Navy vet Christopher David: "Our city has been turned into a war zone intentionally"
Christopher David, of Portland, Ore., attended the U.S. Naval Academy for four years, and afterwards served as an officer for eight years in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps. He recently attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, where he was attacked by federal officers, as seen in a video that went viral. He talked with "CBS Sunday Morning" about his experience:
I saw on Twitter or on TV, there's video of men wearing combat fatigues with no insignia, essentially abducting people from the streets of Portland and putting them in unmarked vans.
I was very concerned about that. If we can't identify who these people are, then anybody could buy surplus military uniforms and start abducting people off the streets of Portland. It's a very slippery slope.
One of the things I wanted to do was try to speak to some of these law enforcement officers and find out why they thought they were still honoring their oath to the Constitution when they were doing unconstitutional things. I wanted to go down and see what this was all about.
This was actually my first protest. I waited around for a couple hours. Nobody came out of the courthouse building. So, I decided I was gonna head home at that point. And that's right around 10:45. And they came out sort of in a phalanx running. And I saw that and I walked out of the park into the street right across from the courthouse, and I stood there and after they were sort of done with the people in the intersection, they came swarming around me.
It was so loud and they were so hyped up I was basically having to yell, "Why are you violating your oath to the Constitution?" I don't think they heard me. They were not interested in dialogue.
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