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‘Very frightening’: Opposition grows to US agents in cities
The Associated Press ^ | July 22, 2020 | By Gillian Flaccus (D-AP)

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 Floyd’s 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 that’s 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.

“It’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; bigotedlynchmobs; journalism; media; riots; seditiousconspiracy
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To: srmanuel

The media would have us believe the people support this, and will vote for more of it. Really?


21 posted on 07/22/2020 3:56:50 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
The media can spin anything.

Good is evil and evil is good.

They just need to change some words around to engineer a narrative.

22 posted on 07/22/2020 3:57:33 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: srmanuel
The only push back is coming from the liberal mayors and other local officials

They aren't liberals. They are Marxist revolutionaries waging war against the Constitution and the People.

23 posted on 07/22/2020 4:04:23 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ncalburt

Antifa Press


24 posted on 07/22/2020 4:04:54 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Every day Rat Party Headquarters...and their Molotov Cocktail throwing soldiers...gives the President another ad to run in Florida,Pennsylvania,Ohio,Michigan,Indiana,Wisconsin and Iowa.

He won't bother running them in Oregon...or Kalifornia...or Massachusetts however.And for obvious reasons.

25 posted on 07/22/2020 4:06:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where are Federal agents supposed to operate? If not in the 50 states?


26 posted on 07/22/2020 4:07:58 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: joshua c
It reads like a Antifa Press release. Ass Press = Antifa Press These people are sick commies .
27 posted on 07/22/2020 4:11:25 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists .)
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To: AndyJackson

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.....


28 posted on 07/22/2020 4:11:33 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The AP lies


29 posted on 07/22/2020 4:13:16 AM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.

30 posted on 07/22/2020 4:13:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: srmanuel

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.


31 posted on 07/22/2020 4:16:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Alberta's Child

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...


32 posted on 07/22/2020 4:24:20 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: PIF

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.


33 posted on 07/22/2020 4:25:08 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let those grannies beg to be saved, let them burn.


34 posted on 07/22/2020 4:27:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Ymani Cricket

who cares about twitter. learn this


35 posted on 07/22/2020 4:29:36 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: SmokingJoe

Time to call a spade a spade. This is domestic terrorism and antifa are terrorists. Arrest them all.


36 posted on 07/22/2020 4:32:33 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“.. 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?


37 posted on 07/22/2020 4:41:07 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
More backwards propaganda from the AP.
38 posted on 07/22/2020 4:42:25 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Alberta's Child

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.


That’s a great analogy. But its the only way they can demonstrate their power. If they go outside those nurturing urban centers, they are in big trouble.


39 posted on 07/22/2020 4:45:12 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


40 posted on 07/22/2020 4:59:28 AM PDT by MarDav
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