Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles to Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
I don’t understand why more people are not raising concerns over this. There are so many civil rights violations here that it’s ridiculous, and it’s a clear violation of Posse Comitatus. These goons need to be jailed and prosecuted for civil rights violations PRONTO. This is not far removed from the roving death squads that used to be common in Central and South American Dictatorships, and who is to say that our really screwed up el Presidente won’t take it there?
After all Donald Trump is concerned with only two things: what money he can direct to corrupt cronies, and what theater and grandstanding he can do to better his re-election chances. Make no mistake here: Donald Trump desperately wants to change the current news narrative, and creating unneeded confrontation here would allow him to do that. He would play it as being tough on those Anti Fa terrorists, and Fox news and the right wing noise machine would love to amplify that false narrative.
After 7 p.m. Thursday, a DHS spokesperson responded, on background, that they could confirm Wolf was in Portland during the day. The spokesperson didn’t acknowledge the remaining questions.
“It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay,” said attorney Juan Chavez, director of the civil rights project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center.
Chavez has worked on litigation surrounding the weeks of protests and helped lead efforts to curb local police from using tear gas and munitions on protesters. He called the arrest by federal officers “terrifying.”
“You have laws regarding probable cause that can lead to arrests,” he said. “It sounds more like abduction. It sounds like they’re kidnapping people off the streets.”
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