Left Wingers Are Hysterical About Federal Agents Policing Protests in Portland

snowflake, lying, piece of feces mark pettibone is blowing smoke up the ass of the left. one must look at federal property and this is the crux of why there are federal troops in the area. these communists want to burn a store, loot and destroy black and which business, loot and destroy the baseball hall of fame to sell the morbilia is one thing. the line is crossed when the threat is made against a federal building or facility. communist rioters will be met with real tear gas, a variety of projectiles and depending upon the level of engagement, the non lethal projectiles will become very real bullets. 55 gr, 5.56 hollow point has a velocity of 3250 f/sec. with an energy of 1290 foot pounds. unlike the socialist, pedipile biden, impact sites are chest and head and not legs and feet.
-messing with federal building and property is going to get some of the communist rioters KILLED.

@Deplorable Me:

when violence escalates to a federal level, people will die. as far as paying for the minneapolis and minnesota debauchery, the gov and mayor can pound sand. why should I pay for their inept, political stunts, and the idiot mayor of minneapolis thinks she is vp material.

@kitt: Biden doesn’t know what he thinks until someone tells him.

@Greg:

comrade greggy-poo, a word of advice, never screw with the President of the US and never, ever screw with a federal agent during rioting periods as in portland. just think, you could be next. recall that they can hold all of these individuals on terrorism charges for 72 hrs w/o lawyer, phone call, just the bare essentials along with interrogation. under doj, interrogation techniques can become very rude.

@Greg: the plan in Portland is always to allow a Gestapo fascists, aka antifa and BLM, to run amok until Federal forced intervened… At which time left wing nut jobs like you fallaciously accuse them of being Gestapo fascists.

Lol. Didn’t work.

Unmarked vehicles, mini vans, so they could’nt be warned or blocked by groups of hood jumpers. Portland citizens have not had a nights peace in months.
https://twitter.com/Lori1981Ann1/status/1163228366440476672?s=20
Your media is not reporting the nightly riots
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1284453295722029056

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284453295722029056.html

July 18, 2020 – Federal Officers Deployed in Portland Didn’t Have Proper Training, D.H.S. Memo Said – Rather than tamping down persistent protests in Portland, Ore., a militarized presence from federal officers seems to have re-energized them.

Of course it has reenergized them. That’s what any thoughtful person would expect to happen, since the repeated use of excessive force by police is what set the protests off to begin with.

Trump needs protests to continue, and the more disorderly the better, so that he can portray himself as the only thing standing between America and anarchy. He’ll play that card at every opportunity, even as his own bombastic commentary, thoughtless actions, and abysmal insensitivity to the underlying issues promote divisions and raise the levels of tension. What else is he going to pitch in his efforts to win reelection? The economy? His better and cheaper health care plan? Deficit reductions? His success at bringing COVID-19 under control? Improved foreign relations, and the reining in of Iran and North Korea? Draining the swamp?

PORTLAND, Ore. — The federal agents facing a growing backlash for their militarized approach to weeks of unrest in Portland were not specifically trained in riot control or mass demonstrations, an internal Department of Homeland Security memo warned this week.

The message, dated Thursday, was prepared by the agency for Chad F. Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, as he arrived in Portland to view the scene in person, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The New York Times. It listed federal buildings in the city and issues officers faced in protecting them.

The memo, seemingly anticipating future encounters with protesters in other cities as the department follows President Trump’s guidance to crack down on unrest, warns: “Moving forward, if this type of response is going to be the norm, specialized training and standardized equipment should be deployed to responding agencies.”

The tactical agents deployed by Homeland Security include officials from a group known as BORTAC, the Border Patrol’s equivalent of a S.W.A.T. team, a highly trained group that normally is tasked with investigating drug smuggling organizations, as opposed to protesters in cities.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The issue is playing out as the aggressive federal campaign to suppress protests in Portland appears to have instead rejuvenated the city’s movement, as protesters gathered by the hundreds late Friday and into Saturday morning — the largest crowd in weeks.

Federal officers at times flooded street corridors with tear gas and shot projectiles from paintball guns, while demonstrators responded by shouting that the officers in fatigues were “terrorists” and chanting: “Whose streets? Our streets.”

A court ruling has largely prohibited the local police from using tear gas during the recent protests, which have played out for more than 50 consecutive nights.

With one Portland protester severely injured in front of the federal courthouse and others pulled by unidentified federal agents into unmarked vans, the extraordinary campaign to subdue protesters has led to widespread condemnation of the federal response in Portland and beyond.

While the protesters have repeatedly decried the city’s own police tactics, Mayor Ted Wheeler, who also serves as police commissioner, and other leaders have united in calls for federal agencies to stay away. Jo Ann Hardesty, a city commissioner, went to join protesters gathered outside the county Justice Center downtown, saying the city would “not allow armed military forces to attack our people.”

