Ted Wheeler Sucks

We are finally up and running with a website! Be sure to check out tedwheelersucks.com to learn more about why we think Ted Wheeler sucks, and why we think you should write in Teressa L Raiford this November. Have a good day, and share the site to friends and family living in Portland!

(We’re hoping the image Facebook uses for the link updates, as we did not mean to make Teressa the image shown when the link is shared, but oh well. We might as well get used to seeing this face, because hopefully she can unseat Ted in November and get us all involved in the changes this city needs.)

Ted Wheeler Sucks.com | Profiling Portland's next ex-mayor Portland's next ex-mayor From endangering and arresting the houseless to inciting racial violence as commissioner of the most violent metropolitan police force in the nation, we take you through the record of Portland, Oregon's own "Tear Gas Teddy." 0 Nightsof consecutive civil unrest $0 MillionIncr...

Quanice Hayes should have celebrated his 21st birthday yesterday. He was only 17 when he was killed. He was unarmed and on his knees when he was shot three times by officer Andrew Hearst. An officer who still holds his job on the Portland Police Bureau, and was defended by city attorneys who said it was Quanice’s mother’s and Quanice’s own fault that he died, not the fault of Portland Police officer Andrew Hearst, who essentially murdered the teenager.

City attorneys and the police are both under Ted Wheeler’s authority.

Portland city attorneys: Quanice Hayes, a 17-year-old fatally shot by police, and his mother were partly to blame for his death Attorneys who sued the city on behalf of Hayes' estate are urging a judge to throw out the city's defense, accusing the city of "character assassination.''

A flash back to almost two months ago, before the feds were here. As usual, Ted was talking the talk, but not walking the walk. Also, in this article, we get a disturbing quote from the Portland Police Deputy Chief Chris Davis, saying “As far as a ban on CS gas, what that would do for us would have us have to figure out a different way to accomplish our objective... The alternative would be higher levels of force that we’d like to be able to avoid.”

Of course Ted had absolutely nothing to say about a Deputy Chief threatening to use more force if he’s not able to use a gas that has been banned in warfare.

Mayor Wheeler Will Not Ban Police Use of Tear Gas During Protests Last night, Friday June 5, Mayor Ted Wheeler spoke to protesters at Chapman Square after listening to their concerns about retaliatory police response on crowds, particularly tear gas, over the past week, saying “I do not like the tear gas, I think it’s ugly, it is not focused enough.” He adde...

These are some of the results you can expect from Ted Wheeler’s Portland Police if you throw up a peace sign to protesters, even if all you’re doing is passing by.

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(From January 24, 2017) The red welts Matthew McGaugh sustained after getting pelted with rubber balls or pellets from police sting-ball grenades as he was walking back to his motel with his fiancee in downtown Portland. (Photo courtesy of Matthew McGaugh)

Your friendly reminder that the Portland Police, under the commission of Ted Wheeler, have been overreacting to protests since Ted first got into office. This story was the second time in his first month as mayor and police commissioner that he allowed and defended using munitions on protesters. And this was just the beginning. Ted Wheeler has never tried to deescalate with his police, and never thinks they overreact. It’s a pattern, and we shouldn’t put up with it anymore, let’s vote this guy out in November.

Complaints about police tactics during protest prompt reviews Mayor Ted Wheeler said he believed the police use of crowd control weapons was appropriate Friday night, but others have complained that officers use of force was excessive. One coupe celebrating their anniversary were struck by rubber pellets from police sting-ball grenades as they walked back to t...