Portland cop slams 'hypocritical' Black Lives Matter protesters for their 'violent crowds full of white people' with 'fewer minorities' than the officers they are fighting

A black Portland cop has slammed 'hypocritical' crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters which include less minorities than the police force they are coming face-to-face with at demonstrations.  

Officer Jakhary Jackson made his comments about the movement's 'violent' participants in an audio interview released by the department on YouTube last week.

'It says something when you're at a Black Lives Matter protest, you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd,' he said in the recording. 

Jackson, who has served in the department for about a decade, shared his thoughts as a member of a rapid response team responding to demonstrations almost daily since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.

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Officer Jakhary Jackson called out Black Lives Matter protesters as being hypocritical after noticing more white people than minorities driving violence at demonstrations which has gripped the city for weeks

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Demonstrators stand over a burning dumpster during a violent protest in Portland last week. Jackson said: 'It says something when you're at a Black Lives Matter protest, you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd'

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Jackson shared his thoughts as a member of a rapid response team responding to demonstrations almost daily since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. A driver fires a gun in the air near demonstrators during a Portland protest on July 9

Riots have erupted in Portland following peaceful demonstrations that called for an end to police brutality and systematic racism.

Jackson described what it was like being a black cop at the riots in Portland, where he said white people have shown up and engaged in the very racist behavior they came to condemn. 

'You have white people screaming at black officers: "You have the biggest nose I've ever seen,"' he explained.

Jackson recalled experiencing racism firsthand as a youth. 

'I had been, when I was young, at a party and I got jumped by a group of white people,' he said. 'Me putting this uniform on doesn't erase that history that I've had.' 

He commended some of the protesters he has met, and was supportive of their calls for police reform. 

'I go to see folks that really do want change like the rest of us that have been impacted by racism, he said.

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However, their efforts, he said, were 'faded out by people that have no idea what racism is all about. Never experienced racism. 

'They don't even know that the tactics they're using are the same tactics that were used against my people and they don't even the history,' Jackson said. 'They don't know what they're saying.'

Jackson, a graduate of Portland State University with a degree in history, said the situation was 'actually frightening.' 

'I'm cool with people feeling like they want to help a movement, but when you go to a gentrified community and one of the first pictures I saw of one of the businesses looted was a black-owned business, I'm like "They're not even from here."'

'They don't know what they're even doing,' he added, accusing the outsiders of causing divisiveness. He mentioned a cousin of his attended a march and who commented, 'This has turned into something else. This is weird, very eye opening.'  

The ongoing protests in Portland prompted President Donald Trump to send in federal agents to quell the violence. US Marshals along with members of the Federal Protective Service, US Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations have been in Portland since the start or July. 

Last weekend, a peaceful protester, armed with only a music speaker, was shot in the head with a 'rubber bullet' and severely injured by agents who were sent into the city. 

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Pictured are federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security who were deployed to Portland to help deal with violent protests earlier this month

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Agents from the Department of Homeland Security are pictured among the reinforcements sent into Portland by President Donald Trump to quell violent protests

The disturbing incident on Saturday happened across the street from the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland during a demonstration against police brutality and racism.

The shooting was widely condemned by local and state officials who shifted the blame onto Trump's decision to send in reinforcements.

Another riot erupted outside police headquarters Tuesday. 

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Tuesday turned down an offer of help from the federal government to confront the continued violence. The offer had come from Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of Homeland Security. 

'Today the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security asked to speak with me about demonstration activity in Portland. He expressed his concern about ongoing violence and asked how his agency can help,' the mayor tweeted Tuesday.

'I told the Acting Secretary that my biggest immediate concern is the violence federal officers brought to our streets in recent days, and the life-threatening tactics his agents use. We do not need or want their help.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to the police department and Mayor Wheeler for comment on Jackson's comments. 

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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in a tweet on Tuesday (pictured) turned down an offer of help from the federal government to confront the continued violence in the city. The offer had come from Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of Homeland Security