Posted on 07/24/2020 3:07:34 AM PDT by truthkeeper
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General has opened an investigation into allegations that DOJ personnel have improperly used force this month in Portland, Ore., as well as an inquiry into their role in responding to mass protests in Washington, D.C., since late May.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the inquiry the day after federal agents tear-gassed Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler during a protest Wednesday night outside a federal courthouse.
At a broader level, the inspector general will review the way DOJ personnel have been used to respond to protests and civil unrest in both Portland and Washington over the past two months. The review will include agents' use of force as well as tear gas and "less-lethal munitions" — a category that often includes items such as bean bag rounds and rubber bullets.
Portland and Washington are among several large cities where federal agents' presence and aggressive tactics have stoked controversy. The mayors of at least five cities, including Portland and Washington, sent a letter to President Trump this week asking him to withdraw the agents, saying they were inflaming tensions.
The agents' deployment by the Trump administration has prompted criticism from local and state leaders, who say the move is motivated more by political goals than by a desire to preserve law and order. So far, all of the cities where agents have been deployed are led by Democrats.
The separate inquiries are in response to requests from Congress, members of the public, and a referral by U.S. Attorney Billy Williams, who heads the District of Oregon office...
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
You have to be kidding me
They are prepared.
> The agents’ deployment by the Trump administration has prompted criticism from local and state leaders, who say the move is motivated more by political goals than by a desire to preserve law and order. So far, all of the cities where agents have been deployed are led by Democrats.
Only a liar, an ignoramus, or both, could write that after seeing the riotous mobs of AntiFa types trying to vandalize/torch the Federal building in Portland every night for the last 8 weeks or so. It’s out there on video, and of course the mainstream media has ignored it.
Well, we already know that Horowitz moves at lightning speed. The question is whether the report will be issued before Horowitz accepts the job offer to join a consulting firm on K Street. /sarc
Let me guess. The report is already written. It’s Trump’s fault.
After they’re investigated they should receive medals.
In Effin believable. This entire country needs a giant reset button to water the tree and get back to something that values law and order.
Nope,Bill is *not* an ignoramus.He is a white guy who grew up in upper middle class suburbia (perhaps Westchester County or Marin County),graduated from the Columbia School of Jouralism and has been taught...since he was four...that this is an entirely evil,and completely irredeemable,country.That's why he's a rising star...a perfect fit...at National Publicly Funded Radio.
Glad I could set you straight on that.
Bill seemed reasonable a couple of weeks ago. what caused him to change?
8 Jul: CBS: AP: 7 Portland protesters face federal charges for defacing courthouse, assaulting officers
The U.S. Attorney in Oregon announced federal charges Tuesday against seven protesters who are accused in court papers of defacing a federal courthouse and assaulting federal officers during protests in Portland, Oregon against racial injustice and police brutality.
The protesters are charged with offenses ranging from disorderly conduct to destruction of federal property and assaulting a federal officer and were released pending trial after a brief court hearing Monday.
The protester facing the most charges, 19-year-old Rowan Olsen, has pleaded not guilty...
Protesters in Portland have demonstrated for 40 consecutive nights following the death of George Floyd and are increasingly focusing their actions on federal properties in the city’s downtown core, including the Hatfield Federal Courthouse...
Court papers filed Monday allege Olsen used his body to hold the doors to the courthouse shut to prevent federal officers from coming out to confront demonstrators and caused the glass to shatter. Other protesters then threw fireworks inside the courthouse and at federal officers, starting a small fire in the entryway, according to court papers...
Four of the seven people arrested are from the Portland metropolitan area. One is from Oceanside, California, one from Seattle and one from Eugene, Oregon...
***U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said in a statement that U.S. Marshals Service deputies and officers from the Federal Protective Service, Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have all been on duty protecting the courthouse.
In the affidavit, Federal Protective Service special agent David Miller said his agency, the U.S. Marshal Service and other federal agencies he did not identify have been working in Portland to protect the federal courthouse and other federal properties.
