Biden decries clashes in Portland as federal officials defend efforts to end protests

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the Trump administration was deploying Department of Homeland Security officers in Portland without clearly defined goals, even as department officials defended their efforts to eliminate violent protests.



“We have a president who is determined to sow chaos and division,” said Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump on Nov. 3. “To make matters worse instead of better.”

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Biden said federal authorities tear-gassed peaceful protesters before Trump walked across Lafayette Square to pose with a Bible for photographs in front of St. John’s Church.

“We all remember the appalling scenes in front of the White House, when peaceful protestors were gassed to make way for a Trump photo op,” Biden said. “We need a president who will bring us together instead of tear us apart, calm instead of inflame, and enforce the law faithfully rather than put his political interests first.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chaos-and-division-biden-decries-clashes-in-portland-as-federal-officials-defend-efforts-to-end-protests/ar-BB171jiv?li=BBnb7Kz

[mr_lebowski]

1. Annoying they chose to throw 'violent' in front of 'protests' ...

Protests where graffiti and even looting of unattended businesses are happening are not 'violent'. Those are property crimes.

They are destructive, but unless protesters are at minimum throwing rocks at the cops or beating up uninvolved civilians or the like, they are not 'violent' protests.

Reality is it's these fucking goons who are TRYING to PROVOKE violence. Clearly.

[abqtommy]

2. The surest path to ending the demonstrations is for a mass resignation of tRUMP and the

reTHUGS and the installation of adults in charge of things...