Posted on 07/22/2020 2:52:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND -- The Trump administration is facing growing pushback - in the courts and on the streets - to sending federal agents to Portland, Oregon, where protests have spiraled into violence, and vowing to do the same in other Democratic-led cities.
Far from tamping down the unrest that followed George Floyds death at the hands of Minneapolis police, the presence of federal agents on the streets of progressive Portland - and particularly allegations they have whisked people away in unmarked cars without probable cause - has energized two months of nightly protests that had begun to devolve into smaller, chaotic crowds.
It is time for the Trump troops to go home and focus their attention on other activities, Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said on MSNBC.
Federal authorities, however, said state and local officials had been unwilling to work with them to stop the vandalism and violence against federal officers and the U.S. courthouse in Portland.
Crowds had recently numbered fewer than 100 people but swelled to more than 1,000 over the weekend, again attracting a broader base in a city thats increasingly unified and outraged.
Among the protesters was Mardy Widman, who watched demonstrations against racial injustice unfold in her hometown for weeks but stayed away because, at 79, she feared getting the coronavirus.
When Trump sent in federal officers, that changed: A masked Widman took to the street Monday with other Portland residents.
Its like a dictatorship, Widman, a grandmother of five, said, holding a sign that read: Grammy says: Please feds, leave Portland.
I mean, that he can pick on our city mostly because of the way we vote and make an example of it for his base is very frightening, she said.
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The media would have us believe the people support this, and will vote for more of it. Really?
Good is evil and evil is good.
They just need to change some words around to engineer a narrative.
They aren't liberals. They are Marxist revolutionaries waging war against the Constitution and the People.
Antifa Press
He won't bother running them in Oregon...or Kalifornia...or Massachusetts however.And for obvious reasons.
Where are Federal agents supposed to operate? If not in the 50 states?
Correct....
I’ve come to believe we are actually in a hot Civil War, not just a cultural war, look at what’s going on in numerous major cities, it’s a war....how it can be described as anything other than a insurgency is misleading a best.....
The AP lies
These are the words,just last month,of the filthy bull dyke Attorney General of Massachusetts regarding police cars and Molotov Cocktails.She's a disciple of...yes,you guessed it...George Soros.
Seems like a bizarre civil war to me. Misfits and mutants burning Seattle and Portland to the ground is like Robert E. Lee sacking Richmond, Virginia.
The violence is a means to an end.....look at what is happening....police forces in those cities are getting cutback, gutted or some cases dissolved....
If Communists take effective control over a large percentage of the population what would stop them from things we might now consider impossible....
Replace police forces with social justice warriors who enforce law against anyone who disagrees....look at the couple in St.Louis
Effectively revoke the 2nd Amendment....
Outlaw any sort of charter schools or private school.
You can go on and on....
If Democrats get control of Washington, there won’t be anyone who can stop them...
Democrat and Media Opposition grows to US agents in cities
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exactly, and maybe people on Twitter, which is of course the most valued opinions in today’s WOKE culture.
The media are frauds.
Let those grannies beg to be saved, let them burn.
who cares about twitter. learn this
Time to call a spade a spade. This is domestic terrorism and antifa are terrorists. Arrest them all.
“.. without probable cause...” ??? Really? People get arrested by plainclothes or under cover cops all the time. Unmarked cars are used, all the time. People are arrested based on probable cause, all the time. What is happening in Portland is merely President Trump making the city safe again. It is going to take time. It is going to make some people angry. Now the real question is why a return to law and order wouldn’t be welcomed by these people. What is their agenda?
Seems like a bizarre civil war to me. Misfits and mutants burning Seattle and Portland to the ground is like Robert E. Lee sacking Richmond, Virginia.
I wonder what kind of intel is being gathered here. I’m guessing that there has been some tracking of Antifa groups going on for some time. I also imagine that there is (or should be) heavy monitoring of communications going on right now. These folks have to sleep some time (probably during the day). After coming out and officially labeling Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, there needs to be a coordinated black ops mission to round up the nasties and make them gone - no announcement, no noise, no due process, nothing. Put them all in Gitmo. Let their rank and file wonder what happened during the next riot. Continue the process slowly, methodically, secretly until the rioting stops.
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