assigned to antiriot union resigned this week. christina coleman with the latest. hi, christina. christina: the union is defending officers. they say morale is down after antipolice sentiment and criticism and endless riot. in a statement quote, rapid response team did not volunteer to have molotov cocktailing and feces and other dangerous objects thrown at them and threats of rape, murder and assault on them or their families. they did not volunteer to suffer serious injuries to be subject to warrantless criticism and false allegations by elected officials or to suffer through baseless complaints and lengthy investigations. portland pd s entire riot squad, 50 officers quit that detail partly in response to an officer being charged with assault over an incident during one of the city s many violent protests. now this officer was already cleared of wrongdoing by the
absolutely not, especially in oregon. patriot prayer went to practice their first amendment rights. joey was spit on, pepper sprayed. i think ted wheeler needs an axe to grind and we re not going to be that group. that s why we came here today reporter: explain to me. i don t understand why you re showing up? to antagonize the merritt or the city? there are people here, people of color in particular, that feel like they re being terrorized because of language used by groups like yours against them. and you all have a history also in manhattan. there s a case now where there s videos out there was ten members of your group or people that are around your group who they went ahead and reporter: that s not the way the city same thing the powers of the governor and the mayor of new york, same thing that ted wheeler wants to do. i ve had an open dialogue with portland p.d. for the past month. and then here we are, there was two different stories, there was portland p.d. s
out from the sheriff s department a short time ago. we re keeping an eye on this and certainly hoping and praying for the best there today in central florida. we ll be back on that story in a moment here. shannon: fox news alert a pro-trump free speech rally in downtown portland oregon. dan springer is live in portland. break it down for us. how much violence was there at these competing rallies? hi, shannon. a lot of tense moments in this park and up the block in the next park when it looked like there might be a full scale riot between anarchists dressed in black and bandanas. the portland p.d. and state and federal cops here lining the