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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Photographer Says He's Traumatized By What He's Captured In Portland
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/portland-photographer-takes-picture-officer-pointing-weaponPhotographer Mathieu Lewis-Rolland was on scene at Monday night's antipolice brutality protests in Portland when he captured a striking image: a federal officer pointing their weapon directly at him.
The officer, like many currently in the city under orders from the Trump administration, is wearing a camouflage uniform, a helmet, and a gas mask as he stares directly at the camera.
The evening of violence left Lewis-Rolland extremely shaken. "I hadnt seen the feds raise their guns like they did tonight," he told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview Tuesday. "I saw them pointing them at everybody and anyone, including me."
"Last night was the most horrifying thing I have ever experienced in my life," he said. "I got shot at, gassed more times than I can imagine."
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Penn Voter
(247 posts)MineralMan
(146,350 posts)in that group of federal goons. No name tags. No nothing. They are anonymous, like Empire Storm Troopers. That is intentional. Faceless, nameless thugs.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,657 posts)TheRickles
(2,102 posts)I didn't have any luck with a brief Google search - MNI is an international "targeted media" company, or Malaysian Newsprint Industries, or Montreal Neurological Institute, etc.
Any bloodhounds out there? Thanks.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,657 posts)The shoulder patch there is ZT1. Maybe a unit number?
And that guy has a round "United States Marshal" patch just below the shoulder patch. The guy in the first photo also has the round patch but it's difficult to see.
niyad
(113,860 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,116 posts)come to this point in America MM.
This is so terrible that it takes someone much better than me to put it into words. All I can garner is anger.
woodsprite
(11,940 posts)I told him I tried, but he refused to listen to me and actually got quite angry with me.
live love laugh
(13,204 posts)tblue37
(65,528 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Good article...thanks!
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Lochloosa
(16,083 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,356 posts)paleotn
(18,012 posts)Seems a segment of America still has a strong jackboot, fascist streak, to go along with their racism. Deplorables is way too light a term to describe them. Fucking sacks of shit seems more fitting. They need to be carved out of this nation like a cancer and destroyed.
Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)They have always cried that they need their guns to keep the federal government from encroachment on locals.
BS.
I don't see any of them downtown with their long guns now.
Lilaclady
(72 posts)Can someone identify all the gear hes wearing?
delisen
(6,046 posts)FirstLight
(13,367 posts)I can't take much more of this... my stomach is in knots and my migraine just kicked back in.
We cannot let this become the new normal, Trump is pushing ALLLL the buttons for full out coup.
oh.my.god.
Evolve Dammit
(16,817 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)Regular folks under assault from an unwelcome force.
Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)But it is. Shame on US Marshals for being used this way. ETTD.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,116 posts)niyad
(113,860 posts)TheRickles
(2,102 posts)The marshals were supposed to be the ones who would escort Trump out of the White House in handcuffs....
Good photo, though. Very high resolution, so the USM patch is unmistakeable.
(I can't figure out how to upload my blow-up photo of the patch - anyone have any tips for uploading an image that isn't posted anywhere online and has no URL?)
paleotn
(18,012 posts)Pull the goddamn trigger. You piece of fucking shit!!
Federal law enforcement needs a thorough scouring when this is all over. These people need to spend the rest of their miserable lives shoveling shit.
Hekate
(91,005 posts)woodsprite
(11,940 posts)Stuart G
(38,458 posts)..That picture is worth more than 10,000 words
........U.S. Troops/Marshals pointed loaded guns at protesters, and shooting..
I believe Trump is in more trouble than ever...but we will see.
Trump ordered this, with armed weapons
That picture will get around everywhere.
,,,,,it will take time, but everywhere..pointing guns at protesters...& shooting..
paleotn
(18,012 posts)it isn't stopping the protests. It's stirring them up even more, which may be Barr's point. If so, they're badly misreading the situation. At some point, someone is going to get killed by these nazi goons and this will be one more albatross around the necks of Donnie Two Hands and his Rethuglican minions in Congress. One more reason why they will lose large in November. God, they're stupid.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Using force to combat protests against excessive force is not going to work.
This is going to get really ugly.