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Bob Moore, Founder of Bob's Red Mill, Dies at 94

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...roponent-of-whole-grain-health-302059067.html

 

Whatever ass hat took the tree, should be jailed.

 

No, that should not be a jailable offense. Some community service of having to plant 100 trees would be appropriate and fair.

 

it can be both, thing is I seriously doubt that planting 100 trees would keep them from doing stupid shit again.

 

But we could use 100 trees more than we need to keep a low-level shit head in jail.

 

and that's why they keep having to replace the tree.

 

FUCK.THIS.DUDE!

What he said happened:



What actually happened:

 

Yeah, reserving judgment pending complete information is just ridiculous.

 

Here is the Oregonian/Oregonlive article from this morning that provided the link to the youtube video.

Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez says he faced ‘deliberate, unwanted physical contact’ aboard a MAX train. Here’s what video shows

Portland Commissioner and mayoral hopeful Rene Gonzalez recently said that he would temporarily stop using public transit after he alleged that a woman “accosted” him aboard a MAX train, including subjecting him to “deliberate, unwanted physical contact.”

Video obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows that the woman may have at most brushed Gonzalez’s arm as she moved to the front of the nearly empty train car, where, according to the commissioner, she began criticizing him over the city’s homelessness policies. Footage of the Jan. 26 encounter, captured on a pair TriMet cameras, also does not appear to substantiate his assertion that the woman intentionally “bumped” into him twice, a claim Gonzalez made to police on the day of the incident and then to news outlets a week later on Feb. 2.

His complaints to news outlets came three weeks after a car belonging to relatives was torched in front of his home in the middle of the night, a claim law enforcement records confirm.

Some uncertainty remains about what precisely transpired on the MAX, however, as portions of the 90-second interaction occur out of clear view of both cameras. Neither video includes audio. A person seated across the aisle from Gonzalez appears to glance in the direction of the commissioner and the woman once or twice during the episode but otherwise looks out the window, according to the video.

The Portland Police Bureau closed an investigation into the incident last week, which authorities say included reviewing Gonzalez’s account to police of his experience while commuting to City Hall as well as the TriMet footage.

“After reviewing the available evidence, (police) determined that there is no probable cause to make an arrest for a crime,” bureau spokesperson Sgt. Kevin Allen told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Friday.

Gonzalez, in a statement released by his campaign Sunday, did not address what the TriMet footage shows nor how he previously characterized the encounter in a video he published to the social media platform X on Feb. 2.

Instead, the first-term city commissioner and mayoral candidate said that he and other Portland elected officials have faced persistent, sometimes escalating harassment in recent years.

“This is part of a larger pattern in our city — one that has grown markedly,” said Gonzalez, noting instances in which Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Dan Ryan were also targeted.

“Political intimidation of more moderate elected officials has become increasingly normalized. It shouldn’t be normal, and we shouldn’t stay silent as it continues,” Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez’s campaign also provided a timeline of more than a dozen incidents it says Gonzalez, his staff or his family and supporters have faced since July 2022. Among those were the two times his campaign offices were vandalized while he was a City Council candidate as well as when a person or group last month set fire to the relatives’ car outside Gonzalez’s Eastmoreland home.

The timeline also claims that a woman confronted Gonzalez in Pioneer Courthouse Square over suspected arson at a future mass homelessness shelter site on the same day he released his statement about the alleged TriMet episode.

“Personally, these efforts at intimidation have failed,” Gonzalez said. “But they have required a number of changes in my family’s and staff’s life — increased security efforts and a complete reassessment of how I interact with the public to protect those I care about and support me, as well as to avoid unnecessary conflict.” Prior to the alleged encounter on the MAX, Gonzalez regularly used his bicycle and public transit to travel from his Southeast Portland neighborhood to City Hall. At times, he’s highlighted the commuting option as concerns about safety and open drug use aboard buses, trains and at transit stops continue to hamper TriMet ridership.

“Real men take @trimet, especially in days like these ... even if they bike to the station,” Gonzalez wrote on X in September, one day after the transit agency released the results of a study that found trace amounts of fentanyl and meth on nearly all of its trains.

The social media post included a photo of Gonzalez grinning aboard the MAX, with his bicycle behind him.

-- Shane Dixon Kavanaugh; 503-294-7632

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics...board-a-max-train-heres-what-video-shows.html