(CNN) Suspicions of looting have driven some residents of an Oregon county to illegally stop unfamiliar drivers at gunpoint, all while much of the county is under an evacuation order as wildfires rage.
Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts said several people in the county, in efforts to "protect property," had been conducting armed checkpoints, stopping cars they didn't recognize.
"The first thing I'd ask them to do is please stop that," Roberts said during a Sunday news conference. "It is illegal to stop somebody at gunpoint."
The sheriff's office has already reached out to "a number of them," he said. Many of the people reentering the area were going back to retrieve their personal belongings.
"The last thing I want to see is anything tragically happen because somebody is overreacting to something," he said.
bookykits on September 14th, 2020 at 20:47 UTC »
These people want a police state so bad they DIY'd one.
Terakian on September 14th, 2020 at 20:37 UTC »
Put this in any other environment, and how are these people not immediately being arrested!? Think if the police heard in downtown Chicago or NYC that random people were blocking streets, and they were walking up to cars with guns asking to “see papers.” And their defense was that they were “protecting their nearby property.” What!?
wutthefvckjushapen on September 14th, 2020 at 18:15 UTC »
What a bunch of god damn fuckwits