They went in and I guess they have many people right now in jail. They Only after that last tactic gathered national headlines would the country take notice and ask: Was Portland really a “city under siege,” as acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf described it? By the time federal officers stopped marching, the line of law enforcement officers was blocks away from federal property at the courthouse.After multiple failed strategies in response to the protests and a continued inability to end the nightly demonstrations, Portland Deputy Chief Chris Davis met with the media. The New York Times reported that demonstrators in Portland, including some who identify as Antifa, the loose coalition of self-described anti-fascist activists, have had years of conflict with law enforcement. “'They are only escalating things here in the city and you need to go home. Marshals Service issued a statement denying their officers participated in Pettibone’s arrest.
“Portland was very rough and they called us in, and we did a good job, to put it mildly. Oregon's governor told OPB she spoke with Wolf on the phone earlier in the week.“I said, ‘Please take your officers home,'” Brown told OPB’s "Think Out Loud®." - FLAG, BANNER and KITE INSIDER-This article brought to you by David Anchel-Elmer's Flag and Banner, Kites Too! And if we have a question about somebody's identity — like the first example I noted to you — after questioning determine it isn't someone of interest, then they get released. She dared the officers to shoot, and they obliged — spraying the ground inches from her feet with pepper balls.Sign up to get important news and culture from around the Northwest, delivered to your inbox six days a week.OPB’s critical reporting is made possible by the power of member support. Protesters had settled into a nightly routine at the Multnomah County Justice Center.
That night, federal officers emerged from the boarded-up courthouse to fire pepper balls at demonstrators who came too close to the building. When a tear gas canister landed at his feet, he bent over and pushed it a few feet away.
Their appearance changed the protests. Marshals Special Operations Group, Customs and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit or BORTAC, and the Federal Protective Service quickly filled the courthouse’s covered entryway with tear gas. “One of them said, ‘This is a whole lot of nothing.’ He seemed disappointed that I didn’t have any weapons or anything on me.”Pettibone was placed in a cell by himself and read his Miranda rights, he said. '"Before leaving, Wolf went live on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, where he said the Department of Homeland Security would continue to have a presence in Portland despite opposition from local, state and federal officials from Oregon.“We need to make sure that we’re supporting our law enforcement officers here and making sure that they’re continuing to protect the federal courthouse here; that’s what DHS does,” Wolf said. Federal police disperse the crowd using tear gas. If Portland was on the verge of calm prior to the arrival of the feds in force, it would have been the first time since the killing of George Floyd. Homeland Security officials did not respond to written questions about the arrest.National scrutiny of the Department of Homeland Security increased, with a fresh round of condemnation from Oregon lawmakers, as well as national figures such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California.U.S.
They engage with protesters, make arrests, deploy tear gas, and conduct operations blocks away from the federal buildings they are meant to safeguard. He held a boombox over his head with both hands. Demonstrators yelled at the officers hiding behind small hatches cut in the plywood facade of the boarded-up building; the holes were used as blinds to fire pepperball munitions on the crowd.A federal law enforcement officer sprays a protester with pepper spray from inside the federal courthouse during 4th of July demonstrations against systemic racism and police violence. “Portland was totally out of control. I wouldn’t say this is used anywhere else,” Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security, told NPR. Fireworks shows across the country, including Portland, had been canceled because of the pandemic, but protesters filled the gap.After more than a month of police using tear gas, impact munitions and flash bang devices to disperse enormous crowds and largely nonviolent demonstrations, the protesters on Independence Day had a fireworks display of their own. And that's standard law enforcement procedure, and it's going to continue as long as the violence continues.”The backlash against border patrol actions on Portland streets did little to deter federal law enforcement.In the early hours of the morning, with no clear provocation, federal officers dressed in camouflage used tear gas, pepper balls and other impact munitions to push hundreds of protesters far from federal property. The officers later assisted PPB in dispersing hundreds of protesters from downtown.After about 15 minutes, federal officers grew impatient. If it starts again, we’ll quell it again, very easily. It’s not hard to do.”Officers put the person’s hands behind their back and walked them back to an unmarked van before driving away.In a separate incident, around 2:30 a.m., Mark Pettibone was also grabbed by federal agents in camouflage.Pettibone said he was taken to the federal courthouse where federal officers searched and photographed him but gave no reason for his arrest.“They patted me down, took my picture and rummaged through my belongings,” Pettibone said. He was released about 90 minutes later.“It was clear to me that this was just a totally indiscriminate detainment,” Pettibone said.Speaking in the Oval Office later that day with Attorney General Bill Barr, Trump again spoke about the protests in Portland and alluded to a larger role federal law enforcement could play in cities across the country, similar to Portland.“We're doing a great job in Portland,” Trump said. Gov.
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