Oregon officials angered as uninvited federal officers deploy

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The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 17, 2020 8:07 AM ET | Last Updated: 43 minutes ago

... Mayor Ted Wheeler and other local officials have said they didn't ask for help from federal law enforcement and have asked them to leave ...

"This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety," Oregon Gov. Kate Brown tweeted. "The President is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government" ...

The federal response has greatly concerned Oregon's representatives in Washington, D.C. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, both Democratic senators, as well as Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer of the House of Representatives, have written U.S. Attorney General William Barr to demand answers into how the federal officers were deployed and the scope of their activities.

"A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump's secret police," Wyden tweeted on Thursday. "Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media" ...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/oregon-portland-federal-officers-1.5653221

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Where are law suits folks?

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2. Unidentified federal officers in unmarked minivans

Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post
Updated: 1 hour ago calendar Published 1 hour ago

When several men in green military fatigues and generic “police” patches sprang out of an unmarked gray minivan in front of Mark Pettibone in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his first instinct was to run ...

He was detained and searched. One man asked him if he had any weapons; he did not. They drove him to the federal courthouse and placed him in a holding cell. Two officers eventually returned to read his Miranda rights and ask if he would waive those rights to answer a few questions; he did not.

And almost as suddenly as they had grabbed him off the street, the men let him go.

Pettibone said he still does not know who arrested him or whether what happened to him legally qualifies as an arrest. The federal officers who snatched him off the street as he was walking home from a peaceful protest did not tell him why he had been detained or provide him any record of an arrest, he told The Post. As far as he knows, he has not been charged with any crimes ...

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/07/17/unidentified-federal-officers-in-unmarked-minivans-detain-portland-protesters/

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3. Federal officers are pulling Portland protesters into unmarked vehicles

N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY
Published 9:29 a.m. ET July 17, 2020 | Updated 10:07 a.m. ET July 17, 2020

... The U.S. Marshals Service told OPB that their officers did not arrest or detain Pettibone and declined to comment on the use of unmarked vehicles.

Protests in Oregon's largest city following the police killing of George Floyd have continued for 47 days. In the past two weeks, federal officers sent to Portland by President Donald Trump have escalated tensions, particularly after an officer with the U.S. Marshals Service fired a less-lethal round at a protester’s head on July 11, critically injuring him ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/17/reports-federal-officers-detain-portland-protesters-unmarked-vans/5457471002/

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R...for visibility...

This is some Gestapo level shit.

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5. Deploying 'Secret Police' in Portland as Political Stunt

BY CHANTAL DA SILVA ON 7/17/20 AT 7:35 AM EDT

... "A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump's secret police," U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote in a tweet.

"Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media," Wyden said.

Fellow Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley also weighed in, writing in a tweet: "Federal forces shot an unarmed protester in the face. These shadowy forces have been escalating, not preventing, violence" ...

The goal, Brown said, appears to be to look "for a confrontation in Oregon in the hopes of winning political points in Ohio or Iowa" ...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-accused-deploying-secret-police-portland-political-stunt-1518595

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Where are Oregon's other three House members?

Especially the the Republican, who should be screaming from the rooftops about this egregious violation of the peoples' "rights".

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7. Greg Walden (R) is retiring

Probably just coasting to the finish line. Don’t know why DeFazio (my rep) hasn’t been vocal.

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8. Silence is a form of assent /nt

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9. Where are the "Patriot Militia"?