War Crime Violation: It Appears Fed Officers Pepper Sprayed The Medical Supplies In Portland

[kpete]

The Geneva Convention states that destroying medical equipment is a war crime violation. Yet, here we are in Portland

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[Jamastiene]

1. I will never forget when I heard that the Hague wanted the first Bush for war crimes.

Only other countries ever get punished for war crimes. America gets away with everything horrible it wants to do. And we have some truly horrible leaders right now and have had in the past. It's sickening.

[Mike 03]

2. The longer we allow this to continue, the more difficult it will be to stop.

You're starting to hear the normalization of this, as with Jake Tapper yesterday. (to paraphrase): Well, maybe there is some logic to this... You have to admit, there are problems on the streets of Portland... blah blah

He wasn't the only one.

[Volaris]

5. The only 'problem' on the streets of Portland,

Is that a buncha 40yo white women figured out its damn good for a free soul to tangle with outright fascists.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. +1

[riversedge]

3. whow. and now these #Trump-Barr agents have been deployed to 3 other cities.

[IronLionZion]

4. Geneva conventions don't work on fascists oppressing their own citizens

remember when this was the sort of thing that happened in shithole countries? And then Republicans would use it as an excuse to give trillions of dollars to defense contractors to go to war with countries that do this to their own citizens?

MAGA means turn America into a 3rd world dictatorship

[jaxexpat]

6. 67 years old and never imagined I'd see this in the US.

When this becomes acceptable we deserve the worst.

[triron]

7. please send this to Rachel (Maddow)

[w0nderer]

9. K & R N/T

[McCamy Taylor]

10. Good grief!

[AllaN01Bear]

11. where is the state police , the national gaurd , the democratic gov and mayor of portland ?

[DarleenMB]

14. In court.

that's why nothing is getting done. The lawyers have to follow the rule of law. The thug in the White House just makes up his own rules.

[flibbitygiblets]

15. Mayor Ted Wheeler was there protesting, got pepper sprayed

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213794882

Nat Guard ultimately controlled by trump it seems.

Governor Brown has repeatedly called for feds to get out. State attorney general has filed suits, and asked for temporary injunction. Were waiting for court response any minute.

[cate94]

12. This is outrageous

Disgusting fascists.

[Lock him up.]

13. Saddam Hussein would be proud...

Thanks, Republican criminals who think they're above the law on a crime spree.

[Reader Rabbit]

16. They also pepper sprayed the Riot Ribs cooking grills.

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[WyattKansas]

17. I thought that I heard Shit Stain yesterday on tv blathering about rioters spreading the virus in..

The hotspots popping up. Gee, it's not like heavily populated areas and places people are crowded together are not magnets for the virus, but what else can we expect from a shit stain that hasn't paid attention to science about the virus the last 8+ months.

Is there an effort to shift the virus blame onto protesters from Shit Stain & Republicans with the actions of his Federally Police Army?

[malthaussen]

18. It's not a war.

Which is interesting. What is happening in Portland would be criminal in time of war (at least, if done to one's enemy), but in Trump's World it is just business as usual.

-- Mal

[triron]

19. "They're coming to take me away"

[triron]

20. knr

[LiberalFighter]

21. They need to be prosecuted.

[Karadeniz]

22. This happened at a protest a month ago or so. I can't remember where it was, DC or Minn.

[Moostache]

23. Document and save...there WILL be war crimes trials for this son of a bitch and his henchmen.

Trump
Barr
Wolf

ALL of them are going to stand tall before the man and answer for this...
I am going to DEMAND this much from the Biden administration, period.

The other thing these "agents" better familiarize themselves with - "just following orders" is NO DEFENSE AT ALL.

*Do crimes against humanity require a declared war or not?* (really don't know...)

[Blue Owl]

24. Fuck the Trump Goons

n/t

[Cha]

25. WTF were they thinking? just plain Stupid? Rt!

[Cha]

26. 40.7K Retweets and comments 74K Likes❤️😷

[usajumpedtheshark]

27. I'd rather see tRump administration prosecuted for crimes against humanity

[ancianita]

28. I want to see a national tribunal to try those "following orders," along with their fuhrer.

[Kaleva]

29. Grave breaches, such as rape and murder, are considered to be war crimes under the Geneva Convention

This doesn't come close and one shouldn't attempt to make the act of pepper spraying medical equipment equivalent to what Jews and others suffered in concentration camps.