‘Secret Police in Our Streets’: Camouflaged Federal Officers in Unmarked Vans Arrest Protesters in Portland

lawandcrime.com ^ | Jerry Lambe

[RoosterRedux]

Federal law enforcement officers clad in camouflage uniforms and body armor — without any visible identification — have been using unmarked vans to grab and detain protesters in Portland. That’s according to reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) on Thursday evening.

According to the report, the officers were predominantly sourced from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Patrol’s Tactical Unit (BORTAC). They were sent to the area with orders to protect federal property amid ongoing protests against police brutality. However, videos and witness accounts provided to OPB and several other news outlets show the officers detaining people who are not near any federal property and putting them in unmarked rental minivans.

*snip*

Juan Chavez, director of the civil rights project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center, described the tactics to OPB as “stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay.”

The federal intervention was not requested by local government officials; in fact, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and other local government representatives have explicitly requested that federal officers vacate the city.

[Hot Tabasco]

It tells you in the article who they are . Go back and read it again.

You go back and read it dude and see where the article actually originated.............Then get back with me..................

I'll save you the time, here's a link to the original article that just so happens to have been published by Oregon Public Broadcasting.........

Notice there was no attempt to verify any of the information being provided by Mr. Pettiboner?

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/#.XxD9y_CwH4w.twitter

This thread isn't worth the bullshit, so you can defend the Atifa fraudster all you want..........

[SmokingJoe]

I don't need to do any of that.
The original article was posted right here on FR some hours ago. I posted on that thread.
It tells you exactly who these federal agents are.
Bottom line: Its easy enough to act tough when you know that the mayor and the city council in Portland have ordered the police not to do any harm to Antifa. In fact the mayor is in cahoots with Antifa.
The federal agents sent by Trump have the exact opposite orders. To take down Antifa by an means possible. The Homeland Security Secretary himself was in Portland yesterday. And that was not a social visit.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I wish they were being taken to Gitmo.

[RoosterRedux]

Same here.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Chip ‘em.

With a wood chipper.

[TangoLimaSierra]

“Use your words!”

An idiot that needs to be home, taking care of her 3 year old.

[CJ Wolf]

guess we saw “what happened.” Restore order.

[keats5]

So many lies.

They switched to unmarked cars because anything labeled “police” gets attacked. They removed personal IDs to prevent doxing.

But the uniforms all have clear identifying labels on the chest and armbands. Some say “POLICE.” Some say “Police, Department of Homeland Security.”

And having said that, undercover police have been making arrests forever. So there’s no rule they must have marked cars or even uniforms.

[af_vet_rr]

Are we cool if this exact same thing happens under a President Biden or a President Kamala Harrison?

Are we absolutely cool with the feds rolling in with unmarked vehicles, with generic "police" labels on their fatigues, decked out in camouflage like they were in Afghanistan, and pulling people off the street into those unmarked vehicles, without bothering to tell them why they are under arrested or being detained?

Because I have more than a few friends and acquaintances who, for years, have talked about this exact scenario happening. And here we are, and they are mum about it.

Not that any of them would resist federal agents, but they sure as hell talked up a good game about how they would resist this kind of stuff under Obama.

Hell, when we had the Jade Helm stuff going on, plenty of of us were looking at maps and what the commanders were saying about the exercises, and figuring out that we were about to send Green Berets into Syria, which we did.

But those idiots who, nowadays, believe in that qanon nonsense and Alex Jones, were like "this is the first wave, and they are prepping us, and they are going to detain us and put us in underground facilities or empty Walmarts or whatever."

And here we are, we have seen plenty of feds engaging in behavior that many said they would resist. But it's cool, because the guy in the White House says he's a Republican, so everything is fine. The qanon idiots are probably waiting on their "DRINK MORE OVALTINE" secret coded messages as well, to explain things to them.

[af_vet_rr]

You know how you handle it? You let Portland handle it. When the feds do this kind of stuff, they turn the discussion/argument from the actions of the antifa idiots to feds engaging in banana republic behavior, and it gives the antifa idiots something to focus on and rally around.

You can keep the federal facilities intact, you can hang tight around there with clearly marked security, not generic "police" badges, and you stick close to those facilities.

