Posted on 07/23/2020 11:28:33 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
At least three federal officers could be left permanently blind after they were attacked with lasers by protesters in Portland this week.
The officers, part of the Federal Protective Service, were injured during rioting in the city on Monday night as they attempted to keep anti-government demonstrators from gaining entrance to a federal courthouse in the city's downtown area.
“When officers responded to put out these fires, glass bottles were thrown and lasers – which can cause permanent blindness – were shined in their eyes,” said Deputy Director of Operations Richard Cline. “We have three officers who currently have eye injuries and they may not recover sight in those eyes from those laser attacks.”
Demonstrators set fires near the property, broke windows, and spray-painted the barricades outside the courthouse.
Cline said the FPS has purchased anti-laser glasses that officers are now wearing as they guard the federal complex.
Seven people were arrested during the demonstrations Monday night, police said.
President Trump last week deployed federal officers to the city to protect the area from what he described as "anarchists" who "hate our country."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It is not. The BLM and Antifa are both run by leaders who are admitted Marxists and that they want to overturn the nation and replace the rule of law with their own control.
Open Sedition.
The ComDem have turned this into Political Theater, used to try and steal the November election. It is our duty to stop them.
Are there any types of glasses that can prevent eye damage to counter these acts of aggression?
Flamethrowers are needed on these crowds.
Uh, they aren’t “protesters” or “demonstrators”.
Just rioters and looters and vandals.
And it is all being staged by the Rat party, in the latest attack on Trump.
The DNC (Democrat Nazi Communist) party rioting in the streets of America is a terribly cynical way to stir up dissatisfaction. While it is true that unhappy voters tend to vote against incumbents, all PDJT needs to do is COMMUNICATE the simple fact that it is a bunch of DNC politicians who are promoting, enabling, encouraging, and protecting (by issuing stand-down orders to police trying to defend American citizens and their property).
Prayers for those officers. And the mayor went with the mob last night to attack the federal building. Headlines read the feds attack mayor with teargas.
The bastards that committed this crime must be apprehended and prosecuted in the federal courts and do a minimum of 20 yrs. Let’s see if the FBI can do this right.
Um... did you read the article?
Yes - among other options: https://www.amazon.com/IPL-Safety-Glasses-200-1400nm-Protection/dp/B00UJ7R6GK
Pretty much any type of glasses would prevent it. Lasers only work because the photons in the beam are totally coherent, so any kind of refraction is going to quickly change a laser into a regular old beam of incoherent light.
This is digusting. I think I’m gonna be sick........
Eventually the constitutionalists are going to have a urban hunting season and F#%^^ these people up....the politicians too.
The feds are well within their rights to employ deadly force against these terrorists
Supposedly our military has a microwave crowd control weapon that makes their skin feel like its on fire. Time to use it.
Laser shiners should be shot in sight. Period.
And if you try to light a building on fire and you know I’m in it, I’ll empty my magazine right at you.
Sick of pansy codling!!!!
“Pretty much any type of glasses would prevent it.”
So I’ll make sure to put my contacts in the container and wear my glasses the next time I attend one of my Antifa/BLM/angry mob shindigs. I could be a victim of “friendly fire.” ;)
WHY are they still calling the violent rioters “protestors”?
Why?
It is beyond disappointing that the fairly conservative Washington Examiner falls into the trap of calling them “protesters.” As you both point out, they are anything but. They are revolutionaries, anarchists, communists, marxists, useful idiots, and tyrants-in-waiting bent on overthrowing the USA.
There have been no protesters from the day the first building was burned in Minneapolis.
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