Portland Police Union Calls for Federal Aid Amid 500% Homicide Surge and Nightly ICE Attacks
By Jackson Wright
Imagine calling 911, knowing the officers desperately want to help, but their hands are tied by the very people sworn to protect you. This isn’t a dystopian novel—it’s Portland, Oregon, where federal facilities burn while police watch from the sidelines, ordered not to intervene.
For over 100 consecutive nights now, Antifa thugs have attacked the city’s ICE facility with bottle rockets, barricades, and lasers aimed at officers’ eyes.
The attacks have become so routine that Camilla Wamsley, director of Portland’s ICE office, recently revealed a shocking truth: local police have been directed not to help. Let that sink in—police ordered to watch as federal property burns.
Federal agents stand alone, dodging projectiles and protecting government property while Portland’s finest sit blocks away, neutered by radical city leadership. Nine homicides last month alone tell the story of a city spiraling out of control.
President Trump has signaled his intent to deploy National Guard units to Portland, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” to protect what he calls the “war ravaged” city. It’s a dramatic intervention, but one that even Portland’s own police union president isn’t dismissing.
When Ideology Meets Reality
Here’s where the story takes an unexpected turn: Sgt. Aaron Schmautz, president of the Portland Police Association, has broken ranks with city leadership. Rather than toe the party line about Portland being safe and peaceful, he’s admitting what everyone can see: his officers need help, and they need it now.