“Today we show the country and the world that the city of Portland, even as much as we fight among ourselves, will come together to stand up for our Constitutional rights,” Ms. Hardesty said Friday.

While officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have described the stepped-up involvement of federal officers as part of an effort to oppose lawlessness in the city, state and local leaders contended that the federal officers themselves may be violating the law.

Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the injury of one protester, who appeared to have been shot in the head with a less-lethal weapon outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland. Ellen Rosenblum, the state’s attorney general, has filed a lawsuit, accusing federal officers of unlawful tactics in how they went about detaining people by pulling them into unmarked vans.

The pushback against the militarized federal deployment involving officers in fatigues and tactical gear has also extended to the streets, where the presence of those federal agents has rejuvenated a movement that had shown signs of finally slowing down after weeks of protest against police violence and militarization.

Hundreds continued to demonstrate after midnight on Saturday, playing music, holding shields, tearing down temporary fences and throwing fireworks at the county’s Justice Center.

Along with street medics, protesters also have the support of a snack van that offers free Gatorade and instant noodles, and a makeshift kitchen called Riot Ribs that cooks bratwursts and Beyond Meat sausage. Someone on Saturday had set up a stand selling T-shirts promoting racial equity and hand washing.

The protests have long featured a mix of tactics, with some there displaying signs to sustain a Black Lives Matter movement that emerged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in May. Others have engaged in more unruly responses, such as graffiti or throwing objects at officers. Dozens have been arrested over the weeks, including some by federal officers, such as a man accused of hitting an officer with a hammer last week.

Protests around the federal courthouse — tagged with messages such as “Stop Using Violence On Us” and “History Has Its Eye On You” — have drawn the ire of federal leaders. Mr. Wolf got a tour there this week and shared images of himself in front of graffitied walls.

The arrival of a more aggressive federal presence came after President Trump, who at one point called on states to “dominate” protesters, directed federal agencies to increase their presence to protect federal properties, including statues and monuments that have at times been the target of protesters. Mr. Trump said last week that he had sent personnel to Portland because “the locals couldn’t handle it.”

Gov. Kate Brown said in an interview that she believed that the protests were starting to ease before the federal officers waded into the scene. She said she had asked Mr. Wolf to keep federal agents off the streets but that he rejected the suggestion.

Mr. Wheeler, the mayor, said he got the same response. But he said he believed the unified local response could change the federal tactics and keep federal officers off the streets.

“I can’t recall a single instance where we have had federal, state and local officials all in alignment, saying the presence of federal troops in our city is harmful to our residents,” Mr. Wheeler said.

Mr. Wheeler himself has been the target of protests, with crowds at times gathering outside of his condo. For weeks, he has called for an end to destructive demonstrations, saying he was concerned about “groups who continue to perpetrate violence and vandalism on our streets.”

Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, said in a tweet that he and Oregon’s other Democratic senator, Ron Wyden, next week would introduce an amendment to the defense bill to stop the Trump administration “from sending its paramilitary squads” onto America’s streets.

Ms. Rosenblum said her office was working with the Multnomah County district attorney, Rod Underhill, on a criminal investigation focused on the injury of a protester on July 12. In that case, video appeared to show a man being struck in the head by an impact munition near the federal courthouse, and his family said he subsequently needed surgery.

The attorney general’s office also filed a lawsuit late Friday accusing federal officers of using unlawful tactics. Protesters, along with videos posted on social media, have described scenes of federal officers seizing people and pulling them into unmarked vans.

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon has also filed in court to curtail the actions of federal officers, and the group said “many” more lawsuits that would be forthcoming.

Mary B. McCord, a professor at Georgetown Law and former national security official at the U.S. Department of Justice, said the federal tactics and use of unmarked vehicles were reminiscent of the much-criticized federal response to demonstrations in Washington in June.

Ms. McCord said federal officials were on dangerous ground with the tactics they were using, including seizing and detaining protesters off the streets and seemingly portraying all protesters as part of a dangerous movement.

“It sends the message that these people are terrorists and need to be treated like terrorists,” Ms. McCord said.

She added: “This is the kind of thing we see in authoritarian regimes.”

July 18, 2020 – Federal Officers Deployed in Portland Didn’t Have Proper Training, D.H.S. Memo Said – Rather than tamping down persistent protests in Portland, Ore., a militarized presence from federal officers seems to have re-energized them.

NY slimes, hardly a reputable source for accurate information….

The family that owns The New York Times were slaveholders

It’s far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.

Last Sunday, I recounted that Bertha Levy Ochs, the mother of Times patriarch Adolph S. Ochs, supported the South and slavery. She was caught smuggling medicine to Confederates in a baby carriage and her brother Oscar joined the rebel army.

