{"id":102469,"date":"2020-07-21T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102469"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:14","slug":"christopher-david-gets-his-few-minutes-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102469","title":{"rendered":"Christopher David &#8211; Gets his few minutes of fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid4.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid4-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Christopher David fellow walked up to a group of Federal Riot Police and wanted to have a conversation with them while they were in the midst of clearing the streets.\u00a0 They communicated with him in short order.\u00a0 Of course, the Leftist Loons see him as a victim\/hero of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h1 id=\"link-2c4a3ac8\" class=\"css-rsa88z e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\">A Navy Veteran Had a Question for the Feds in Portland. They Beat Him in Response.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1smgwul e1wiw3jv0\">The veteran said he wanted to ask the officers whether they felt their actions violated the Constitution. Video shows them tear-gassing him and smashing his hand with baton blows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Christopher J. David had largely ignored the protests in downtown Portland, Ore., but when he saw videos of unidentified federal agents grabbing protesters off the street and throwing them into rented minivans, he felt compelled to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. David, a Navy veteran, said that federal agents\u2019 use of violent tactics against protesters, without the support of the mayor, the governor or local law enforcement, was a violation of the oaths that agents take to support, uphold and defend the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">And so, on Saturday, he took a bus downtown to ask the officers how they squared their actions with that oath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Instead of getting an answer, Mr. David was beaten with a baton by one federal officer as another doused him with pepper spray,\u00a0according to video footage of the encounter. After he walked away from the confrontation, Mr. David was taken to a nearby hospital, where a specialist said his right hand was broken and would require surgery to install pins, screws and plates. He declined pain medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t even paying attention to the protests at all until the feds came in,\u201d Mr. David said in an interview on Sunday night. \u201cThat\u2019s when I became aware.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Federal police strike protester with baton, use pepper spray and tear gas outside courthouse in Portland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VX2xTVaaYq\">pic.twitter.com\/VX2xTVaaYq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zane Sparling (@PDXzane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDXzane\/status\/1284726088187310080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Protesters have been in the streets of Portland for more than 50 consecutive days, in response to the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis. The arrival of federal officers in the city has re-energized the demonstrations, which continued on Sunday night, with tear gas once again deployed by U.S. agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, said on CNN that he was \u201cfamiliar with the video\u201d involving Mr. David and that \u201cmaintaining an appropriate response is an ongoing obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. David, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former varsity wrestler who has lived in Portland since 2006, said he had attended only one protest before \u2014 a march for women\u2019s rights in Washington, D.C., in 1989. As a 53-year-old man with health concerns, he said that the risk of the coronavirus was reason enough to stay away from downtown Portland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cIt just didn\u2019t seem worth it to me at that point, but it reached that threshold when I saw Pinochet-type behavior from our own government,\u201d he said, referring to the Chilean dictator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">With his mind made up, Mr. David grabbed a backpack with some essential items \u2014 migraine medicine, nicotine gum, his wallet and ID cards \u2014 and took a bus downtown, arriving near the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse about 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The courthouse has become\u00a0a focus of protesters, as well as the federal Homeland Security agents who have been dispatched to protect it. But the response by those agents in Portland has prompted a backlash over whether the officers are exceeding their arrest authority and violating the rights of protesters by detaining demonstrators in the area around the federal courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">On Mr. David\u2019s backpack were patches commemorating his time as an officer in the Navy\u2019s Civil Engineering Corps, serving with the construction battalions \u2014 the famed\u00a0Seabees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">He also wore a heather gray sweatshirt with the word \u201cNavy\u201d emblazoned in blue across the top and a ball cap for the Academy\u2019s wrestling team. He wanted the officers to know by sight that he was a veteran, and someone they could talk to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cI identified the hell out of myself for a reason, I want to give them pause so we could talk,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I wanted to go down there to tell them that I believed they were not following their oath to the Constitution. That was my goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">By 10:45 p.m., Mr. David was just about to leave to return home, he said, when some protesters began removing fencing around the courthouse and federal officers emerged. He made his way to a clutch of federal agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">A video shot by Zane Sparling, a reporter with The Portland Tribune, captured what happened next. Officers in camouflage and gas masks beat Mr. David with batons and blasted pepper spray at his face. The shaky cellphone video shows him briefly shoving away the hand of the officer with the spray-can before turning around, walking away and defiantly throwing up the middle fingers of both hands. He turned and faced the officers again, raising his middle fingers even higher \u2014 though a strike from a baton had just shattered his dominant right hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Internet users quickly called him \u201cCaptain Portland\u201d for barely flinching at the blows. Noting how at 6 feet 2 inches tall he towered over the officers, some people compared him to the \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d character known as the Mountain.\u00a0On Twitter, he went from having a handful of followers before the encounter to more than 60,000 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cMy life has turned pretty dramatically weird,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the story from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/20\/us\/portland-protests-navy-christopher-david.html\">nytimes<\/a> anyway.\u00a0 \u00a0But,\u00a0 in my opinion, Lt. Sparkle Pony is getting just what he wanted&#8230; a short burst of fame.\u00a0 \u00a0Since everyone wants to title him as a Navy Veteran I took the opportunity to check his basic service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavidscra.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavidscra.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavidscra.png 757w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavidscra-270x300.png 270w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavidscra-299x333.png 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chrisdavid3-333x333.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems he did indeed serve in the Navy and attended the Naval Academy.\u00a0 Lt.\u00a0 David knew exactly what he was doing and planned to make a spectacle of himself.\u00a0 He slathered himself up with Veteran patches with sole purpose of getting himself confronted by officers.\u00a0 Where has Lt David been while all the victims of these &#8220;Protests&#8221; have been injured and killed?\u00a0 Christopher David did not have the courage to stand up against the murder and attacks on innocent people by these mobs.<\/p>\n<p>No,\u00a0 Christopher David walked up to a group of Officers trying to put an end to this nonsense and then has the temerity to act as if he is standing up to some kind of tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>The tyranny has been coming from the &#8220;Left&#8221; Christopher.\u00a0 \u00a0Enjoy your few minutes of fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christopher David fellow walked up to a group of Federal Riot Police and wanted to &hellip; <a title=\"Christopher David &#8211; Gets his few minutes of fame\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102469\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher David &#8211; Gets his few minutes of fame<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":102475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,224,472,328,87,131,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-darwin-awards","category-democrats","category-diversity","category-general-whackos","category-i-hate-hippies","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102496,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102469\/revisions\/102496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}