A Portland commissioner seeking control of the city’s police department apologized on Thursday for promoting a conspiracy theory that undercover police officers were the ones setting fires and committing other crimes during recent unrest.
“Sometimes I screw up. And yesterday was one of those days that—it was very emotional, and I made some remarks that were out of the context that I would have liked to put it in,” Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, a Democrat, said in a virtual press conference.
