Many stores and restaurants had to dump their food due to no power. Citizens came out to gather what they could. COPS blocked their way and would not let citizens gather the food.
WHAT tha HALE. The same cops that stood by while these same citizens' businesses were looted and burned, their lives interrupted, Their lives threatened, NO rioters arrested and if they were they were released on bail, thank YOU CommieLa Harris. And these same cops are blocking these citizens who want to gather recently dumped food??
Someone's PRIORITIES are ALL screwed up.
Via Oregon Live:
Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.
Workers at the Hollywood West Fred Meyer threw away thousands of perishable items because the store, like many others, had lost power in an outage brought on by the region’s winter storm.
Images on social media showed mountains of packaged meat, cheese and juice, as well as whole turkeys and racks of ribs that had been tossed into two large dumpsters near the store.
A few people gathered about 2:30 p.m. at the store, 3030 N.E. Weidler St., in hopes of salvaging the food.
But within a few hours, people seeking food from the dumpsters began to report police officers showing up to guard the dumpsters and prevent people from taking the items.
Morgan Mckniff, a prominent activist and outspoken Portland police critic who lives in the neighborhood, said employees were guarding the dumpsters when they showed up to get some of the discarded food. Mckniff began to film the employees and reported staff members threatened to call the police on them for doing so.