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Big City wins case against Boise State administrators, awarded millions in damages A jury delivered a unanimous verdict late Friday evening siding with now-closed Big City Coffee owner Sarah Jo Fendley for her lawsuit alleging two top Boise State University administrators violated her First Amendment rights. After a nine-day jury trial, Fendley came out on top over then-Vice Presi...

Posted • IT’S ABOUT TIME.

Posted • The "activists" (read: soy-latte drinking, man-bun rocking, unemployed Antifa punks who live in mommy's basement) are pretty pi**ed they can't dox the officers who were doing their jobs.⁠⁠
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Posted • Never forget: Hardesty and Wheeler accused the Portland Police of racism when they disbanded specialty units like the Gun Violence Reduction Team, School Resource Officers, Transit and Traffic Divisions…

Turns out real racism is removing police protection from the group of people who will become victims— the people the Portland Police were protecting when their staffing was intact.

It will take time, money and a complete reversal of mindset to reverse a reckless decision like defunding the police. Portland hasn’t even begun to climb out of the hole it dug for itself.

Posted • While domestic violence and random shootings by people with easy access to guns have contributed to the toll, gang-related rivalries and fights among armed people living on the street have driven this year’s killings, said Sgt. Joe Santos, a Portland homicide division supervisor before he retired recently.

Fifty-five people died through July, most of them in shootings. Almost half of the victims were Black people, mostly men -- far disproportionate to the 6% of Multnomah County’s population that identifies as Black and 3% that identifies as Black men.

August has so far brought four more killings.

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