I know many of you read the headline and immediately wondered if a Terminator had been set loose in Portland, and while I’d shrug my shoulders with indifference if it had because hey, it’s Portland, that’s not actually the case. I’m talking about a different company here, Skynet Security. As many of you already know, Portland, Oregon has turned into what I like to call a dumpster fire city in the wake of its woke takeover. A leading leftist stronghold, the city is a place where people are directed not to use terms like “pregnant woman” or “citizen,” where feminine hygiene products are referred to as “period products” and breastfeeding is now “chestfeeding.” Portland is also a place where you can get shot in a nightclub by a guy known simply as “Streets” and win a $1.8 million jury verdict against the club’s security contractor while the police are still unable to identify the shooter more than a year later.
On May 14, 2023, gunshots rang out in Northeast Portland at the Capitol Bar where 33-year-old Jose Manuel Carabes Perez was shot in the thigh by a suspect who was a stranger to him but not to Skynet Security, the company hired to secure the premises that night. The suit alleges that Skynet had encountered “Streets” at other businesses where they operated as security contractors in this troubled part of the city, and that he had a reputation for “a violence problem,” which the company “knew or should have known” posed a danger to club patrons.
Having unknowingly let “Streets” into the club armed that night, he apparently did what he does best, getting into a dispute with another patron before opening fire into the crowd like a cowardly psychopath. In doing so, he struck three bystanders who weren’t even involved in the dispute, Carabes Perez and two women. Get this, all were shot in their thighs, begging the question, does this guy’s hatred come from a little man complex?
With the constant berating of law enforcement and the city becoming a “defund the police” hotbed, it is no surprise that Portland has gone from being considered a relatively safe city to being a serious contender for the title of Murder City, USA. Regardless, police were on the scene quickly, applying tourniquets and rendering medical aid.
Barry Engle, Carabes Perez’s attorney throughout the three-day trial in Multnomah County Circuit Court, is not aware if law enforcement has ever identified the shooter, with a police spokesperson saying only that the case remains open.
“He was just a young person enjoying a night out and didn’t deserve what happened to him,” said Engle of his injured client.
Two other local bars had been sources of complaints from the neighborhood before and after the incident, with three people being injured in a 2021 shooting in the area.
The lawsuit places the blame on Skynet Security, as the company was responsible for patting down customers and preventing violent people from entering. The Capitol Bar was not part of the proceeding, however, it was named in the lawsuit and decided to settle for an undisclosed amount before the trial.
Skynet Security admitted to falling short of its duties on the night of the shooting, an almost predetermined fault with a name like Skynet, leaving one question for the jury. How much money is due Carabes Perez?
Ultimately the shooting victim was awarded $1.75 million for pain and suffering, with an additional $62,000 for past and future medical and psychological care costs. Attorneys representing the security company said Skynet had declined to comment on the verdict.
The two women who were also shot that night filed lawsuits as well, but both settled for undisclosed amounts.
Look, we all watched it unfold during the 2020 “Summer of Love” riots that left at least 25 Americans dead and cost taxpayers more than $2 billion in damages. We were told it was “mostly peaceful,” and called racists, bigots and Nazis if we disagreed. We saw organized and well-funded groups backed by political talking heads calling for the dismantling of our law enforcement agencies during an unprecedented time of lawlessness. But even after the dead are buried and the cities are rebuilt, it seems Americans will continue to pay for what took place and that there is much work ahead of us if we endeavor to reverse and repair the ideology, and frankly the illness, at the root of all the evil that befell our country and still plagues us today.
Besides the injustice of the real shooter going free, isn’t this a win for gun rights? Anywhere where guns are prohibited isn’t the establishment taking defacto responsibility for the security of its customers and staff?
I have no issues with this outcome and encourage it’s inevitable expansion in such an environment.
I’d say they are. Every mall, every political office, every store, every landlord, every homeowner, who prohibits the means of self protection should be held liable when they fail to protect their customers or guests.
Your clothes,,,Give them to me.
Your clothes, your boots, and the key to your motorcycle–give them to me now.
On the other hand, if Skynet knew this guy, what was stopping them from.barring this animal from.the venue?
Maybe they didn’t have the authority or not part of the contract. They may have only been allowed to exclude the weapons, not the people. I can see a business say “keep the weapons out but we reserve the exclusive right to make a persona-non-grata list.
