A Portland attorney called an Oregon District Attorney for violating “fundamental principles of equal protection of the law” by deciding not to prosecute hundreds of Portland protesters.
“We have a prosecutor who has understood centuries of families about criminal law and restrictions and incapacity and all the other benefits of arresting people for the purpose of promoting public harassment in Portland,” attorney James Buchal said Thursday. Fox & Friends First “.
Buchal made the remarks two days after Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that prosecutors would be dropped against Protestants who were arrested and accused of interfering with a peace officer as parole and probation officer; obsessive-compulsive disorder; criminal offense; escape; harassment and rioting, unless they were accompanied by some other charge of physical violence or damage to property.
“The Protestants are angry … and deeply frustrated about what they see as structural inequality in our basic social fabric, and this frustration can escalate to levels that the law shines,” Schmidt said. “This policy recognizes that centuries of different treatment of our blacks [sic] and brown communities have left deep wounds and that the healing process will not be easy or quick. ”
Host Jillian Mele noted on Thursday that only “45 of the 550 cases referred to police are being prosecuted.”
She then asked Buchal what type of advance set the movement, not only in Portland, but in cities across the country.
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“It states the president that if you deliver the preferential message of the Democratic Party machines, you are isolated from criminal justice,” Buchal said. “Essentially, it takes criminal behavior and it says, ‘Oh, this is First Amendment behavior, but if anyone on the right flank does it, it’s still criminal behavior,’ and it fundamentally violates principles of equal protection of the law. . ‘
Portland has been rocked for months by demonstrations following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police.
Demonstrations in the city of Oregon that began peacefully regularly plunged into chaos as police and protesters clashed outside areas north and east of the city, the police union headquarters and a building that housed police stations in the downtown area.
Buchal said others “in the past in Portland have been prosecuted for the same conduct and conduct” and there is a “powerful case for actually an unconstitutional persecution.”
“We should not use criminal law as one means of shutting down one type of dissent and promoting another,” he added.
“We have people in Portland who have been persecuted because they have done literally nothing but stand in front of a crowd of Antifa people and hold up a mobile phone camera and say, ‘Look, these are the Antifa people and they’s rebellious. . ‘ “They are being prosecuted and at the same time you have people who are attacking the police and shooting fireworks and throwing paint bombs at them … and these are the people who are all getting a pass,” he explained.
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Fox News’ Vandana Rambaran contributed to this report.
