Mayors Want US Agents Blocked From Portland, Other Cities

[appalachiablue]

Source: AP News

By ANDREW SELSKY and ARON RANEN.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayors of Portland, Oregon, and five other major U.S. cities appealed Monday to Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to deploy militarized agents to cities that don’t want them.

“This administration’s egregious use of federal force on cities over the objections of local authorities should never happen,” the mayors of Portland; Seattle; Chicago; Kansas City; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Washington wrote to leaders of the U.S. House and Senate.

Video from early Tuesday showed law enforcement officers filling a street with gas to disperse protesters. Several loud booms could be heard.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty late called for a meeting with Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to discuss a cease-fire and removal of heightened federal forces from Portland...

Read more: https://apnews.com/ebe8e681d99c3c790ee66e8089e67fdf

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Demonstrations in support of racial justice and police reform in other cities around the U.S. were marred by violence over the weekend. Protesters set fire to an Oakland, California, courthouse; vehicles were set ablaze in Richmond, Virginia; an armed protester was shot and killed in Austin, Texas; and two people were shot and wounded in Aurora, Colorado, after a car drove through a protest...

[NonPC]

1. Tie It to the Relief Package

If the Repugs want to include liability protections for business, and Trump wants to redo the FBI building for $2B, then let's add this to the bill.

[appalachiablue]

2. Good suggestion

[Bayard]

3. No to any of those things

Businesses trying to worm out of their responsibilities, or another trump vanity project. That money is sorely needed to fight the pandemic.

trump's troops are stirring up violence, as another campaign ploy--look how tough I am. Smart of these mayors to engage Congress.

[onetexan]

7. +1 K&R

[azureblue]

4. Just stop them

Don't let them enter the city don't let them rent vehicles, don't let them rent hotel rooms, don't let them do anything without proper ID. If they have no papers that proves they are trained federal law enforcement officers, then arrest them for impersonation. Even the prison guards. If they are traveling in vehicles, confiscate the vehicle for suspected use in the commission of a crime. Make them show they are authorized to operate outside of federal property and if they have nothing to prove that then confine them physically to federal property.

Quit litigating this crap. Come down hard first then litigate later.

[azureblue]

5. protesters

the ones causing the destruction have been proven to be white supremacists - that's what happened in Richmond. It's not the protesters, its the instigators and the infiltrators who are destroying property. Where was it - Minneapolis? - where a white guy dressed in black was caught breaking windows with a hammer. At the same time in protests in other cities the same dressed guy was caught doing the same thing. The window breaker scurried of real quick when he saw he was being recorded.

[Karma13612]

6. So Barr just lied (gasp!)

In his testimony when he said that mayors were requesting that the Feds help.

But, no one called him on it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Kick