A black Portland policeman has criticized “hypocritical” crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters who include fewer minorities than the police force they face to face in the protests.
Officer Jakhary Jackson commented on the “violent” participants in the movement in an audio interview posted by the department on YouTube last week.
“It says something when you’re at a Black Lives Matter protest, you have more minorities on the police side than in a violent crowd,” he said on the recording.
Jackson, who has worked in the department for about a decade, shared his thoughts as a member of a rapid response team that responded to protests almost daily since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.
Officer Jakhary Jackson denounced Black Lives Matter protesters as hypocrites after noting that more white people than minorities drive violence in the protests that have gripped the city for weeks.
Protesters stand on top of a burning dumpster during a violent protest in Portland last week. Jackson said, “It says something when you’re at a Black Lives Matter protest, you have more minorities on the police side than in a violent crowd.”
Jackson shared his thoughts as a member of a rapid response team that responded to protests almost daily since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. A driver fires a pistol in the air near protesters during a protest in Portland on July 9
Riots have erupted in Portland following peaceful protests calling for an end to police brutality and systematic racism.
Jackson described what it was like to be a black cop in the Portland riots, where he said white people showed up and engaged in the very racist behavior they came to condemn.
“There are white people yelling at black officers,” You have the biggest nose I’ve ever seen, “he explained.
Jackson recalled experiencing racism firsthand when he was young.
“I had been at a party when I was young and a group of whites jumped at me,” he said. ‘I wear this uniform does not erase that story that I have had.’
He praised some of the protesters he met and supported his calls for police reform.
“I am going to see people who really want change like the rest of us who have been affected by racism,” he said.
However, his efforts, he said, were scuttled by people who have no idea what racism is all about. I have never experienced racism.
“They don’t even know that the tactics they use are the same tactics that were used against my people and not even history,” Jackson said. “They do not know what they say”.
Jackson, a Portland State University graduate with a degree in history, said the situation was “really scary.”
“I agree that people feel like they want to help a movement, but when you go to a gentrified community and one of the first photos I saw of one of the looted companies was a black-owned company, I’m like” I don’t even are from here. “
“They don’t know what they are doing,” he added, accusing the strangers of causing division. He mentioned that a cousin of his attended a march and commented: ‘This has become something else. This is strange, very revealing.
The ongoing protests in Portland led President Donald Trump to send federal agents to quell the violence. The US Marshals along with members of the US Federal Protection, Customs and Border Protection Service and Homeland Security Investigations have been in Portland since the beginning or July.
Last weekend, a peaceful protester, armed with only a music speaker, was shot in the head with a ‘rubber bullet’ and was seriously injured by officers who were dispatched to the city.
Pictured are federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security who were deployed to Portland to help deal with violent protests earlier this month.
Agents from the Department of Homeland Security are among the reinforcements sent to Portland by President Donald Trump to quell the violent protests.
Saturday’s disturbing incident occurred across the street from federal court Mark O. Hatfield in Portland during a demonstration against police brutality and racism.
The shooting was widely condemned by local and state officials, who blamed Trump’s decision to send reinforcements.
Another riot broke out outside police headquarters on Tuesday.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Tuesday rejected an offer to help the federal government deal with continued violence. The offer had come from Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security.
‘Today, the Acting Secretary for Homeland Security asked me to speak to me about the demonstration activity in Portland. He expressed concern about the ongoing violence and asked how his agency can help, ” the mayor tweeted Tuesday.
“I told the Acting Secretary that my greatest immediate concern is the violence that federal agents brought to our streets in recent days, and the life-threatening tactics that his agents use.” We do not need or want your help.
DailyMail.com has contacted the police department and Mayor Wheeler to comment on Jackson’s comments.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in a tweet Tuesday (pictured) rejected an offer of help from the federal government to deal with ongoing violence in the city. The offer had come from Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security.
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