 80+ days have laid bare the inequities and conflict deep in our city and across the country. People are angry and overwhelmed. We have seen too many Black people killed at the hands of police, and the nightly violence carried out by police at protesters challenging police violence only adds more pain and trauma. We are experiencing the tension and pushback that comes with challenging the status quo.
“Nightly violence carried out by police.” That’s what she really says. She also said as “a child of the Civil Rights movement” she will continue to “condemn the nightly police violence.” She claims she will call out “bad actors” among the protesters, but … yeah, no she won’t.
Jo Ann Hardesty. That’s her name. If you live there, remember that at the ballot box.