An open letter to Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese

Multnomah County (OR) Sheriff Mike Reese.

First, for those unfamiliar with the situation and why I’m writing this post in terms of an open letter to a fellow Sheepdog, I provide the following background from a number of news sources.

First, from KGW.com, the local NBC affiliate in Portland, Oregon.

ICE not alerted when sex assault suspect released from jail in 2016, official says

PORTLAND, Ore. — A man accused of breaking into a 65-year-old woman’s home, sexually assaulting her and stealing her car was arrested after allegedly assaulting another woman and running from police.

Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, was caught July 24 after officers chased him through a neighborhood.

Of course this is not the most egregious part of the story. Read on.

According to court documents filed in March 2017, Martinez has a history of illegal entry into the United States. He has been a transient in the Portland area for more than a year and has been deported 20 times.

That is not a typo. Martinez has been deported twenty times.

Martinez has at least five probation violations for re-entering the United States. His most recent removal was in November 2016, according to the March court documents.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer against Martinez, asking authorities to notify them before releasing Martinez to allow ICE to take him into custody. The Department of Homeland Security said a detainer was requested for Martinez in December 2016, but he was released into the community and authorities did not notify ICE.

Released by whom? The Multnomah Sheriff’s Office, whose sheriff is in charge of the jails in that county, one of 36 in Oregon. Portland is within Multnomah County and is in fact not only the largest city in Oregon but the county seat as well. The next paragraph is vastly disappointing.

Earlier this year, Multnomah County leaders and Sheriff Mike Reese wrote a letter to the community saying, “The Sheriff’s Office does not hold people in county jails on ICE detainers or conduct any immigration enforcement actions.”

This story went global too, as illustrated by the UK’s DailyMail.com.

Illegal Mexican immigrant, 31, who was deported TWENTY times ‘rapes woman, 65, at knife-point’ just months after Portland released him from jail under ‘sanctuary’ policy

by Keith Griffith

  • Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, charged in assault on two women in Portland Monday
  • Martinez has lengthy history of arrests, illegal entry and deportations to Mexico
  • Admitted meth and heroin user told jail staff that he drinks up to 10 beers a day
  • Portland jail officials released him in December in defiance of federal request
  • State of Oregon has forbidden local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE 
  • Now Martinez is accused in sickening sex assault on a 65-year-old stranger

An illegal immigrant with a long history of deportations to Mexico, and who was released by local jail officials in defiance of a federal immigration hold, is now accused of raping one woman and assaulting another in a sickening crime spree.

Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, is charged with 13 counts – including burglary, kidnapping, sodomy and sex abuse – in the knife-point attacks on two women in Portland on Monday.

But wait, there’s more.

Six months ago, on December 7, jail officials in Portland had Martinez in custody when they received a request from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, asking the jail to notify ICE before his release.

What happened?

Yet the local officials released him the next day in defiance of the federal immigration detainer, an agency spokeswoman told the Oregonian

Oregon has a state law forbidding local law enforcement from using any resources to enforce federal immigration law.

Stop. Correct. Oregon has a law from 1987 entitled the Revised Statutes 181A.820.

The criminal spree on Monday began around 7pm, when a suspect broke through an open window into a 65-year-old woman’s home, on NE Halsey street in the Sullivan’s Gulch neighborhood.

The suspect, who police say was Martinez, used scarves and socks from her closet to bind and gag the woman before sexually assaulting her, according to court documents reported by Fox12

Martinez slammed the elderly woman’s head into the wooden floor, punched her, and stole her phone, credit cars, and car, speeding away in it, according to police.

The woman was able to get to a neighbor’s home and call 911.

The crime spree continued unabated. There was yet another female lawful Oregonian victim to come.

Just hours later, police say Martinez had made his way to a parking garage, where he crouched in a dark corner until he spotted a woman.

He approached the woman saying he wanted to ‘talk’, but then produced a knife and forced the woman to walk towards her car, according to police.

Her plight, luckily, was not quite so dire as the first victim of Martinez, the 20-time and ignored potential deportee.

He is now charged with two counts of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, two counts of second-degree assault, one count of kidnapping, two counts of burglary, two counts of robbery, three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and one count of first-degree sodomy.

Bail has been set at $2.36million in the case.

Please also see the Breitbart.com article here.

And now comes my letter.

Dear Sheriff Reese:

I, like many others, find the recent events involving the processing of Sergio Jose Martinez through your jail both confounding and shocking, simultaneously.

I’d have thought, would have hoped, that you’d been better than that. Instead, I find you in lockstep with some seriously twisted elements in our society. Elements political in nature and, truthfully, the most political in nature.

Those elements who simply wish to do away with the terms “illegal” and “alien” and for that matter, “citizen.” Because what is a citizen if not “lawful” in the eyes of the state itself? Are there true citizens? Or are there merely “occupants”?

You’re a “new” Sheriff and not an entrenched official. That provides you some leeway.

You seem to, however, have aligned yourself with the wrong elements when you created a recent investigation, from KOIN.com:

Sheriff Reese investigates deputies helping ICE

by Jennifer Dowling

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese said Thursday his office is still investigating a number of emails showing that his deputies were involved in assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

In a normal world, this would be a normal act. That is to say, an act committed by those wishing to see that justice is served. These days, an abnormal act.

This is you, sir, drawing a line. A line that didn’t reflect your entire good will but instead reflected your political interests and those of the persons to whom you answer or to those to whom you believe you answer.

Separate and disparate.

You have an incredible opportunity here. You have the opportunity to set a precedent not unlike that of another sheriff, in Texas, via Sally Hernandez in Travis County.

