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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnidentified 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."
Kid Berwyn
(17,678 posts)Another thing that works the same in every country, ja!
The Wizard
(12,815 posts)malaise
(277,353 posts)Fucking fascist! This has to stop
oasis
(51,494 posts)JmAln
(69 posts)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)I know the Forest Services Region 6 headquarters is in Portland, and theres 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)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)George II
(67,782 posts)Bev54
(11,851 posts)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)Any student of history will tell you, atrocities are only nipping at the heals of this sort of law enforcement. Where theres smoke...