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    Portland citizens fight cops over dumpster food,

    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.

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    The shame of it CJ is that the Health Dept sets rules on foods and what has to be done with it the second a business loses power . They have to toss it and cannot even donate once it gets to the stage that the food is classified as possibly spoiled . Litigations and lawsuits and the inevitable "I got sick" will bring the teams of ambulance chasers out so they have to take a stand about " spoiled food" even if its not yet at that stage .
    Theres always that opportunist out there that ruin logic .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daily Bread View Post
    The shame of it CJ is that the Health Dept sets rules on foods and what has to be done with it the second a business loses power . They have to toss it and cannot even donate once it gets to the stage that the food is classified as possibly spoiled . Litigations and lawsuits and the inevitable "I got sick" will bring the teams of ambulance chasers out so they have to take a stand about " spoiled food" even if its not yet at that stage .
    Theres always that opportunist out there that ruin logic .
    All very true. On the surface, a story like this evokes memories of the government destroying or making inedible huge supplies of food during the Great Depression as a means to prop up prices, while families literally starved to death - as memorably recounted in Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'. Then one remembers what you pointed out - liability and common sense health regulations - which might be overlooked if the would-be dumpster divers were starving to death, but that's unlikely to have been the case.
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