Homeless man who threatened Portland mom & son gets probation after 220+ arrests

[GhostofDempsey]

Homeless man who threatened Portland mom and son gets probation and health services with 68th conviction

A homeless man who is one of Portland’s most frequently arrested people is getting a chance to get drug, alcohol and mental health treatment instead of prison time for his most recent convictions this week — for threatening a woman and her minor son as they cowered in their locked car.

Brian Ray Lankford, 50, was sentenced to three years of probation through the Multnomah County Justice Reinvestment Program, which also is geared to help him find stable housing.

Lankford has been arrested more than 220 times in the past decade and — as of Monday — convicted 68 times for crimes including misdemeanor theft, trespassing, harassment, disorderly conduct and interfering with public transportation, according to his court file. He often has been sentenced to fines, short stints in jail or probation in which he was not actively supervised.

On Monday, Lankford pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon and menacing after a woman arrived home in August 2017 to discover Lankford behind her Goose Hollow-area home, just a few blocks from Portland State University. She told him to leave, and he began swinging a 3-foot-long tree branch toward the woman and her son, who had retreated to their locked car and called 911, investigators said.

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019...onviction.html

[GGG Gloveking]

He'll be back on something like trespassing, hoping to get some jail time. It's getting colder, and he's going to want somewhere warm to stay for the next few months

[1bad65]

This is what happens when liberals coddle criminals and pass laws that disallow law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves and their property.

[Mighty_Windir]

I believe as an American, we have a duty to help people in need who are living through tough times and concurring difficulties.

We cannot keep turning a blind eye to the necessities of our fellow brethren, who count on us for their safety and livelihood.

With that said, its time to build a wall around Portland.

We couldn't save the city, but dang it we can still try to save Oregon

[WarVeteranO01]

Im surprised no1s kicked his ass. The best thing about homeless/junkies is they wont tell or even if they did, who'd believe them? Street justice is needed for this 1.

[Rip Chudd]

I believe as an American, we have a duty to help people in need who are living through tough times and concurring difficulties.

We cannot keep turning a blind eye to the necessities of our fellow brethren, who count on us for their safety and livelihood.

With that said, its time to build a wall around Portland.

We couldn't save the city, but dang it we can still try to save Oregon

Cali needs that wall as well

[turnedup]

This is what happens when liberals coddle criminals and pass laws that disallow law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves and their property.

yeah let’s let law abiding people murder people with disabilities because we don’t want to pay for, real with, or enforce better mental health directives for hospitals. So I suppose we should round them up and gas them because they are inferior human beings..always the idiots tossing around this verbiage of yours when they absolutely can’t be bothered to look at the overall problem..oh wait they can you did for your argument over guns you sack of shhh. Sucks for the woman and her kid and they should never have to deal with this but let’s toss a finger over the sun and pretend it ain’t there because it’s easier to be a cvnt about the second amendment right than to be a human being about our neglect of the mentally ill..

[turnedup]

I believe as an American, we have a duty to help people in need who are living through tough times and concurring difficulties.

We cannot keep turning a blind eye to the necessities of our fellow brethren, who count on us for their safety and livelihood.

This right here is the moral value we as a nation have lost in this era of our history..sick we went from a nation united to groups of feuding factions because divided we are easier to manipulate and control. We went from being the beacon of bravery, protector, empathic, and hope to not giving a shh

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Imagine being a cop in a far left cesspool and having to arrest, release, arrest, release, arrest, release the same diseased contagious junkie literally every day until you've spent more time with him than with your spouse.

Never actually helping them. Never actually putting any pressure on them to help themselves. Just catch and release so some whacky catlady governor can flaunt her "humane policies" to her whacky catlady voters and the poverty/drugs/disease continue to spread.

[1bad65]

yeah let’s let law abiding people murder people with disabilities because we don’t want to pay for, real with, or enforce better mental health directives for hospitals. So I suppose we should round them up and gas them because they are inferior human beings..always the idiots tossing around this verbiage of yours when they absolutely can’t be bothered to look at the overall problem..oh wait they can you did for your argument over guns you sack of shhh. Sucks for the woman and her kid and they should never have to deal with this but let’s toss a finger over the sun and pretend it ain’t there because it’s easier to be a cvnt about the second amendment right than to be a human being about our neglect of the mentally ill..

I cant even start to count the number of strawmen in that wall of text.


If you'd like to address my post without fallacy, I'll be here waiting.....