How to Stop the Looting and Violence

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It's been over 75 days of nightly riots in Portland and the violence is spreading to cities across the country. This week, Lora Ries, a senior research fellow in homeland security, talks about how this started, why the protests continue, and what we can do to stop them.

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0:00.0	From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.
0:14.3	It's been over 75 days of nightly riots in Portland, Oregon, and the intensity isn't dying down.
0:22.3	Just over the weekend, a Portland mob that was part of a Black Lives Matter protest,
0:27.9	pulled a man out of his vehicle and beat him until he was unconscious.
0:33.0	Fox News interviewed Drew Hernandez, who witnessed the assault.
0:36.7	Hernandez says that Portland feels like a third world country right now.
0:40.3	This was violent, extremely violent. You know, sometimes I forget that I'm walking the streets of an American city in the northwest.
0:50.3	Sometimes it feels like you're walking in a third world country. You know, I've been to
0:55.8	third world countries. I personally, I've been to Haiti. I've been to Mexico. I've been to
1:00.3	pretty dangerous places. And there's like this sense of fear because the people are unpredictable,
1:06.2	because you know the crime rates are high and the police aren't there to save you. And that's kind of the feeling that I get when I'm walking the streets of Portland now.
1:19.8	And it's not just Portland.
1:25.6	In Seattle, crowds continue to riot and throw large rocks, bottles, fireworks, and other explosives at police.
1:34.5	This body camera and open source footage was released by the Seattle Police Department this past Sunday.
1:41.0	What is going on?
1:42.2	The U.S. TV!
1:43.7	The what is going on? I need to see the phone. There goes a fire. Oh,'s going on.
1:45.0	Keep it tight.
1:46.0	Keep it tight.
2:02.1	Watch out.
2:03.3	Watch out behind you.
2:08.5	You're all right.
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