Trump Sent Cops to Portland and They're 'Kidnapping People off the Streets'

[RKP5637]

As the dictatorship marches forward! If Trump wins 2020, this will be daily for anyone who opposes him - disappearing people.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w4w8/trump-sent-the-feds-to-portland-and-theyre-kidnapping-people-off-the-streets

Camouflaged federal officers have been patrolling the streets, pulling protesters into unmarked cars and arresting them.

Federal law enforcement officials deployed by President Donald Trump to Portland, Oregon are, by all accounts, operating as if the city is a police state, according to multiple reports and videos.

In recent weeks, camouflaged federal officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), the Border Patrol’s rough equivalent of a SWAT team, have been patrolling the city, which has seen ongoing protests since the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in late May.

But in recent days, these federal law enforcement officers have escalated their tactics, using unmarked cars to grab protesters and arrest them, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported late Thursday night. Two protesters said they were walking home after a relatively tame night of protests on July 15 when a minivan suddenly pulled up in front of them.

“I see guys in camo,” one of the protesters, Conner O’Shea, told OPB. “Four or five of them pop out, open the door and it was just like, ‘Oh shit. I don’t know who you are or what you want with us.’”

Federal police have charged at least 13 protesters with crimes, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting, while they’ve arrested others and released them, such as O’Shea’s companion that night, Mark Pettibone.

“I am basically tossed into the van,” Pettibone said. “And I had my beanie pulled over my face so I couldn’t see and they held my hands over my head.” The U.S. Marshals Service denied that they had arrested or even detained Pettibone, according to OPB.

A video posted earlier this week showed unidentified federal officers in camouflage on the street arresting a protester who had their hands up.

Lawyer Juan Chavez, who serves as director of the civil rights project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center in Portland, compared the feds’ tactics to “abduction” and “kidnapping people off the streets.”

[FM123]

1. I suspect that it is even worse than we know.

I don't know how this is not front page news, I am able to find articles just here and there to keep up with this...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/17/1961400/--A-peaceful-protester-in-Portland-was-shot-in-the-head-by-Donald-Trump-s-secret-police-Now-what?utm_campaign=trending

[RKP5637]

3. Absolutely, I would not be surprised if people are disappearing in the dead of night and I am

not exaggerating. He is using the dictatorial playbook. Probably also receiving advice from Putin. Trump will not leave office quietly in 2020 ... and the election will likely be rigged in his favor.

[orwell]

2. But...but...

...DasTrumpen just said that flying the Confederate flag was just "free speech."

I guess that "free speech" thingy is situational.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia...

[luvallpeeps]

4. Holy shit!!

Has the msm had anything on this?

[RKP5637]

5. There's been some coverage, but nothing like there should be. n/t

[blueinredohio]

6. There's safety in numbers. Maybe make sure there's enough people together

so that someone gets it recorded then everyone who gets "kidnapped" files a class action suit against the government and Portland police for not protecting them. Sound plausible?

[RKP5637]

7. Yes! n/t