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CentralMass

(15,455 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:19 AM Jul 2020

Unidentified federal agents in camo and rented minivans are grabbing people off Portland's streets

https://theweek.com/speedreads/926070/unidentified-federal-agents-camo-rented-minivans-are-grabbing-people-portlands-streets
"President Trump has sent an unknown number of federal agents to Portland, Oregon, ostensibly to project federal property amid weeks of protests against racism and police brutality. But federal officers "are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren't near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity," OPB reported Thursday evening. One civil rights lawyer, Juan Chavez, described the federal tactics as "like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay" and "more like abduction" than lawful arrest."
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Unidentified federal agents in camo and rented minivans are grabbing people off Portland's streets (Original Post) CentralMass Jul 2020 OP
CIA Renditioning Kid Berwyn Jul 2020 #1
Somewhere Himmler smiles (NT) The Wizard Jul 2020 #2
So much for President Law and Order malaise Jul 2020 #3
No press conference by Portland PD? Why? oasis Jul 2020 #4
This opens the door for JmAln Jul 2020 #5
Exactly how much federal property is there in Portland? jmowreader Jul 2020 #6
The focal point is a federal building that was vandalized on the first night of protesting CentralMass Jul 2020 #7
Where the hell is the MSM and state officials????? Bev54 Jul 2020 #8
This was on the front page of the big, bad "MSM" New York Times this morning. George II Jul 2020 #9
Well that is good maybe now Bev54 Jul 2020 #10
Warning: This is not normal. Duncan Grant Jul 2020 #11

JmAln

(69 posts)
5. This opens the door for
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:51 AM
Jul 2020

right wing militia groups abducting people off the streets. These folks have the kit to look to like real feds without the insignia.
Then Trump secretly funnels money to these groups, and we have the gestapo on the streets of the America!

jmowreader

(51,322 posts)
6. Exactly how much federal property is there in Portland?
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 12:02 PM
Jul 2020

I know the Forest Service’s Region 6 headquarters is in Portland, and there’s a very famous federal courthouse...but gee guys, if you were going to pick out a city to test goon squads in under the pretext of protecting federal property, there are cities with much more of it within.

CentralMass

(15,455 posts)
7. The focal point is a federal building that was vandalized on the first night of protesting
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jul 2020

Windows were broken, a fire was set in the building. The building has seen been the focal point of the "after hours" protests. The area has been fenced off with police on one side and protestors, some bent on destruction on the other.

Bev54

(11,851 posts)
10. Well that is good maybe now
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 12:59 PM
Jul 2020

we will see it on cable news because no word about it. They seem to report only what others report first

Duncan Grant

(8,453 posts)
11. Warning: This is not normal.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jul 2020

Any student of history will tell you, atrocities are only nipping at the heals of this sort of “law enforcement”. Where there’s smoke...

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