Chaos grips Portland
Will Dems denounce violence?
The Black Lives Matter protester wanted for brutalizing a truck driver in Portland, Ore., is a former security guard with a long history of run-ins with the law — including past arrests for domestic assault and theft.
Details about Marquise Love’s checkered past emerged Wednesday as cops continue to hunt for him over the Sunday-night mob attack that left Adam Haner unconscious on the street.
On Facebook, Love, 25, portrayed himself as a doting father, posing with his young son in a Black Lives Matter T-shirt, DJing and skateboarding.
“It’s for me and my sons culture #BLM #RISEUP,” he wrote in a July 27 post.
But on Sunday night, blocks from a downtown Portland protest, Love was captured on video, police allege, assaulting Haner.
The beatdown occurred after a mob that was “looking for a fight” chased Haner in his 4×4 truck, forcing him to crash before he was yanked out of the vehicle, according to his girlfriend.
“This little group was not a protesting group,” Tammie Martin told Fox 12 Oregon Tuesday, adding that they were called “white supremacists” during the confrontation.
“They were just looking for a fight. They were trying to fight people driving by. They were just looking to fight somebody.”
Love allegedly took to Snapchat afterward to say he may be behind bars again soon.
“Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all I did was fight him,” he wrote, according to a screenshot posted to social media — although Haner ultimately survived. “Look it up on twitter put money on my books and come see me.”
It would not have been Love’s first time in a jail cell.
In the last eight years, he has been busted in Washington County — which covers suburban Portland — on a slew of alleged offenses, most recently in 2017 for domestic assault and domestic
harassment, according to the local sheriff’s office.
The year before, he was charged with providing false information in connection with a transfer of a firearm, as well as hit with raps for domestic assault and criminal trespass.
In 2014 and 2015, Love was arrested for violating probation, with an arrest report showing he was with a woman and their son during the first bust.
And in 2012, he was arrested in November for being at a train station despite being temporarily banned from the system and failing to buy a ticket, and a month later for possession of a stolen bicycle, according to police.
Only one of the Washington
County collars resulted in prosecution due to a lack of evidence, according to a spokesman for the local district attorney.
“Our attorneys reviewed each case carefully and independently and found there was insufficient evidence to prove the charges except for the November 2012 case,” Washington County DA spokesman Stephen Mayer told The Post.
Court records show Love pleaded guilty to interfering with public transportation in that case and was sentenced to 18 months’ probation and a $500 fine but later had $400 converted to 40 hours of community service, a court clerk said.
Records also show three other prosecutions in two other counties dating to 2012, all for drivingrelated charges.
He failed to appear for court in at least two cases and owes more than $4,300 in unpaid fines.
On his since-deleted Facebook page, he listed himself as an “armed security guard” and “ramp agent at Portland International Airport.”
But the Star Protection Agency told Fox News he was canned in March, and the airport said he hasn’t worked there for years.
A GoFundMe page set up by his brother to pay for Haner’s recovery posted a photo of him with bruises on his body and two black eyes.
On Tuesday, his brother Brian wrote that Adam was “still very dazed” and was interviewing with a detective.
“He doesn’t remember everything that has happened,” Brian wrote.
“He thought his truck only had a dent in it.”
The page had raised more than $116,000 by Wednesday evening.
Love couldn’t be reached by The Post Wednesday. A lawyer who represented him in the 2012 fare-beating case declined to comment on his behalf.
THE timing could not have been more inconvenient for Democrats. The day before they eulogized the Black Lives Matter movement and elevated it to the centerpiece of their national convention, a white man was dragged out of his pickup truck by BLM protesters, kicked in the head (pictured) and beaten almost to death.
Even more inconvenient was the fact that the victim, laborer Adam Haner, had been trying to stop these “mostly peaceful” socialjustice warriors from attacking a transgender woman at the time. You couldn’t make it up.
The sickening hate crimes we are seeing in Democratic-run cities in the name of BLM over the past 12 weeks are occurring with the tacit encouragement of Democratic mayors, governors and district attorneys.
