On June 1, 2020 — five years ago this month — three thousand protesters descended on downtown Portland, Maine in response to a call to action from the local chapter of the militant Marxist hate group Black Lives Matter. The crowd jammed the streets and obstructed traffic, beginning around 7 pm.
As soon as darkness fell, the “peaceful protest” on behalf of career criminal Saint George Floyd turned violent.
Hundreds of demonstrators began swarming police cruisers and threatening to kill the cops. Over the next several hours, the rioters hurled rocks, bricks, and bottles of urine at the officers. Four businesses were looted, and dozens of others had windows smashed and graffiti spray-painted on their storefronts.
Police made 22 arrests, all for misdemeanor failure to disperse, but the Cumberland County District Attorney dropped all the charges a few months later.
(Can you imagine how the DA would have handled a MAGA mob that threw projectiles at police officers?).
Gov. Janet Mills had nothing to say about the dangerous, disgusting assault on police officers coming just months after she declared a public health emergency and imposed a COVID lockdown that shuttered churches, campgrounds, public parks, and beaches. For some reason, Gov. Millstone’s tyrannical executive orders didn’t include any that forbade throwing bodily fluids in a crowded public space.
The day after the Portland riot, Mills raised concerns about President Trump’s planned trip to visit Puritan Medical Products in Guilford later that week. Mills said she was concerned that Trump’s presence in Maine “might create unrest,” and she asked him not to come.
Meanwhile, Mills’ charlatan-in-chief at the Maine Centers for Disease Control was likewise notable for his silence about the mob violence in Maine’s largest city. Dr. Shah Nah Nah couldn’t find his voice to comment on the lack of social distancing when three thousand deranged Biden voters jammed downtown Portland. One would think he would at least have a word to say about the risks inherent in hurling bodily fluids into a crowd.
Mills’ love affair with felons and her contempt for the rule of law haven’t wavered over the past half decade. She’s now taken sides with the insurrectionist mobs in California who are demanding that violent criminal aliens arrested by ICE be released and granted amnesty.
Gov. Millstone regards the anarcho-communist rioters in Los Angeles with the same affection she lavished (by her silence) on the Portland rioters during the summer of love in 2020.
History will not be kind to Janet Mills’ memory. She hates Donald Trump more than she loves America.
As she enters her last year in the Blaine House, let’s recall those timeless words of wisdom penned by New England’s most outspoken opponent of tyranny, Samual Adams, and apply his words to our fellow Mainers who still respect Gov. Millstone:
And this:
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Let’s double down on Adams’ admonition between now and November 3, 2026.
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First President