She showed remarkable heroism. I must admit.

For the wrong side. You can weigh in afresh and strong.

I challenge you sir to, at minimum, pen a letter to the victims — plural, both women — of the illegal alien your department released directly back into the community, apologizing for your actions and ensuring them your lockstep obedience of injurious and corrosive Oregon laws will end and cooperation will occur between your department and ICE in terms of timely notification for relevant holds and detainers.

I challenge you, sir, to further step up to the public podium and take the necessary political stand against so-called sanctuary cities and states because you are full well cognizant of the deleterious and life-altering consequences of allowing serial illegal alien criminals to continue abusing Oregon laws originally designed to protect the lawful citizens of your state.

Repudiate your most terrible of laws. Take a stand. Sally Hernandez did. You can do no less. Take a stand. Or simply stand by and watch your citizens be scourged by more aliens completely uninvested in your area.

Signed,

BZ

This, Sheriff Reese, has been my open letter to you.

One final question to you, Sheriff Reese.

What are you?

Are you a Sheep?

Or are you well and truly a Sheepdog?

The only one who can make that decision is you.

BZ

P.S.

For those unfamiliar with the relationship between sheep, wolves and Sheepdogs please see my post here about Lt Col Dave Grossman’s article entitled “On Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs.”

 

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18 thoughts on “An open letter to Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese

  1. Save your breath. Oregon has an extreme leftist Governor and will continue to lead this state down the same path as California. The Feds should withhold all money from this state, period. Governor Kate Brown and the state legislature are in lock step with Bloomberg and his agenda.

  2. Do you really believe he will man up? I feel for the victims and I feel for the deputies that face the public on a daily basis. Bet that puss sits behind his desk and avoids the public.
    The deputies need to turn their backs on him at every occasion.

  3. This is nuts. Sheriff Reese is perfectly ok with releasing into the population 20 times and alien who rapes women and commits endless crimes. He needs to be fired and held accountable for allowing this man to rape on his watch. ICE should have deported him permanently but Reese cares more about the Aliens than he does the community that pays taxes and follows the law.

    • The sheriff didn’t create the 1987 Oregon law. BUT he CAN do something about it as other LE officials have around the nation. But yes, agencies SHOULD work with ICE if they truly care about reducing crime in their jurisdictions.

      BZ

  4. Truly sad, and what happens when this guy kills somebody? Will he step up and assume responsibility? Or will the sheriff run for cover of his minders in the statehouse?

    • No. Just as former San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi took no responsibility for Kate Steinle. Mirkarimi WAS, however, voted OUT of office next time around.

      BZ

  5. I still cannot comprehend how federal laws can be ignored by cities and states. Is this perceived by some as an issue of states’ rights? That a state/city can pick and choose which laws to obey? If so, let’s bring back segregation, for example, in some southern town and see how long that flouting of laws lasts.

    The well being of citizens appears to be no importance while the ‘rights’ of illegal aliens are paramount. (Similar situations are occurring in Europe where migrants must not be criticized under penalty of prosecution (depending on the country)).
    No, no, they must be protected at all costs.
    Law abiding citizens must shut up and go along or be branded with the label du jour. Citizens down, illegals up! Citizens bad, illegals good. Protect the illegals, chastise the citizens!
    Isn’t it interesting that this mindset can be found in such disparate places…

    Side question: would there be any grounds for a lawsuit against the good sheriff for endangering the lives of these women?

    • Leftists LOVE the federal system until it conflicts. Now they want the 10th to take supremacy.

      Yes, you can instigate a suit. You’d also have to consider the political situation of the county in which you filed. Consider Multnomanh and Portland.

      BZ

  6. The victims in this case need to sue the hell out of the Sheriff’s office and the Governor. If I was the husband of these victims, I would be planning to murder everyone involved. Give Sheriff Mike Reese the gas chamber.

  7. I am so ashamed of this so-called Sheriff and his support for a policy that in it’s simplicity says, “Illegal Aliens First, and American Citizens Last”. What Law Enforcement Officer, in his right mind would allow the Criminal acts of someone , so vile and so determined to violate our Laws, to continue, without any regard for the Real American Citizens, this Sheriff is supposed to protect!!
    I am Demanding, as should all the Citizens of this County, that this Sheriff Resign!! ….As an American War Veteran and Marine, I do NOT want someone (allegedly), who is supposed to be protecting the People of America, to allow disgusting Anti-American Policies, to inflict Pain and Suffering on Honest American Citizens. I along with many Combat Veterans did not protect our borders and our Country, so “Political Cardboard Cutouts”,…like this Sheriff could allow the “Enemy” inside our Homes. RESIGN,….You are a Disgrace!

  8. The problem with the sheepdog analogy is that the sheepdog always works for a master and obeys the commands of the master. In this case the master says ignore the safety of the sheep, and let wolf out among the flock. The master says the sheep should have no means of defending themselves from the wolf, so the sheepdog runs out to the flock and takes their means of defense away.

    In the linked article, he claims that should the sheepdog injure a member of the flock he is removed, but in many cases he isn’t removed, but left to continue in the job.

    I’m not saying that all cops are bad, but when you shoot sheep because you are startled, or in fear of (Insert excuse) you need to go.

    • I understand what you’re saying. And I believe you’re referring to the most recent shooting in Minneapolis. To my way of thinking I have not yet seen a mitigating factor for that shooting but my overall knowledge of the fact pattern is not complete.

      BZ

  9. Oregon will never change.
    Illegals like this doing things like this will never learn and always do this when released.
    Only one way to stop this is castration and jailed permanently,,,,or just shot and thrown into the Trinity River and let the resident alligators have a meal.

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