Portland, Oregon. Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) reportedly applied pepper spray to a man who approached him about the city’s COVID-19 guidelines outside a restaurant on Sunday.
A police report first reported by The Oregonian indicated that Wheeler was followed to his car by a man who was recording it on a cell phone and harassing him about an alleged violation of city rules.
Wheeler told police he tried to respond to the man by explaining that the city’s coronavirus restrictions allow residents to go without a mask while eating or drinking at a restaurant, and warned him that he would receive pepper spray if he did not back down – which he did not do. do, according to the report.
From the police report written by Sgt Peter Simpson, after receiving a call from Robert King, Wheeler’s public safety advisor. The incident occurred around 9 pm. Sun: pic.twitter.com/RjAt9Fp6AJ
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Wheeler’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Officials across the country have been the target of real and perceived violations of their own established guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19; in neighboring California, Gov. Gavin Newsom
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