We have a high school buddy that lives there...works at some taco place, and he is all for socialism. He wants to start a stuffed bread foodie stand and expand business there....see the irony? You can't do that with socialism, so he in essence is benefitting from capitalism...even though he talks about how it should be rid of in the USA....lol.
Anyway, he tries to play off the mess there by saying, it's just a few blocks downtown. We bag on his ass all day. I mean, what if just a "few blocks" where he lives were getting vandalized and burned...hey, it's just a few blocks, right? He chalks it up to just a few kids who have rich parents and they are out rebelling....yea, okay.
Anybody see the old lady they threw paint on? Pretty damn sad, she was super old, and IIRC, wasn't she even using a walker? Maybe that was a second person.
He is from Cali, then he lived up in Idaho with another friend of ours....Lewiston/Clarkston area before chasing a girl over to Portland over 10 years ago.
Good guy, a brother to me, but i'd bash his face in if I seen him in person doing any of this....likewise, i'd be the first to give my hand and life if he was a victim...though he probably reaps what he sows.
But yea....the residents there need to grow some balls and hairy ovaries.