Portland Man is beaten by a grifter in grisly attack

Ben WilsonJanuary 4, 2023

A Democratically-run city has seen record levels of crime

Getty Images Ben Wilson • January 4, 2023 3:50 pm

A 78 year-old man was subject to a brutal attack that saw part of his face removed. This happened in Portland, Oregon where crime has soared under Democratic leadership.

Koryn Kraemer 25, an assailant attacked the victim at Gresham train station on Tuesday. Police reported that he had broken his skull. Kraemer had to be removed from the victim’s body by the first responders when they arrived at the crime scene.

Investigators are trying to determine whether drugs played any role in the attack. According to local ABC affiliate, the assailant was reportedly using fentanyl before the attack. reported.

The brutal attack came as Portland established a new homicide record for 2022. 100 homicides As of December 29, The homicide rate in Democratic-run cities increased by 207 percent between 2019 and 2021. This was a far greater increase than the crime rates in San Francisco, Atlanta and Minneapolis which also saw a rise in recent years.

The Democratic governor Kate Brown, who was elected to the governorship by her party in November, has been criticized for being too soft on crime. Brown granted clemency in April to a man who had shot and killed a teenager girl, but failed to inform the victim’s relatives. In December, the governor was also granted clemency. commuted All Oregon death sentences have been overturned, provoking outrage among the families of the victims.

“I’m horrified and outraged and I don’t know what this means,” Sue Shirley, whose parents had been murdered in 1988, spoke up. “All I know is that we never get to have a say.”

Multnomah county, where Portland is county chair, is located in Multnomah. dismissed 300 criminal cases were closed between February and December 2013. Total of 2,500 felony cases were affected by delays and dismissals because there was not enough defenders.