Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has led the charge to defund the police in her leftist hellhole. While she doesn’t want anyone in the city to be safe, she would still appreciate it if the cops would protect her. Recently she called 911 when a Lyft driver wouldn’t let her roll up the window because of COVID-19 safety protocols. If you’re keeping score at home it’s: no cops for real crime but yes cops when she’s feeling chilly and entitled.
Before we get going, they tell me this is a woman:
Yikes.
The Oregonian got a hold of Hardesty’s 911 call as well as the Lyft driver’s version of events. Richmond Frost has been a Lyft driver for four years and handled more than 18,000 rides. On November first he got a call to pick up “Jo Ann” at a Casino. When he got there, she was nowhere to found. He called her and it turns out she was waiting in the wrong place. Once in the car, Hardesty gave him shit because she doesn’t understand how to call a ride-share.
The shit continued because Frost had the windows rolled slightly down, which is part of Lyft’s COVID-19 safety precautions.
“I did say, ‘It’s for my safety and your safety.’ But that was like pouring gas on her fire. She demanded that I close that window right now. She was kind of ballistic at that point,” said Frost.
Hardesty continued to berate Frost so he decided to terminate the ride.
“She was not a pleasant person,” said Frost. “I’m out here doing my job. She was very disrespectful to me, made me uncomfortable. I don’t feel like I have to sit in a car for anyone to have to argue unrelentingly and be rude and abusive, telling me what I have to do in my own vehicle.”
He pulled into a well-lit gas station and asked her to exit his vehicle. He told her to call another car and that there would be no charge for the portion of a ride she did receive.
She refused to get out of the car and then called 911 on Frost.
“Well, I’ve got a Lyft driver that decided he would just drop me off at a filling station. Well, I’m not getting out of the car, in the dark, at a filling station, not happening – all because I asked him to put the window up. I’m not leaving,” Hardesty told the 911 dispatcher.
The dispatcher told Hardesty several times that what she described wasn’t a crime, that it was a civil matter, noting that the car was the driver’s property. Hardesty still asked police to respond.
“I paid for a ride. He says he canceled it. So I’m going to sit here until he sends me another ride,” said Hardesty.
“Do you understand only you can order another ride?” the dispatcher asked.
Hardesty still refused to get out of the car, so Frost called 911 on her. Eventually police came out just in time to see Hardesty get out of Frost’s car and jump into another Lyft vehicle she called.
As the Oregonian noted:
The encounter puts a spotlight on Hardesty at a time when the veteran politician has worked to shift money away from the Portland police budget and tried to find alternatives to relieve police of handling a flood of 911 reports on scenarios that don’t involve crimes. Hardesty oversees Portland’s emergency dispatch system.
That actually doesn’t do her contempt for the police justice. Def-Con News wrote about this whacko back in July when federal agents had to defend the federal courthouse against the Portland rioters.
On Wednesday, City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty blamed the Portland Police Bureau and Mayor Ted Wheeler for exacerbating violence in Portland and effectively welcoming federal law enforcement agents to the city.
She also leveled an incendiary charge at Portland cops: Hardesty claimed it was they, not protesters, who had started fires around government buildings.
…Hardesty went on to say she doesn’t believe Portland protesters have caused violence or started fires. Instead, she claimed, any such action was carried out by plainclothes police officers embedded in crowds of peaceful protesters.
Hardesty has stated that the police should be defunded because most calls they get don’t involve any actual crimes and they aren’t needed. She sure needed them when non crime was committed though.
