Trump’s Secret Police goes rogue in Portland

[donbusch]

Federal law enforcement officers w/ no agency badges/identification have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off ...

... Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC, have been sent to Portland to protect federal property during the recent protests against racism and police brutality.
But interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity.

... Oregon Gov. Kate Brown similarly called for federal law enforcement officers to leave Portland. She added, Wolf is on a “mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes.”
“This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety,” Brown said in a statement. “The President is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government.”
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Trump’s use of Federal Law Enforcement officers w/ no agency badges/identification first seen in Washington D.C continues in Portland. Trump hides behind states rights when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic but has no problems deploying his Federal Secret Police in a state whose governor has clearly demanded that they leave.

Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland

In a dangerous authoritarian move, federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens.

www.thenation.com

Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14.

www.opb.org

 

[Flabert]

Federal law enforcement officers w/ no agency badges/identification have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off ...

... Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC, have been sent to Portland to protect federal property during the recent protests against racism and police brutality.
But interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity.

... Oregon Gov. Kate Brown similarly called for federal law enforcement officers to leave Portland. She added, Wolf is on a “mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes.”
“This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety,” Brown said in a statement. “The President is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government.”
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Trump’s use of Federal Law Enforcement officers w/ no agency badges/identification first seen in Washington D.C continues in Portland. Trump hides behind states rights when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic but has no problems deploying his Federal Secret Police in a state whose governor has clearly demanded that they leave.

Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland

In a dangerous authoritarian move, federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens.

www.thenation.com

Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14.

www.opb.org

same thing as in 1999 WTO protests... deep state is deep and unaffected by politics

1999 Seattle WTO protests - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[donbusch]

Wow, Trump’s Secret Police has gone rogue in Portland.

Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf is now basically telling Oregon’s Governor & Portland’s Mayor to fuck off while Trump’s thugs continue to usurp police powers from the state.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284081029683257344

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284308327321743360

 

[Fradi]

He is being coached by Putin.
That guy knows a thing or two about secret policing the KGB were/are top notch.
He was a former KGB agent and later leader of the FSB which replaced the KGB.

 

[donbusch]

A 53 yr old Navy veteran walks up to Trump’s secret police/thugs to ask them how they felt about violating their oaths of office. The thugs shove the vet then savagely beat him repeatedly with batons followed by mace. The Navy vet stands calmly then walks it off while giving them the finger. A Hero emerges!

 

[DTOM]

Federal law enforcement officers w/ no agency badges/identification have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off ...

... Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC, have been sent to Portland to protect federal property during the recent protests against racism and police brutality.
But interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity.

... Oregon Gov. Kate Brown similarly called for federal law enforcement officers to leave Portland. She added, Wolf is on a “mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes.”
“This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety,” Brown said in a statement. “The President is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government.”
____________________________________

Trump’s use of Federal Law Enforcement officers w/ no agency badges/identification first seen in Washington D.C continues in Portland. Trump hides behind states rights when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic but has no problems deploying his Federal Secret Police in a state whose governor has clearly demanded that they leave.

Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland

In a dangerous authoritarian move, federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens.

www.thenation.com

Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14.

www.opb.org

Fallacies:

- ‘’protesters’’ - FALLACY.
The arrests do not target protesters but rather violent anarchists who have organized events in Portland in recent days with intent to damage federal property.

- ‘’Trump’s secret police’’ - FALLACY.
Clearly stated as a CBP special task force working under the Protecting American Communities Task Force. Moreover, DHS agents are not required to wear identifiers when conducting arrests - FACT. These unmarked type of arrests happened frequently under previous administrations and are left to the discretion of supervisors as there could be tactical advantages to proceed accordingly.

- ‘’who aren’t near federal property’’ - LOGICAL FALLACY.
Hasty generalization suggesting that arrests must occur where crimes occurred otherwise there is no crime.

- ‘’mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes’’ - FALLACY
Unproven and unlikely given previous Antifa activity and intelligence the CBP had in hands before the arrests took place.

- ‘’blatant abuse of power by the federal government’’ - FALLACY
Protecting federal property is reflected in section 1361 of title 18, United States Code.

 

[DTOM]

 

[bignasty]

I love watching the Montreal police kick the shit out of these anarchists.

