required. when southern politicians refuse to protect african-americans, it has been required in places where the rights of gay citizens have been assaulted and local officials refused to follow up and it is warranted here and in other circumstances where a city refuses to provide equal protection to its citizens and that is what happened here and refuses to protect the first amendment right of the journalist to do what he set out to do. portland police are selective, not everyone is getting assaulted but the antifa are signaled in advance that nothing will happen to them if they assault him. they knew his name, shouted out and followed him, target him, blinded him, punched him with fiberglass hands and gloves and did it with impunity because ted wheeler is on twitter as opposed to doing his job in city hall. shannon: i want to make sure we