I have since learned that, according to a family history, Oscar Levy fought alongside two Mississippi cousins, meaning at least three members of Bertha’s family fought for secession.

Adolph Ochs’ own “Southern sympathies” were reflected in the content of the Chattanooga Times, the first newspaper he owned, and then The New York Times. The latter published an editorial in 1900 saying the Democratic Party, which Ochs supported, “may justly insist that the evils of negro suffrage were wantonly inflicted on them.”

Six years later, the Times published a glowing profile of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the 100th anniversary of his birth, calling him “the great Southern leader.”

Ochs reportedly made contributions to rebel memorials, including $1,000 to the enormous Stone Mountain Memorial in Georgia that celebrates Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. He made the donation in 1924 so his mother, who died 16 years earlier, could be on the founders’ roll, adding in a letter that “Robert E. Lee was her idol.”

Removing vagrants disguised as peaceful protesters desecrating Federal property is in the best interest of normal Americans. These pukes are not the droids you are looking for.

This is not the future of a civilized society. But, vote for bumbling brain dead biden and this will be the new normal. Not only do these reprobates want the defund and abolish the police, they also want the same for the United States. Morons like ronald and greg support this bullshit because they themselves have not a principled value that would tell them ‘‘tis is wrong.

@Greg:

Unidentified federal agents grabbing U.S. citizens without specifying charges and whisking them away to unknown locations in unmarked vans… Nothing wrong there, apparently…

They aren’t unidentified. And, at least they aren’t put on trial using nothing but hearsay and their defense is not allowed to present any evidence, as your beloved Democrats like to do. These are violent ANTIFA thugs that scurry away and cower whenever confronted with opposition. Anyone picked up in ANTIFA garb that had the clear intention of getting or was involved in the ongoing riots should be delivered to GITMO. They are nothing but terrorists.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protesters-police-precinct-chant-burn-it-down?fbclid=IwAR0OdqY3sEeIqOVxIUWLSTDr6K6ZsB7-y1ZFdPtac2CgOlF4DqmYIP-NigA

These aren’t just little kids walking around and getting arrested by mean old GESTAPO agents; they are violent thugs used to getting away with doing whatever they feel like. Just the sort of thing YOU support, like threatening children with death for wearing a MAGA cap.

Maybe it would be more acceptable to you if they were dressed in black, masked and ganging up to beat innocent people with chains and clubs. You seem to approve of that activity.

If the officers are “unidentified”, how do you know who they are and that they weren’t properly trained? Get caught lying much? Besides, how much training does it take to round up Mommy’s little basement dwellers that, when approached, simply tuck tail and cower? Now they fear being grounded and having their Nintendo taken away for a week.

and the local police who have stated they don’t want your people in their command centers

That’s not true. The police want to go out and enforce the law. They want to protect the innocent citizens from the violent fascist thugs the Democrats so openly support and condone. It is the failed “leadership” of Portland and Oregon (as well as Washington) that prevents them from doing their JOB.

The Trump tool responsible for the Portland Gestapo tactics is Chad Wolf, a former lobbyist having no apparent qualifications to serve as an Acting Head of Homeland Security. We’ve had five DHS heads since Trump was elected.

Well, for someone with “no qualifications”, he’s doing a great job. It doesn’t take a lot of training to enforce the law against rioting thugs.

@July 4th American: Wow. They hypocrisy of the NYT, who engaged in an open and determined campaign to do whatever it takes to paint Trump as a racist, to keep their slavery supporting past secret. Perhaps the paper should be liquidated and the money dolled out as reparations.

@Ronald J. Ward:

One has to wonder how today’s rabid Fox News and OAN indoctrinated would have reacted in 2009 had Obama sent in storm troopers to round up teabaggers protesting against him to throw into vans and haul off to undisclosed locations- all at the objection of local governments.

Since the Tea Party marches and protests were NEVER violent (except when the left sent SIEU thugs to attack them), I think we would have responded very openly in support of the Tea Party. Do you think peaceful protesters should be attacked?

@Deplorable Me:

Yes

Wondering where is all of the uproar by social justice warriors at the NY slimes…

@Ronald J. Ward: But you said Obama should have attacked Tea Party protesters, who were NEVER violent. They don’t compare to the violent ANTIFA thugs being rounded up in Portland.

@July 4th American:

Removing vagrants disguised as peaceful protesters desecrating Federal property is in the best interest of normal Americans.

Okay, so you admit the removal of peaceful vagrants, or something.

To my knowledge, vagrancy is a misdemeanor enacted and/or enforced by local governments and is not a federal crime.

