Police Brutality Protests Thread

[Jolene Benoir]

Trump Bragged About Gassing Portland’s Mayor: ‘They Knocked the Hell Out of Him’

75,000! Good God. He is planning a full scale invasion of American cities.

Nevertheless, Trump said that he could send as many as 75,000 more federal cops into cities, following the launch of “Operation Legend” earlier this week...

Trump indicated he was preparing for an invasion of major American cities, with or without the support of local officials. “We’ll go into all of the cities, any of the cities, we’re ready,” Trump said. “We’ll put in 50,000, 60,000 people that really know what they’re doing, they’re strong and they’re tough,” Trump said.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump is using federal agents as his 'goon squad', says Ice's ex-acting head

John Sandweg says the deployment of homeland security officials is a ‘manufactured crisis’ stemming from ‘a failure of leadership’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

JJ MacNab is an expert on the US far right whom I've followed for several years

 

[Kara Spengler]

Portland Mayor Tear Gassed By Federal Agents During Protests

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) was tear gassed by federal agents late Wednesday as he stood at a fence in...

talkingpointsmemo.com

It will be interesting to hear how they spin this.

 

[Free]

It will be interesting to hear how they spin this.

Police Brutality Protests Thread

Trump Bragged About Gassing Portland’s Mayor: ‘They Knocked the Hell Out of Him’ 75,000! Good God. He is planning a full scale invasion of American cities. Nevertheless, Trump said that he could send as many as 75,000 more federal cops into cities, following the launch of “Operation Legend”...

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One might say they didn't so much as spin it as they did lean into it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

American carnage: how conservative media amplify Trump's theme of chaos

Whether you believe the country is in the grip of an explosion of violence significantly depends on what media you listen to

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kara Spengler]

The media airs this crass pretender all the time, including violence they purposefully cause and promote, then go 'ah feel faint' when a protester is involved?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I swear, they just want complete power and are willing to accept anything as long as it target "other" people. They seem to WANT a dictator/despot.

As long as they can, in some way, benefit from it? Yes. Yes, they do.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Confused Federal Agents Unable to Determine Which Unmarked Van In D.H.S. Garage Is Theirs

“It’s like a baggage-claim nightmare,” an agent complained.

www.newyorker.com

You mean they couldn't have just pressed the horn button on their keyfobs to tell which van was which?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It's funny how conservatives lose their stomachs when the results of their belief structure is broadcast on live daytime TV nationwide. What happened in Portland was so much better when nobody from outside the area had to actually see it, right?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

America 'staring down the barrel of martial law', Oregon senator warns

Ron Wyden says Portland tactics threaten democracy while fellow Oregon senator Jeff Merkley deplores ‘military-style assault’

www.theguardian.com

Also

Chad Wolf: who is the Trump official leading the crackdown in Portland?

Trump’s fifth homeland security secretary has denied there’s a systemic problem in US law enforcement and overseen extreme immigration restrictions

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Rose Karuna]

Wow - I saw this today and I sure hope it circulates to as many people as possible. Yes, it's from the Lincoln project but that doesn't mitigate what it says about 45

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force

This is a government agency built on fear and intended to engender fear.

www.newyorker.com

Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force | The New Yorker

Skip to main content Our Columnists Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force By Masha Gessen July 25, 2020 Since early July, federal agents in military-style uniforms have waged ...

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Masha Gessen, has more experience of the Russian organisation than most, on the Department of Homeland Security as the US's KGB.

 

[Arkady Arkright]

Wall of US miltary vets in Portland last night, standing at parade rest in solidarity

 

[danielravennest]

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As a student of medieval history, the protestors are doing it wrong. They should be hooking the fence with a rope, and then get everyone in the crowd to pull on it. The fenceposts have about a 2 ft base extending towards the crowd, while the post is about 10 ft high. So pulling gives you about 5:1 leverage to either tip it over, bend, or break the base. Then they can just walk over the toppled fence.

I'm sort of amused that the federales are now in a cage of their own making.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

As he says, the whole article really is something else.

 

[Kara Spengler]

As a student of medieval history, the protestors are doing it wrong. They should be hooking the fence with a rope, and then get everyone in the crowd to pull on it. The fenceposts have about a 2 ft base extending towards the crowd, while the post is about 10 ft high. So pulling gives you about 5:1 leverage to either tip it over, bend, or break the base. Then they can just walk over the toppled fence.

I'm sort of amused that the federales are now in a cage of their own making.

Well, they do like cages in this administration.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland

The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered.

www.theatlantic.com

Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland - The Atlantic

Skip to content Popular Latest My Account Give a Gift Ideas Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered. J...

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Students of modern dictatorship will find these tactics wearily familiar. Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Trump admires, has deployed performative authoritarianism, alongside other tools, in order to keep himself in power for many years now. In 2014, during a political crisis in Ukraine, he created an elaborate media narrative that equated Ukrainian democracy protesters with 1940s fascists. Russian state television showed scenes of violence over and over again—scenes that Putin himself had helped create, first by encouraging the former Ukrainian president to shoot at demonstrators, and then by invading the country. He sent troops in unmarked uniforms—the infamous “little green men”—into Crimea and eventually eastern Ukraine to “dominate” the situation, to use Trump’s own word for his tactics in Portland. Or at least that was the way it was meant to look on TV.