Portland police agreed to pay former Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty nearly $700,000 in a lawsuit settlement after officers allegedly leaked false information about her involvement in a hit-and-run to the Oregonian.

Jo Ann Hardesty spearheaded the movement to defund the police and has even demanded Mayor Ted Wheeler hand her control of the police bureau.

Hardesty originally sought $3 million from the police association, $1 million from an officer, and another $1 million from another officer, but they settled out of court. She was mistaken to be a hit-and-run driver with a 911 caller back in March of 2021. An officer had shared that information with a friend who was an activist who later shared the information on a live stream.

Hardesty was cleared of the hit-and-run but decided to sue the police association and 2 officers.

Fox News Reported:

The police union in Portland, Oregon, and two officers agreed to pay a former city commissioner $680,000 to settle claims that they leaked information falsely implicating her in a hit-and-run.

Jo Ann Hardesty’s lawsuit seeking $5 million was scheduled to go to trial this week. A jury would have been asked to decide if police racially discriminated against Hardesty, the first Black woman to serve as a Portland city commissioner and a staunch advocate for defunding the police in 2020.

The city of Portland settled its portion of the lawsuit in August for $5,000 and a written apology from Mayor Ted Wheeler.

The dispute began in March 2021 when a 911 caller mistakenly identified Hardesty as the driver who rear-ended her and fled the scene.

A Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officer leaked the accusation to an activist friend who later shared the information on a livestream, an internal review conducted last year found. Then-union president Brian Hunzeker also leaked the false information to a reporter, according to Hardesty’s lawsuit.

During her time as city commissioner, Hardesty routinely lashed out at police. She called for defunding the Portland Police during the 2020 riots and even alleged that police “‘saboteurs’ were starting fires and infiltrating the crowds of protesters who took over Portland’s streets for more than 100 consecutive nights,” according to Fox News.

Her extreme stance to defund the police and turn Portland into a trash pile of crime, cost her reelection.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on Hardesty in 2020 when she had called the police on a Lyft driver over Covid protocols even though she had called for the defunding of the police.

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California Democrat Maxine Waters appeared on MSNBC this past weekend and claimed that Republicans are not patriots and that they want to destroy America.

Under Biden, Democrats have done massive damage to the economy through inflation and are causing the suffering of Americans across the country with the open border. Also, has she looked at her own district lately?

Leave it to Maxine Waters to engage in such projection. She is a bitter and hateful woman.

RedState reports:

WATCH: Maxine Waters Says Democrats Protect Patriotism, GOP Wants to Destroy America

Few — if any — lawmakers on Capitol Hill are as wack as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). Not only does the far-left Democrat spin absurd, hateful yarns, intentionally dripping with divisive language, but I’m also convinced that she actually believes every distortion that comes out of her mouth.

During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” Mad Max was at her ‘best.” In response to Capehart’s faux attempt to catastrophize a budget proposal from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to cut federal spending by “as much as 23 percent,” Waters spewed:

Oh, absolutely. When you take a look at what they’re doing, it shows, you know, that the Republicans have claimed patriotism — claimed that they love this country. They don’t care. If they will allow seniors and veterans not to be able to get their disability check [sic], for example, they don’t care…

Meanwhile, a couple of questions, Congresswoman:

Please explain to me how taking money from hardworking Americans and giving it to people who didn’t earn it is patriotic.

And while you’re at it, please explain what the heck you’re talking about with respect to the Republican Party planning to deny seniors and veterans their social security checks.

Here’s the video:

"[The GOP] are not patriots, they are basically, not only disrupting this country, they're destroying it, and they cannot claim patriotism anymore. We, who fight for the people, claim patriotism" @RepMaxineWaters reacts to the budget cuts the Republicans want to make #SundayShow pic.twitter.com/sFtzlaJBt8

— The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (@weekendcapehart) September 24, 2023

Note the fact that Waters is incapable of making this a debate about policy. She just reduces it to her own personal hatred, because that’s the kind of person she is.

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