At what point do the feds come into a city unwelcome by the local government and remove those peaceful vagrants when they are, as you say, disguised as protesters? The alleged vagrants you speak of were picked up in the street and not in the process of destroying federal property.

What’s next, federal storm troopers infiltrating states and local governments and assaulting jay walkers?

Your argument is self defeating and nonsensical on the most elementary level.

Is there no limit to Trump trashing the Constitution that his cultists wouldn’t lie to defend him?

@kitt:

Yes the streets are for cars,

Okay, so under Trump and only under Trump, we can add your advocacy of abolishing the 10th Amendment along with your previous list of the 1st and the 4th ?

@kitt:

You might want to broaden your knowledge of enumerated powers as you seem to be trying to selectively and obviously ignorantly pick the white out of chickenshit.

But I doubt you’d be interested in educating yourself, or accepting any educational knowledge that would expose any critical arguments of this administration as you’ve been specifically been instructed not to by none other than this administration.

@Deplorable Me, #20:

They aren’t unidentified.

Now they’ve been identified. When they were caught on video unlawfully grabbing people off the street they weren’t.

These aren’t just little kids walking around and getting arrested by mean old GESTAPO agents; they are violent thugs used to getting away with doing whatever they feel like.

How do you know who all the individuals who were “arrested” are? The only reason you swallow such claims is because Trump and his flunkies are branding all protests as riots, and attributing every violent and unlawful act committed during the protests equally to everyone in the crowd. They’re labeling them collectively as anarchists and terrorists to promote fear and anger that can be politically exploited. This is no better and no more honest than proclaiming every policeman evil because there’s a small percentage of incompetents and bullying thugs somehow wearing the uniform.

@retire05, #33:

Trump needs to be declared a national menace and removed from public office. Hopefully the sensible majority of American voters will prevail in November, and he will be.

When recently asked directly, Trump would not say whether he will accept the November election result. If you can’t see that as a danger flag, you’re part of the danger. He’s essentially saying he can’t guarantee that he’ll abide by the dictates of the U.S. Constitution and leave office if voted out.

This is right up there with McConnell openly admitting before the Senate impeachment trial that his oath regarding a fair and impartial trial was irrelevant, and that the outcome was already determined. Such astonishing statements are made, and hardly any self-described republican “patriots” even blink.

Sunday, July 19, 2020 – Trump refuses to commit to accepting election result as Biden enjoys poll lead

@retire05:

Comrade Greggie-Poo…

Your thumb is showing through a hole in one of your sock puppets again.

FOX News, Sunday, July 19, 2020 – Trump pushes back against critics on coronavirus, addresses whether he will accept election results in exclusive interview

President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, challenged his critics on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, threatened a veto for the defense bill, and speculated on whether he will accept the results if his Democratic challenger wins the presidency in November…

NYT is a left wing propaganda cesspool. A sewer of lies.

As opposed to Hot Air, PJ Media, The Daily Caller, FOX News, etc? That’s hilarious.

How do YOU know?

I don’t. And that’s the point, isn’t it? When there are legitimate arrests, they aren’t made by people wearing paramilitary gear without identifying badges, who haul people off to undisclosed locations in unmarked rented cars without stating charges or reading them their rights. That’s more reminiscent of an extrajudicial kidnapping than an arrest.

Want to increase hostility to the police? Do more of that. That leaves unanswered the question of whether it’s intentional provocation or abject stupidity. In the case of the Trump administration, it’s a coin flip. I half suspect it’s Trump’s need for a distraction and a means to fire up his crowd. It’s Trump or anarchy, you know. The Acting Director of DHS has said as much.

@Greg: Hey Stoopid

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@Greg:

As opposed to Hot Air, PJ Media, The Daily Caller, FOX News, etc? That’s hilarious.

Yes, as opposed to sources that are not in the pocket of the Democrats and Soros. Exactly. You’re finally getting it.

Want to increase hostility to the police?

BULLSHIT! All you and the left care about is continuing the Democrat policy of allowing fascist political violence against authority. When the Democrat government won’t act to protect federal property or the public, EXPECT a President that actually cares about the Constitution, justice and law and order to step in and do their job for them… because they are obviously incompetent.

These spoiled little mommy’s boys, useful idiots all, will not stop their rioting and looting until they are FORCED to stop. It doesn’t take much to stop them; mostly just appear and ANTIFA runs away.

The officers were identified with everything but their names.

@kitt: In Democrat cities, Trump is the only leader they have.

This is a calculated escalation:

July 20, 2020 – Federal officers again tear-gas protesters in Portland, Oregon

And this is likely the beginning of a setup for even more:

July 20, 2020 – Homeland Security making plans to deploy some 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown

Trump is making a dangerous situation far more dangerous. He has surrounded himself with sycophants who aren’t going to tell him that. The results could be disastrous.