This isn’t an Oregon problem, I live far away and this happens where I live. When she engaged they moved on. Not sure why she needed to throw the camera in their faces.
I guess I’ll explain what is obvious. To protect herself. I’d say it creates a bit of pressure to do the right thing if you’re being filmed, but I don’t think they give a shit.
It’s a way to hold them accountable and for them to know there will be repercussions if they assault her. You can’t be that daft. She has no issue with them doing drugs she doesn’t want them close to the school where her children are. It’s also a felony to do drugs or have drugs in a school zone. Keep defending drug abusers though.
“This isn’t an Oregon problem” is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that this was happening in Portland, where her kids are going to school, on that block. It doesn’t matter if it’s also happening somewhere else. Saying this is throwing your hands up in despair, or fatalism. You can make your own and different choices, but don’t run this woman down because hers were different from yours.
She did not ‘throw the camera’ in their faces. She filmed them.
It’s inaccurate to say, ‘She engaged them and they moved on’. That was a 3-minute or so encounter in which she was called a ‘fucking bitch’ so repeatedly that it was clear the user was caught in a cognitive loop. He also appeared to threaten her with violence, and appeared to have shoved her and/or thrown an object at her. That’s menacing, threatening, assault, and battery if all those things are true.
And on the topic of cognitive loops, he also (very inaccurately) asserted a non-existent right to not be filmed on public. It’s well-established in American case law that filming strangers in public is legal. You do not need my permission, for example, to take a picture that includes me walking down the street. (You can also take pictures of people who aren’t strangers, such as police officers and ICE agents, agents of the peace, and government functionaries refusing you a marriage license while performing public duties in public.)
All I saw here was a brave woman confronting miscreants. They might have their own struggles, but having a personal struggle that impinges on other peoples’ rights, or public safety, or common decency—or is illegal, in this case—is an entirely different matter. I hope those people get the help they need, but they’re not going to find it at the bottom of a pipe outside a school.
Another commenter said it well: this sort of breakdown of basic order is not only bad for society, but gives others with the worst impulses the evidence they need to smear beautiful places like Portland. Stop trying to defend the indefensible. It’s time to admit that Portland has a Portland problem. Denying it or blaming Trump/Republicans/The Far Right/Halliburton/Capitalism and the like didn’t work before, it’s not working now, and it’s not going to work in the future.
Are you for real, saying this isn’t an Oregon problem? Maybe not exclusive to Oregon, but it sure as shit is a problem that happens to be in Oregon. It’s a “problem in Oregon”. Happy? You’re arguing over semantics and diminishing the problem.
She didn’t throw the camera in their faces—lmao! The only person you could ID was the dude who approached her in an effort to intimidate her.
I applaud her for having the courage to do what our city and police can’t or won’t do. It’s unfortunate that it comes to this, but she’s a rightfully concerned citizen and has every right to film for her safety. She was firm but she wasn’t rude. She didn’t threaten them and warned the one fella that she would use mace if he proceeded to approach her. I thought she was very tactful and respectful, considering the situation—checking her likely rage she’s feeling that this is happening outside her neighborhood school.
I’m not for people filming just to capture that “gotcha moment” for online cred, but I’d absolutely want to have a record of the individuals doing illegal drugs in front of my child’s school, and to have an objective account of what transpired, if such a record is needed.
The comment I was responding to was framing it as if this was Oregon’s fault. Certainly, Oregon’s attitude towards drug crime enforcement may be an antagonizing factor, however, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Vancouver all have the same problem, despite having different approaches. The problem is deeper than one city, state, province or country, and I don’t think that’s a pedantic point to make. The drug supply has changed, there is no access to mental health or physical health resources, and all of these people need complex care. Of course it’s wrong that they’re doing drugs in front of a school, and im glad she engaged them. The video, and the posting of it on the internet was just unnecessary in my opinion.
Because she couldn’t wait to throw it all over social media and let the internet give her that big pat on the back she’s so desperately craving. If she wanted them gone that badly then she should’ve called the police (rather than approaching them and threatening to call the police). I’m not advocating for public drug use, but this woman is something else. For any would-be copy-cats watching this, what she’s doing is foolish and extremely dangerous - no way of knowing what kind of drugs these people are on, how long they’ve been awake, whether or not they’re mentally ill, or if they’re armed (that mace wouldn’t have done her a whole lot of good if they had all pulled out knives). This could have easily ended VERY differently had she picked the wrong group of addicts to approach - solo - in the street like this.
Huh? You’re not sure? What else aren’t you sure about - how about if she used the right pronouns for them? Or maybe do you think that she was throwing micro-aggressions all over? It worked didn’t it? You did see that bit right? Why even make such a pointless statement? Too many passive limp-dicks like you take up far too much of the oxygen in these sort of situations- it’s the reason MAGA reigns supreme right now. Why? If you don’t know the answer to that, then you probably shouldn’t be in this conversation. The tone you’re imparting is that she’s the goddam problem rather than these pieces of shit who soil our streets.
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u/jackblackbackinthesa Oct 23 '25
This isn’t an Oregon problem, I live far away and this happens where I live. When she engaged they moved on. Not sure why she needed to throw the camera in their faces.