This is the dirty secret Democrats are trying to sweep under the carpet until the election, with the help of their media allies.
Not one word of condemnation have we heard at the Democratic National Convention for the violence and lawlessness that has engulfed Portland, Ore., Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis and, yes, New York City.
Instead we have heard nudge, nudge, wink, wink encouragement from Democratic leaders for the psychopathic thugs who control the streets.
There was Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Saturday, the day before Haner, 40, was bashed senseless, calling for “unrest in the streets” to defeat President Trump.
“There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives,” she told MSNBC.
Democratic Party Chair Tom Perez took to the convention stage Tuesday to pay lavish homage to “the Black Lives Matter movement [which] has given voice to the deep-seated inequality that has plagued our nation since its inception . . . When we nominate Joe Biden to be our standardbearer, we will not miss this moment to ensure those values are reflected in everything we do.”
Those values, explicitly laid out by BLM’s self-described “trained Marxist” founders, and on its Web site, include “a national defunding of police,” “prison abolition,” the destruction of the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” and a “queer-affirming network” that will “dismantle cisgender privilege.”
It is a fantasy to pretend that endorsing “black lives matter” explicitly in the Democratic Party platform and dozens of times in its convention has nothing to do with the Marxist, anti-cop, antifamily organization that has coopted a worthy phrase.
Using lower-case letters does not absolve Democrats of their association with a militant organiza tion inciting racial violence that currently is ruining black lives in the cities they run.
It would be as if al Qaeda renamed itself “Save the Children.” The words do not represent the actions of the organization. They are a ruse to attract support from well-meaning people.
But in the surreal political reality of 2020, we all have to pretend that the Democratic Party is not connected to BLM, which is not connected to the violence on the streets committed in its name.
Sunday night’s attack on Haner was video-recorded by independent reporters. We see the attackers yelling “black lives matter” and people wearing BLM-branded clothing involved, including a white woman who orders someone to record Haner’s license plate.
At one point, a voice is heard admonishing someone livestreaming events: “Do not record [things] that don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.”
After the attack, while Haner was still in the hospital, BLM operatives went online to accuse him falsely of being a white supremacist.
Haner is recovering at home from a serious concussion that has robbed him of his short-term memory, left him sleeping for hours and “feeling ill most of the day,” his older brother, Brian, told The Post.
Any decent political party would immediately cut all ties with BLM.
We are supposed to overlook the fact that Democrat leaders keep signaling their support for such a militant organization while insisting the violence we see is “mostly peaceful protests.”
At the height of BLM’s “defund the police” push last month, for instance, Biden declared he was “absolutely” on board with what was euphemistically put to him, by interviewer Ady Barkan, as “redirecting” some police funding.
Instead of defending police against weeks of violence and denigration, Biden signaled his accord with the anti-cop hatred of the BLM movement.
His campaign has run a million miles from that sentiment ever since and now claims Biden actually wants more funding for police. But we heard him the first time.
Why do you think police organisations across the country, including the NYPD’s rank-and-file union, the Police Benevolent Association, have endorsed Trump? They know who has their back and it’s not the Democrats.
Having incited unrest, Democratic leaders deliberately disempowered their police forces, refused to prosecute rioters and are obstructing attempts by the president to send in federal authorities to impose law and order.
In Portland, District Attorney Mike Schmidt has declared he will not prosecute rioters arrested by police.
The same immunity applies in Seattle and in New York, where protesters arrested by police haven’t been prosecuted for two months.
“Under the new policy, the DA’s Office declines to prosecute these arrests in the interest of justice,” announced Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in June.
How, exactly, is it in the interest of justice to allow some people who serve your political interests to break the law with impunity and not others?
But violence and disorder is a Democratic strategy to dislodge Donald Trump from the White House.
They depict the president as “Captain Chaos,” pin the blame on him for the riots, and hope he overreacts by cracking down too hard.
They are banking on frightened Americans voting for them to stop the chaos, which they created.