'It was like being preyed upon': Federal officers in unmarked vans detain Portland protesters

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 17, 2020 | Katie Shepherd

[artichokegrower]

When several men in green military fatigues and generic "police" patches sprang out of an unmarked gray minivan in front of Mark Pettibone in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his first instinct was to run.

[artichokegrower]

Federal officers from the U.S. Marshals Service and Department of Homeland Security have stormed Portland's streets as part of President Trump's promised strong response to ongoing protests.

New sheriff in town

[Sarah Barracuda]

Good!!! These Antifa scum deserve to be treated like the scum they are..they hate America yet they want to be treated with “Respect” respect is a two way street..want to spit upon America, trash the country, they are free to leave anytime for North Korea

[lerker]

too bad, if they came in marked cars, the antifa lookouts would warn folks.

[marstegreg]

And they have not preyed on anyone?
What a bunch of hypocrites!

[Principled]

i just came here for the vids ....

[cgbg]

Parachute drop the Antifa folks over North Korea.

They can seek legal counsel there...

[DeFault User]

So this was just “catch and release”? At least the perp may need to change his underwear.

[Alas Babylon!]

“We didn do nuffin”, rich white boy/trust fund baby style.

[Disambiguator]

Parachute Helicopter drop the Antifa folks over North Korea.

Fixed.

:^)

[ClearCase_guy]

"I think Portland is test case," Zakir Khan, a spokesperson for the Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told The Post. "They want to see what they can get away with before launching into other parts of the country."

Yes. The insurrection in Portland is really a Vast Rightwing Conspiracy engineered by Trump just to see what he can get away with. Uh huh. That's the ticket.

[americas.best.days...]

Lol. Total lack of self awareness.

I wonder how normal people that live in the neighborhoods affected feel?

[centurion316]

'It was like being preyed upon'

Oh no, Mr. Bill! Say it's not so. I am going to cry myself to sleep thinking of these poor peaceful protestors. /Sarc

Actually, I'm going to break out the brown whiskey and raise a glass for our Federal law enforcement preserving our liberty and freedom by keeping the peace.

[GnuThere]

“Stormed” Portland’s streets.
Nothing biased about that.

[piasa]

The guy in the picture looks like he kind of enjoys being arrested.

[Grampa Dave]

“Parachute drop the Antifa folks over North Korea.”

HALO drops with the Antifa’s holding their chutes and having to get into the harnesses.

[chief lee runamok]

Federal response to portland terrorists is the ticket the leftist moron leaders in portland and across the US have been goading the president to respond too.

See how quickly portland's mayor and cronies jumped on the "overwhelmingly violent federal response to peaceful protest" band wagon.

[NicoDon]

From the comments at the end of the article, it looks like even the liberals reading that site think that its justified.

[SMARTY]

“See how quickly portland’s mayor and cronies jumped on the “overwhelmingly violent federal response to peaceful protest” band wagon.”

Of course, the mayor and cronies were spoiling for a confrontation, all along. That’s really what all this is, anyway

[joshua c]

Hoax? He was grabbed up by police but he cant say which service. He was jailed then released. No paperwork? No charges? No order to appear? No evidence whatsoever that it happened and it plays right into their narrative.

[Jim Noble]

The videos are great. And very interesting.

As the scum is being cleaned up, their cohorts are shouting “NLG will get you out”.

I assume NLG is the National Lawyers Guild, and they are allied (at least) with this terrorist organization, if not running it themselves.

Needs a close look.