Six masked vandals smashed up a coffee shop about 3 a.m. Wednesday in apparent retaliation for a planned “Coffee with a Cop” event that had drawn angry online comments, according to the proprietor.
Alerted to the damage by neighbors immediately afterward, Bison Coffeehouse owner Loretta Guzman said she arrived at her Cully neighborhood cafe to find patrol cars parked outside and the shattered storefront’s plate glass windows still crackling.
“I’m just kind of numb right now,” she said Wednesday afternoon. “It was planned. It wasn’t just random.”
Guzman said police officials had asked her to host a two-hour event for community members interested in talking to officers. Guzman agreed.
But when the 52-year-old posted the event on social media with the hashtags “#positiveoutreach” and “#weliveforthefuture,” her page was flooded with dozens of angry messages.
“I was just hoping people from the community could bring their concerns, their questions — because there’s a lot of questions right now that people have for the police,” she said.
Hours after Guzman’s post, the cloaked figures showed up bearing hammers and crowbars, she said, citing surveillance camera footage. The business owner said the vandals never stepped foot inside but appeared to have some sort of paint sprayer that misted much of the store, including Native American art and the authentic stuffed bison head mounted on the wall.
Guzman is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, and her father, Garry Guzman, operated East Side Motorcycle on the Cully Boulevard property for four decades.
The attack lasted only a minute, Loretta Guzman said, but inflicted “thousands and thousands” of dollars in damage.
Guzman said she started sweeping up glass and scrubbing off the white paint, then spent the rest of the night cooking, as all of the shop’s pastries are prepared in-house.
The windows of the store have since been boarded up, and Guzman said the event with police officers went on as planned on Wednesday morning.
“I’m hoping they’re trying to make a change from all the stuff that happened over the years,” she said of the Portland Police Bureau. “You don’t have the answers, but maybe you can try to figure things out, to make things better.”
“That was my thought — at least we can try,” she said.
— Zane Sparling
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“You don’t have the answers, but maybe you can try to figure things out, to make things better.”
#1. Stop voting for Democrats.
#2. Stop believing anything from Democrats.
#3, Stop being DemoRats and following the Democrat’s Pied Piper.
And as in the story the Pied Piper will come after your children, which the Liberal Democrats have already started doing.
The town of Hamlyn was once full of rats. They ate all the food, troubled sleeping babies, and made a lot of noise. The people had grown tired of the rats but were unable to do anything. Even the cats were not able to kill the rats.
One day, a queer fellow with piercing eyes, came to town. He was called the Pied Piper. He went to the Mayor and asked him, “What will you pay me if I free your town of every single rat?” The mayor offered fifty pounds to the Pied Piper.
Happy with the offer, the Pied Piper started playing his pipe. Hearing the shrill, keen note, every rat came out from its hole and started following him. The Pied Piper kept on playing his pipe and the rats followed him. The piper walked up to the harbor with millions of rats behind him and led them into the water and waited till every rat had drowned.
Now the town was free of the little devils and the people were very happy.
After all the rats were dead, the Pied Piper returned and asked the Mayor for his money. The Mayor said that he could only give him twenty pounds for such an easy job. Now that the rats were dead, the Mayor thought that there was nothing to worry about. But the Pied Piper wanted to teach him a lesson. This time he played a different tune. Hearing his music, the children came out of their houses. They started following the piper, dancing and shouting. The elders watched in disbelief as the Pied Piper led the children far, far away. The Mayor sent his men to look for the piper and bring the children back but none could find the lost children.
Bet there will be someone willing to help by just asking and will have authority to do what is necessary to safeguard the business.
No doubt the Portland officials who were instrumental in defunding and curtailing the police were ecstatic when they heard this, they have created the aura of distrust and hatred and now the innocent have to suffer!
AND You can bet, no charges will ever come, to the perps..
all good people left in portland should leave and let the libtard fascist burn it to the ground.
That’s assuming they financially CAN move.
The reign of terror of these cowardly thugs in Portland needs to end. By. any. means. necessary.