He seems to have overlooked the ppd declaring an unlawful assembly and using their usual brutality AFTER escorting the alt right out-of-towners to safety. So, actually, the ppd didn't show any different strategy: support and protect invasive violent white power groups and brutalize citizens.

When's Wheeler gonna start wearing his Fred Perry shirts in public?

one can only imagine the political alliances being protected by such a deafeningly neutral statement on what was clearly police sympathy with right-wingers...

What should he do? That’s an easy one. He should resign. Clearly not up to the job of police commissioner, and not up to the job of Mayor of Portland.

Police don’t want to upset their RWN buddies. It would make the next militia meet-up kind of awkward.