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PORTLAND, Ore. After flooding the streets around the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, with tear gas during Fridays early morning hours, dozens of federal officers in camouflage and tactical gear stood in formation around the front of the building.
Then, as one protester blared a soundtrack of The Imperial March, the officers started advancing. Through the acrid haze, they continued to fire flash grenades and welt-inducing, marble-size balls filled with caustic chemicals. They moved down Main Street and continued up the hill, where one of the agents announced over a loudspeaker, This is an unlawful assembly.
By the time the security forces halted their advance, the federal courthouse they had been sent to protect was out of sight two blocks behind them.
The aggressive incursion of federal officers into Portland has been stretching the legal limits of federal law enforcement as agents with batons and riot gear range deep into the streets of a city whose leadership has made it clear they are not welcome.
I think its absolutely improper, Oregons attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, said in an interview Friday. Its absolutely beyond their authority.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-agents-push-portland-streets-161651734.html
Thekaspervote
(32,767 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 27, 2020, 12:24 AM - Edit history (1)
This is going to backfire on them. Telling people they have no constitutional right to assemble and protest. I sure hope those in authority latch onto that!!
Their mega phone blast to the protesters about it being an illegal assembly was done to spark a reaction so they could beat the shit out of them
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)He claimed the gestapo have not been in the street. Reporter corrected him, saying there's video, and he mumbled something about looking at that.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)triron
(22,003 posts)Fuck this shit.