Protesters began targeting federal facilities in Portland on May 28, Miller said, and the field office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “was targeted by a Molotov Cocktail.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-protesters-face-federal-charges-for-defacing-hatfield-courthouse-assaulting-officers/
expect instant results from Horowitz. maybe even indictments! lol.
for some reason, the photo isn’t included, but it’s at the second link:
7 Jul: Dept of Justice: Seven Arrested, Facing Federal Charges After Weekend Riots at Hatfield Federal Courthouse (Photo)
PORTLAND, Ore.—U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that seven people have been arrested and face federal charges for their roles in weekend riots at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland.
According to court documents, since May 26, 2020, protests in downtown Portland have regularly been followed by nightly criminal activity including assaults on law enforcement officers, destruction of property, looting, arson, and vandalism.
Rowan Olsen, 19, of Portland, is charged with disorderly conduct, creating a hazard on federal property, and failing to obey a lawful order; Shant Singh Ahuja, 28, of Oceanside, California, is charged with destruction of federal property; and Andrew Steven Faulkner, 24, of Beaverton, Oregon; Gretchen Margaret Blank, 29, of Seattle, Washington; Christopher Fellini, 31, of Portland; Cody Porter, 28, of Portland; and Taimane Jame Teo, 24, of Eugene, Oregon, are charged with assaulting federal officers.
The Hatfield Federal Courthouse has been a repeated target of vandalism, sustaining extensive damage. U.S. Marshals Service deputies and officers from the Federal Protective Service, Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection working to protect the courthouse have been subjected to threats; aerial fireworks including mortars; high intensity lasers targeting officers’ eyes; thrown rocks, bottles, and balloons filled with paint from demonstrators while performing their duties.
On July 2-3, 2020, Olsen is accused of using his body to push on and hold a glass door at the Hatfield Courthouse closed, preventing officers from exiting the building and causing the door to shatter. With the door broken, a mortar firework entered the courthouse, detonating near the officers. The officers used shields and their bodies to block the open doorway for approximately six hours until demonstrators dispersed.
On July 4, 2020, Ahuja is accused of willfully destroying a closed-circuit video camera mounted on the exterior of the Hatfield Courthouse.
On July 5, 2020, Blank is accused of assaulting a federal officer with a shield while the officer was attempting to arrest another protestor.
On July 5-6, 2020, Faulkner, Fellini, Porter, and Teo are accused of assaulting federal officers with high intensity lasers. At the time of his arrest, Faulkner also possessed a sheathed machete.
All seven defendants made their first appearances in federal court on July 6, 2020 and were released pending trial...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/seven-arrested-facing-federal-charges-after-weekend-riots-hatfield-federal-courthouse
PHOTO OF THE SEVEN IN PHOTO GALLERY - USE ARROWS TO NAVIGATE IF IT ISN’T SHOWING
https://www.koin.com/news/protests/7-charged-with-federal-crimes-after-portland-riots/
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Trust them to act in their nature. Who are the scorpions?
when will they investigate the participation of Sunrise “Green New Deal” Movement in these “protests”?
Sunrise Movement, Portland Oregon Chapter:
19 June: Sunrise Movement PDX: Sunrise PDX Endorses PAALF & Unite Oregon’s Demands
Our City Must Defund the Police, Reinvest into Black Futures, and Protect Communities from Violence
The same law enforcement system exists here in Portland and has enabled officers to take the lives of Kendra James, Aaron Campel, Quanice Hayes, Andre Gladen, Patrick Kimmons, Chase Arnae Peeples, Terrell Kyreem Johnson, and Jason Washington.* Portland considers itself progressive, but it’s ingrained with deeply rooted racism that has been ignored by white people with power while Black, Indigenous, and Brown communities are oppressed and displaced. The same is true for the climate movement.
When the profits of carbon traders and polluters are prioritized over the health of frontline communities, we see white supremacy in action. When charging stations for expensive electric cars and solar incentives exclusive to homeowners are professed as the solutions to climate collapse, we see white supremacy in action. Just as all lives can’t matter until Black lives matter, we can’t have climate justice until we have racial justice.
We recognize that this statement is late in coming. Our hub’s capacity these last three weeks has been taken up trying our best to show up for the PDX BLM events. But showing up in the streets is not enough. Sunrise Movement PDX needs to do a better job reckoning with our city’s history and the ways in which we perpetuate a culture of white supremacy within our hub. Internally, we are reflecting on and working to address the ways in which we uphold traits of white supremacy culture. Externally, we are striving to continuously improve how we show up for and support Black organizers in Portland...
