I am proud to be among the loud chorus of elected officials calling for the federal troops in Portland’s streets to go home. Their presence here has escalated tensions and put countless Portlanders exercising their First Amendment Rights in greater danger. Thread/

2/ And - while the city does not have the ability to control federal actions, I do not agree that nothing can be done. For certain, we can control how our own Portland Police Bureau engages with protests and how we manage our response, particularly to this new changed landscape.

3/ Portland cannot work side by side a militarized presence in our streets, which is why I am calling on PPB to immediately disengage in any coordination or collaboration with the federal officers and...

4/ put an end to proactively deploying officers to police protests where federal agents are present.

5/ In lieu of nightly presence where officers are waiting in riot gear, I propose we go back to a world where if a crime takes place, I encourage you to call 911, and our first responders can be dispatched to respond to specific incidents and investigate them on their own merits

6/ What must end is the nightly policing of protests where Portlanders are met with a police force dressed in riot gear resulting in tactics that indiscriminately affect large groups of Portlanders regardless of their actions.

7/ We have now spent over $7 million in overtime costs and I refuse to spend more of our limited resources on police violence. PPB should not act as a subsidiary of 45’s federal forces. We should not let his agenda dictate how we act in this moment.