Unidentified Federal Agents Detaining Protestors in Portland, OR
Militarized Federal Agents are Seizing U.S. Protesters
This is how Democracy’s are turn into Authoritarian Dictator regimes.
The latest footage of the Secret Police, AKA Trump’s Gestapo in Portland shows how Trump is behaving like a Banana Republic Dictator. Trump threatens freedom. Trump threatens democracy. Trump threatens America.
Tear gas deployed as federal officers, protesters clash in Portland
In scenes that bring to mind dictatorial regimes around the world, unidentified federal agents are snatching protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, and throwing them into the back of rented minivans. Videos of some of the encounters have gone viral this week, and on Thursday, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) confirmed the story, reporting that law enforcement has been detaining demonstrators in this fashion at least since July 14. On Friday, the federal law enforcement activity prompted an ACLU lawsuit and the state’s U.S. attorney, Billy Williams, to call for an investigation.
Trump’s Acting Homeland Security Chief Admits Arrests Are Coming BEFORE Crimes Committed In Portland
Acting Homeland Security Chief Chad Wolf admitted on Fox News Tuesday evening that the arrests being carried out by DHS officers in the city of Portland are “proactive” arrests, meaning that they are taking place before a crime has been committed. They are now policing crimes that don’t even exist yet, further proving that the United States has inched even closer to becoming a sci-fi dystopian nightmare.
Trump Threatens To “Take Over” Crime Ridden Democrat Cities
The President is drunk with power, and painfully ignorant of the law. Earlier this week, he actually threatened to “take over” what he called “crime-ridden” Democrat-controlled cities because they were in such bad shape. There is no truth to this statement, and there is no evidence to suggest that crime has taken over any US cities.
Navy veteran hit with baton… pepper-sprayed by Unidentified Federal Agents
Navy veteran Chris David tried to talk with Federal Agents to ask them why they were doing what they were doing. Their response with to beat and pepper spray him
Portland protesters said that federal agents scoured the streets and made arrests in unmarked vans on July 15. Conner O’Shea described hiding in a bush after agents chased him.
A Constitutional Crisis in Portland
UPDATE: In response to our lawsuit, a federal court on July 23, 2020, issued a temporary restraining order blocking federal agents in Portland, Oregon, from attacking or arresting journalists and legal observers. I’ve been documenting violent and militarized police responses to protests in Portland for more than four years, but nothing prepared me for the unrestrained brutality I’ve witnessed and experienced in recent days.
Night after night, since the police killing of George Floyd, people have been taking to the streets to demand an end to racist policing and a new vision of public safety for our community, one that protects the safety of our Black community members. Police in Portland, who have their own history of killings, have been meeting those demands with violent attempts to silence the protests.
While some federal officers had already been in the streets, we now have additional militarized special ops officers occupying the streets of downtown Portland, bent on inflicting pain and terror on people who believe Black Lives Matter.
Federal agents, including those from Trump’s Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, are terrorizing the community, threatening lives, and relentlessly attacking protesters demonstrating against police brutality.
Militarized federal agents have flouted court orders protecting the rights of protesters from local law enforcement attacks, used sharpshooters to maim people, and deployed military tools and tactics — including sonic weapons and tear gas. Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland have been shot in the head with kinetic impact munitions, swept away in unmarked cars, and repeatedly tear gassed by federal agents. These government-issued weapons are funded with our tax dollars.
This has to stop. We cannot sit idly by and accept this as the new normal — in Portland or anywhere else in this country. And we must not let federal or local law enforcement suppress or control what people know about their violent tactics by attacking journalists and legal observers. Public transparency is a baseline requirement for democracy and accountability.
Remember: Without people filming the police, the officers who murdered George Floyd would never have had to answer for his death.
That is why the ACLU of Oregon took our local police department to court, and secured a court order blocking its unconstitutional attacks on journalists and legal observers. And that’s why we’re taking the federal agents to court, too. We will not rest until law enforcement agencies — at all levels of government — are held accountable for their brutal, inhumane, and unconstitutional attacks on the people of Portland.
Pentagon: Esper concerned about law enforcement officers wearing military garb
Defense Secretary Mark Esper Mark Esper Overnight Defense: Guardsman to testify Lafayette Square clearing was ‘unprovoked escalation’ | Dems push for controversial Pentagon nominee to withdraw | Watchdog says Pentagon not considering climate change risks to contractors Democrats urge controversial Pentagon policy nominee to withdraw Portland: The Pentagon should step up or pipe down MORE has expressed concern within the administration about federal law enforcement officers wearing military-style uniforms while responding to protests.