On Wednesday, the Portland City Council voted to cut $15 million from the Portland Police Bureau’s (PPB) budget, dissolving the Gun Violence Reduction Team (GVRT), the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, and PPB’s transit police program entirely. These reforms are the product of years of diligent advocacy by community leaders like Jo Ann Hardesty that have built the foundation for this moment...
This isn’t over. We need to follow and uplift Black organizers and keep showing up.
If you’re able to show up physically, check out the Portland Black Lives Matter event calendar for information about many events all around the city! We also recommend following Don’t Shoot PDX (@DontShootPdx), Rose City Justice (@RoseCityJustice), Snack Bloc (@SnackBloc), and YEJA (@yejapdx)...
https://www.sunrisepdx.org/news/sunrise-pdx-endorses-paalf-and-unite-oregons-demands
scroll down for Portland tweets:
Twitter: Sunrise PDX, Portland, Oregon
https://twitter.com/sunrisepdx?lang=en
with links:
23 June: JUUstice Washington Network: Sunrise Movement Resources for Supporting Black Lives Matter Protests
Sunrise Movement, in recognition of the intersection between Black Lives Matter and Climate Change issues, has published a detailed 9-page guide for Taking Action for Black Lives. Included are ideas for how to support Black Lives Matter protests, talking points and how to be safe at protests. Access the guide here.
In addition, attend trainings at CHOP/Cal Anderson Park, Seattle
Non Violent Civil Disobedience Training w. Rev. Sekou (6/24)
Non Violent Civil Disobedience Training w. Rev. Sekou (6/25)
https://juustwa.org/sunrise-movement-resource-for-supporting-black-lives-matter-protests/
watch the video:
Youtube: 5m 11s: Youtube: Welcome to Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an5GbckznRQ
this website seems to be a “gloBULL warming” website. however, this is a lengthy piece with scores of mentions of Sunrise Movement and some interesting connections. well worth skimming, if not reading:
20 May 2020: Wrong Kind of Green: Clinton to McKibben to Steyer to Podesta: Comments on Planet of the Humans
by Michael Swifte, Wrong Kind of Green Collective
I watched Planet of the Humans after watching the Earth Day livestream discussion with Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner. I hope that Michael Moore’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders and his plea that we put environmentalism into the hands of young people like the Sunrise Movement which was incubated by the Sierra Club is not the position of all three film makers...
In 2007 a plan was launched by 6 foundations. This plan #DesigntoWin produced the ClimateWorks Foundation, headed by John Podesta, which has spearheaded the incubation and funding of re-granting NGOs globally. ClimateWorks is perhaps the world’s largest recipient of climate philanthropy having received more than 1.3 billion USD since it’s inception in 2008.
John Podesta has a long relationship with the Clintons, both as politicians and philanthropists...
Podesta is always engaged with philanthropists. The Sandler Foundation helped establish the Center for American Progress which Podesta heads up. It helped fund the Australian climate justice regranting NGO the Sunrise Project and the US Beyond Coal campaign. Tom Steyer, a former Wall St banker, hedge fund manager and friend of Nancy Pelosi befriended Podesta who welcomed him into his Center for American Progress. Podesta encouraged Steyer to start his NextGen Climate Action Committee...ETC
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/tag/sunrise-movement/
Hey mayor, how can you inflame a riot when your city is in flames?
So far, all of the cities where lawlessness is occurring are led by Demoncrats! Just a reminder to the writer!
There have been 490 arrests I think? (another half dozen tonite). Peaceful people don’t get arrested, not with 15 chances to disburse and even then they’re most likely to be pushed out.
Let this guy talk to the IG and Congress. I believe his name is Philip Anderson. Here he is in Portland trying to get the anarchists who broke the gate to leave the inside enclosure and stop taunting the officers, and breaking into the enclosure and starting fires:
https://twitter.com/pack_of_camels/status/1286228942995816448
and back at the hotel, he sums up the threats against him from anarchists who hide behind BLM chants to play Binky Brigade:
https://twitter.com/pack_of_camels/status/1286605790305017856
Elevate this voice. Along with Bevelyn Beatty. Let the members of Congress hear them above the whining of the troublemakers.
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