We need some of your finest to come down to our liberal cesspools like Portland and Seattle where the pussy leaders are vying for the most WOKE points - while their cities are being destroyed.

 

[donbusch]

Dozens of women linked arms to form a "wall of moms" around Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland as protesters clashed with fed. law enforcement.

Organizer Bev Barnum says they're "willing to be a human shield to make sure that people aren't gassed."

Guess Trump must be feeling so insecure that he has to deploy his Secret Police against Moms.

'Wall of Moms' shields protesters from federal agents in Portland

A group of women, many of whom were first time protesters, formed a "wall of moms" to shield other demonstrators from federal agents after nights of unrest and harsh crackdown from law enforcement in Portland. NBC's Erin McLaughlin reports from the ground and speaks with one of the women who...

t.co

 

[bignasty]

Now that Trump is sending in the Feds to quell the rioting by antifa we find out the real truth about their members. They are nothing more than mommy's boys who were emboldened by the pussy mayor's of Portland and Seattle who have castrated their police departments. As long as they could hurl rocks and bottles of ice at the heads of local police with impunity - and turn around and run - they were fine. The Feds don't play that game. If you assault one of these Feds with a potentially deadly weapon your ass will go down. Unfortunately their mommies fed them way to much soy when they were kids and now their mommies have to try and protect them from the big bad wolf.

 

[Fradi]

I don’t know some of these “Moms “ must have gone to burn the building and loot and pillage classes in between driving their loved ones to soccer or to church.
There is no easy solution to this.

 

[donbusch]

Governors & mayors literally begged the Federal Government to take charge of the coronavirus response but Trump was too concerned about the impact to his election campaign & went into denial, anti-science mode; cowardly asserting that states rights & federalism meant that the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t the responsibility of the US president.

Now, as if to prove that he is the worst US president ever, Trump is violating those very same states rights & federalism that he pretended to champion when it suited his purpose. He is sending his secret police into cities UNINVITED, in violation of the constitution.The governors & mayors have publicly denounced Trump’s thugs in their cities, asking them to get out.

Trump falsely claims that there are anarchists out there but his thugs are deliberately inflaming the situation and inciting violence, even knowingly tear-gassing Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1286266094332911618

Trump Is Sending Secret Police to American Cities. Here's What We Know.

"Operation Legend" is freaking out mayors and governors, who worry Trump’s “secret police” might run amok like they have in Portland.

www.vice.com

 

[IamNY]

The protesters/looters didn’t want their mayor to be there, he was booed and encouraged to leave. Only reason he stayed as long as he did was because he brought his 5 man armed security detail with him to protect him at the “peaceful“ protest:

Portland mayor is booed by crowd, teargassed by agents as he tries to join protest

Mayor Ted Wheeler was on the receiving end of profane chants from residents upset at his handling of the city's police, and tear gas from the federal officers outside the courthouse.

news.yahoo.com

 

[sene5hos]

I don't want to start a discussion on weapons.

In the USA you speak less with your mouth than through the mouth of your weapons

 

[donbusch]

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler at the very least, had the courage to attend the protest. Trump, Bill Barr or Chad Wolf wouldn’t dare to attend even with a full battalion of their secret police.

Despite being yelled at & taunted by the very same people that he sought to protect, Wheeler didn’t take it personally and continues to fight against the illegal occupation by Trump’s secret police.

Military veterans are now stepping up to form a human wall to protect the protesters. So far, we had the ‘Wall of Moms’ & ‘Wall of Dads‘. Trump’s thugs had no problems with beating & tear-gassing them so I guess military veterans should expect to be similarly brutalized. But all these brave folks are still standing strong against Trump’s secret police because this is America and country comes first!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1286884473934503936

 

[CaptRenault]

Here's my favorite video from Portlandia.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1287666414258511874

 

[donbusch]

Either Trump is confused about where his Secret Police is supposed to be or State Media/FoxNews is turning against him.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1288599151349923840

Anyway, this scary photo of Portland protesters must be causing Trump to wet his diapers.

 

[Anwar]

I don't see any anti-mask, small-government faux libertarian wingnut protesting police brutality in Portland. I guess their FrEeDoMzZ get violated only when government provides healthcare for all.

I'd love to see all those assault-rifle wielding MAGA crowd storming government buildings with impunity take a real stand against police brutality. Lets see how these gun freaks defend themselves against the government where it counts!

 

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[Marsouin]

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