But let antifa run wild everywhere else, and then you will see businesses and citizens who tire of it quickly, and antifa will be their target, and they will make it clear to the people in charge that either they get rid of antifa, or they face losing every election coming up.

Even if the mayor wants to sympathize with the antifa creeps, at the end of the day, they are just another politician who wants to hold onto power, and the businesses and citizens can take that power away in the next election.

All this crap the feds are doing is (ironically) getting people used to a unmarked federal presence, and it's presenting a rallying point for the anarchists or whatever the hell they are.

[lodi90]

Are we cool if this exact same thing happens under a President Biden or a President Kamala Harrison?

---

Why are you willfully blind to 50 nights in a row of domestic terrorism in Portland? If we can’t use force to put down such acts of political terrorism now we never will be. Game. Set. Match. Adios America. Hello revolutionary communism.

[The Toll]

For real. What are they going to do, gun us down like LaVoy Fennicun.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

All this crap the feds are doing is (ironically) getting people used to a unmarked federal presence, and it's presenting a rallying point for the anarchists or whatever the hell they are.

When you are parroting the talking points of Nancy Pelousi and the Portland 'Rat Mayor, you need to reassess your thinking...

[keats5]

Jade Helm involved the military. This is DHS and ICE. The feds have always had the authority to step in to deal with federal crimes or threats to federal personnel or property. Antifa was burning down a federal courthouse and endangering federal personnel within. Their arm patches indicated their specific affiliation. And I never like it when my side loses an election, but when they do I have to accept that the feds will still enforce federal law.

[af_vet_rr]

The photos I saw just had "POLICE" on generic tabs, and nothing identifying them with specific units. I saw way too many photos of feds dressing and acting like they were in the military.

I'm just saying - if this were Obama or a Biden or Harrison or whatever, a lot of people here cheering the feds on in 2020 would be losing their minds.

[af_vet_rr]

Why are you willfully blind to 50 nights in a row of domestic terrorism in Portland? If we can’t use force to put down such acts of political terrorism now we never will be. Game. Set. Match. Adios America. Hello revolutionary communism.

Why are you willfully blind to the fact that if the city of Portland and the state of Oregon wanted to end this, they could. Because the feds want to cosplay the Stasi (look it up if you're too young to know that means), the Portland mayor and Oregon governor don't have to get their hands dirty.

If the feds back off, you'll see National Guard in there clearing them out on the orders of the governor.

[greenishness]

If they are dressed in camouflage then they surely are not “secret police” because they are the only ones wearing camouflage.

[lodi90]

Why are you willfully blind to the fact that if the city of Portland and the state of Oregon wanted to end this, they could. Because the feds want to cosplay the Stasi (look it up if you’re too young to know that means), the Portland mayor and Oregon governor don’t have to get their hands dirty.

If the feds back off, you’ll see National Guard in there clearing them out on the orders of the governor.

---

ICE agents are “stasi”? Pelosi called them “stormtroopers”. Are you a Democrat? You sure sound like one.

Dems want daily violence and chaos through the election to create Trump fatigue among voters. Doing nothing only encourages the lawlessness that Dems want.

[af_vet_rr]

When you are parroting the talking points of Nancy Pelousi and the Portland 'Rat Mayor, you need to reassess your thinking...

You kids are adorable when you dodge the issue. It is absolutely true that when the feds act like this, it presents a rallying point for the other side.

I don't care how much that triggers you, I don't care if some lefties agree with that statement, because hey, a broken clock is right every now and then.

The feds don't need to be driving around in unmarked vehicles and grabbing people. Put up some bigger barriers around the fed buildings (better yet, tell the Portland mayor you'll move the fed jobs to another town that can get it's crap together), stick close to those buildings, and let the idiots run wild in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Eventually, the people of Portland/Oregon will have had enough, and either the mayor or governor step in and clamps down, or they will be out of jobs when their next reelection is up.

[greenishness]

I'm just saying - if this were Obama or a Biden or Harrison or whatever, a lot of people here cheering the feds on in 2020 would be losing their minds.

Not agreed.

I'm no fan of Obama but if you had people "protesting" against the police, getting in their face, cursing them, throwing fireworks at them and Obama (during his presidency) sent a "secret police force" in to gain some type of order.

I would be for that.