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‘Secret Police in Our Streets’: Camouflaged Federal Officers in Unmarked Vans Arrest Protesters in Portland
lawandcrime.com ^
| Jerry Lambe
Posted on 07/17/2020 11:41:45 AM PDT by 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. Thats 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 Patrols 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.
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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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 3; antifa; arrest; oregon; police; portland
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To: GnuThere
Who says “use your words? Sounds fake.
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posted on
07/17/2020 1:37:07 PM PDT
by
certrtwngnut
(4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
To: Celtic Conservative
Hey you-see your name at the end kinda makes that cc redundant
62
posted on
07/17/2020 1:37:48 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom Hi Dad)
To: DesertRhino
I wonder where they are being taken? Oh wait.. I forgot that I dont care. I care. I care that it's not here!
63
posted on
07/17/2020 1:38:01 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
To: al baby
I would tend to agree.
If things continue the way they are going right now, it may well come to that.
To: RoosterRedux
in fact, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and other local government representatives have explicitly requested that federal officers vacate the city. Yeah..that will go down a treat.
Like some deranged far left mayor can tell the feds what to do.
This mayor may want to read the constitution.
The feds can go wherever they want.
To: al baby
It’s My signature. Helps me find my posts when scanning older threads.
CC
66
posted on
07/17/2020 1:46:04 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: DoodleDawg
Got to put fear into the leftist mob.
67
posted on
07/17/2020 1:47:35 PM PDT
by
toddausauras
(How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
To: al baby
68
posted on
07/17/2020 1:48:05 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Veggie Todd
If they are without visible identification, how do we know theyre Federales? Because Federales "don' need no steenking bodges!"
69
posted on
07/17/2020 1:48:13 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
To: al baby; Vendome; SmokingJoe
Vendome as always been a od dude I don't think he's ever OD'd.
Good stand up kinda guy in person, too.
70
posted on
07/17/2020 1:53:56 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
To: certrtwngnut
Who says use your words? Sounds fake. My oh-so-liberal ex wife, when the kids were upset and gibbering.
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posted on
07/17/2020 1:56:13 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
To: null and void; al baby; SmokingJoe
These guy are good.
We are all a bit tense these days but, the video is staged.
I can see that on my cell phone
If I get a chance to watch it on 80” screen I’ll bet I see more inconsistencies and that is before I do any enhancements to the video and see more fakery
This all part of the next round of violence that begins again in two - three weeks.
What is OD anyway?
72
posted on
07/17/2020 1:58:13 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: RoosterRedux
This has public relations nightmare written all over it. Things just keeps getting better and better.
73
posted on
07/17/2020 1:59:43 PM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(In America 2.0, blacks are sacred and can do no wrong.)
To: RoosterRedux
That twitter video is so damn fake it made me spill my bear.
When was the last time you ever watched an Antifa video being recorded where two camo clad actors march past the guy recording it right up to the Antifa soy boy standing up against a wall with his hands up?
This video is so fake....................
To: Vendome
but, the video is staged.
I can see that on my cell phone Can you see Russia collusion from your cell phone too? Why don't you just go back to Antifaland?
Chuckle.
To: Vendome
“od” is “OK” brought to you by the same guy who first stuned a beeber...
76
posted on
07/17/2020 2:03:09 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
To: null and void
77
posted on
07/17/2020 2:12:07 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Hot Tabasco
When was the last time you ever watched an Antifa video being recorded where two camo clad actors march past the guy recording it right up to the Antifa soy boy standing up against a wall with his hands up? Oh it happened in midtown Manhattan and all over the country hundreds of times during the riots in late May and June. Hundreds of left wing Antifa/BLM rioters and looters were arrested. And it was all captured on cell phone videos. You may want to have a look at YouTube. It's literally impossible to arrest anyone without someone recording it on cellphone video.
To: null and void
79
posted on
07/17/2020 2:13:27 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: RoosterRedux
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.
There is indeed a precedent for state and local government officials not having that authority, it should be pointed out by any casual student of history.
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