Police Brutality Protests Thread

[Romana]

This is interesting.
Any here on how long before Dump/Barr try to force this US attorney out?
Or are they in on it and it's just political theater?

US attorney requests DHS investigation after video shows masked, camouflaged federal authorities arresting protesters in Portland | CNN

"This is a fight to save our democracy," said Kelly Simon, interim legal director with the ACLU of Oregon.

www.cnn.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

It's a textbook example of the slippery slope at work -- give the authorities unusual powers that will be used only in exceptional circumstances and, over time, the authorities will expand the boundaries of those exceptional circumstances to cover pretty much anything, which is why you really do need very effective judicial oversight in the form of strong human rights laws, cos if you don't, then the inevitable happens.

Were the Actions of Federal Agents in Portland Legal? - The New York Times

Were the Actions of Federal Agents in Portland Legal? The Department of Homeland Security can point to federal statutes protecting property to justify the arrests of protesters in Portland, Ore., but ...

www.evernote.com

 

[Soen Eber]

So these federal agents are comitting false arrest under color of law and kidnapping [shows his Internet lawer license] and they can be arrested if I'm reading this right.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"You ARE the Brute Squad."

 

[Romana]

It really rankles me that Dump had been able to use these justified protests to his advantage, ie., Portland, which he's threatened to expand to other cities, all with Democrat mayors of course. A combination of far right agitators and propaganda has the Faux News demographic convinced that it's the actual protesters who are looting and burning, and that they want to topple statues of, yes, Jesus. And of course, it's is all the dreaded AnTIfa funded by Soros, or maybe Bill Gates. But The Storm is coming and Q will save them.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'm not as worried that they'll win, but rather that there are actually 'normal' americans who think this is appropriate. However, this is why I'm not worried about them winning...

[He did a previous one that went more into why what is happening in portland is going to backfire... here he goes into 'I was being literal, not figurative when I spoke of the manual...'

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Trump on Portland:

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I'm not as worried that they'll win, but rather that there are actually 'normal' americans who think this is appropriate. However, this is why I'm not worried about them winning...

[He did a previous one that went more into why what is happening in portland is going to backfire... here he goes into 'I was being literal, not figurative when I spoke of the manual...'

The manual he discusses

https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf

 

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[Romana]

I know there will be a successful GoFundMe if he needs any help with his medical bills, but this still makes me sad.
Damn, I hope he doesn't lose function in that hand.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I know there will be a successful GoFundMe if he needs any help with his medical bills, but this still makes me sad.
Damn, I hope he doesn't lose function in that hand.

Portland protester and Navy veteran Christopher David was beaten and pepper sprayed by federal troops in standoff at federal courthouse - The Washington Post

Morning Mix A Navy vet asked federal officers in Portland to remember their oaths. Then they broke his hand. A man is sprayed by a police officer during a protest against racial inequality in Portland...

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[Free]

President Trump Has Reenergized Portland’s Protests

The crowds gathering outside downtown courthouses on July 18 and 19 were as large as any Portland has seen in the past month.

www.wweek.com

President Donald Trump deployed federal police to Portland to quell six weeks of protests. He has achieved the opposite effect.

The crowds gathering outside downtown courthouses on July 18 and 19 were as large as any Portland has seen in the past month. The crowd also appeared significantly older than at any previous demonstration.

That's in no small part because reports of aggressive tactics by federal officers—including shooting a protester in the face with a munition, detaining people in rental vans, and tear gassing a county commissioner—have galvanized residents of this city to confront what they see as a military occupation.

My favorite part:

A line of yellow shirts—mothers of all ages—stood outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, linking arms, kicking their legs in a chorus line, and joining in chants that decried the U.S. Federal Protective Service.

Edie, a Portland mother expecting a grandchild, said the sight of federal police using tear gas on moms July 18 outraged her. (She declined to give her last name.)

"The wall of moms were in white yesterday, and they were tear gassed and shoved," she said. "So we came in yellow today. and we're alongside the fence telling them: 'Feds go home, the moms are here.'

 

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[Jolene Benoir]

His planned expansions into democratic-led cities looks an awful lot like rounding up and disappearing political opposition, to me and the timing is very suspect, as well.

I don't need to tell anyone the history nor ramifications of that.

 

[Romana]

New York, that's really pushing it. There are still protests, but there's nothing that even comes near the kind of violence he insists is going on. I don't think Cuomo is just going to let Dump ride roughshod over us. And if DeBlasio does, he for sure will not be reelected.