Last Friday I wrote about a curious case of arson that happened a police vehicle lot in Portland.
When Portland police arrived at a department training facility to help with a fire on Thursday morning, they found at least 15 patrol vehicles burning.
The Portland Police Bureau is searching for a suspected arsonist who they believe set the cop cars on fire around 1:55 a.m. while the vehicles were parked in a fenced training area, the department said in a news release.
The police said they were investigating but they knew it was arson because they apparently had video of a masked suspect cutting through a fence and then setting the cars on fire.
It seemed likely to me (and I said so) that there was a connection between the arson of the police cars and the police action taking place at Portland State University. Now the connection seems to have been made, not by police but by the…
