The mayor of Portland has accused US President Donald Trump of escalating tensions that last night led to a fatal shooting of a man affiliated with a right-wing group | FarrahTomazin
The mayor of Portland, whose city has been plagued by protests for months, has accused US President Donald Trump of escalating tensions that last night led to a fatal shooting of a man affiliated with a right-wing group.
But on Sunday afternoon, Wheeler hit back during an incendiary press conference in which he blasted the President and blamed him for inciting his base to cause trouble.“Yesterday's events began with hundreds of cars filled with supporters of the president rallying in Clackamas County and then driving through downtown Portland. They were supported and energised by the President himself,” said Wheeler.
Trump hit back in real time, tweeting in the middle of Wheeler’s press conference that Portland would never recover with a “wacky Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Mayor” in office. In July, after some protesters stormed the federal justice centre in downtown Portland, agents from the Department of Homeland Security were sent in, without the consent of Wheeler or Democratic Governor Kate Brown. Divisions, both politically and on the ground, intensified immediately.Saturday night’s shooting - which comes after race riots began last week following the police shooting of black man Jacob Blake - took the unrest in Portland to a new level.
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