Besides the obvious injustice of the actual shooter walking free, isn’t this a win for gun rights? When an establishment that’s open to the public bans guns, aren’t they de facto responsible for the security of their customers? If not how so? If I’m being deprived of my individual second amendment right of self defense affirmed by Heller, am I afforded no rights in that establishment at all? I feel like those cases should be tried civilly at minimum.
I think that, so far as gun rights go, no. The nightclub very likely has no choice in the matter. Even some very Red States prohibit firearms in bars and nightclubs.
Of course, you can’t sue the State for a law that endangers your life.
I suppose that Skynet is insured.
If not it might be a while until that guy sees any money.
$20 a month until the 1.8 million is paid off is more like what he will see.
“Skynet had encountered ‘Streets’ at other businesses where they operated as security contractors in this troubled part of the city, and that he had a reputation for “a violence problem,”
Apparently, ‘Streets’ literally meant “I’ll be back.”
“Streets” must be well known to local authorities who can’t act for “social justice” reasons.
The Biden-Harris regime spent ~$84 Billion on ‘social justice’ paying DEI ‘contractors’ and ‘advisors’ :
1. Make trans people happy with their choice of ‘imaginary gender’ and suppressing the voices and desires of those wanting to not be trans after realizing what a mistake they had made.
2. Make black and brown people believe they are ‘more black’ and ‘more brown’ and not really Americans or people but rather ‘slaves’ deserving of ‘their fate of slavery’ if they don’t vote for democrats
3. Make biological women believe they are not worthy of being called a woman or human and not worth anything if they did not embrace trans-ideology and conversion to another gender to inflict it on their kids.
4. Convincing far left wing liberal women to have even more casual sex with random males and get pregnant so they can exercise their ‘my body my choice’ self-proclaimed ‘right’ to have an abortion.
Who’s Going to Account for the FBI’s Hundreds of Missing Murders?
“In October, Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) broke the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had stealth-revised its reported violent crime data for 2022 to show a 4.5% increase rather than the originally reported 2.1% decrease for that year. Among other things, that adjustment added 1,699 more murders for 2022.
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Now, another source, Just Facts Daily (JFD), a ‘research institute dedicated to publishing facts about public policies,’ has done a dive into homicide reporting and uncovered what appears to be an unusually large number of ‘homicides recorded on death certificates that are not reported as murders by Biden’s FBI.’ … ”
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The FBI’s Biden-Era Murder Estimates Are Far Below the Number of Homicides Recorded on Death Certificates.
h ttps://www.justfactsdaily.com/fbi-biden-era-murder-estimates-homicides-death-certificates
It should be obvious: Democrats hide / suppress everything thing that reduces their appeal to voters.
It should not surprise us, therefore, that Democrats do not want the masses to know that certain policy goals (cough, defund the police and zero cash bail, cough) increased violent crime.
That’s because for the left wing truth is a ‘distraction’ keeping them from doing what they want so yeah they tend to try to bury the truth.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPYXrhOXkwU
Well if anyone ever gets around to state level audits re death vs homicide there were a lot of Covid deaths that were not really disease related cause of deaths. Additionally lots of unattended deaths of various known to law enforcement types may have been ruled natural causes or accidental. Oh and explosion of rapes and knife attacks+murders around the migrant hotels. Be a shame if some diligent investigation took place and checked with rank and file police and EMS personnel.
Because to Dems everything is political.
Portland Oregon is the utopia, that the libertarians liberals and leftists, have dreamed of.
Same for Seattle and San Francisco.
So much so they are exporting their success to other cities and states.
Wide-eyed true believers who want the world to be in their own image while ignoring the obvious dystopia.
The real Skynet is coming. Elon wants to sell his AI to the government to replace human warfighters. That should make him the words first Trillionaire. Look at his latest jab against the F35 and manned fighter aircraft
I would never patronize a club that subjects customers to a pat down to exclude guns. There are plenty of other strip clubs in pdx. That is the only reason to visit portland.
Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes is rapidly becoming a reality. Para Bellum.
More and more I see why public school has done everything it can to distance students from learning cursive, latin, and classical lit.
The Biden-Harris regime spent ~$84 Billion on ‘social justice’ paying DEI ‘contractors’ and ‘advisors’
People get caught up in the ideological battles. It’s a distraction while they raid the treasury. That was the entire point of the Puppet presidency. I said it from day one.
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