days before that. In response, the Department of Homeland Security sent officers to Portland, Seattle, Gettysburg National Park in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection memo dated July 1 noted that the executive order created a DHS task force to “surge” federal law enforcement resources to protect against potential civil unrest.
Just before 11 p.m, protesters fired a variety of fireworks, including some commercial-grade fireworks, at the federal courthouse. Some also aimed green laser pointers at the exterior. 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.
“I don’t have authority over federal officers,” Davis said. “They’re governed by their own policies and procedures. They’re acting under federal law, federal authority. … It does complicate things for us.” Unlike several of his fellow city commissioners, the governor and Oregon’s two U.S. senators, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler took almost 18 hours to respond. His written statement bemoaned the violence, but didn’t go as far as other elected officials in condemning federal behavior.
At the White House, Trump said nothing of the injuries to protester LaBella, and praised the federal law enforcement’s response. “They patted me down, took my picture and rummaged through my belongings,” Pettibone said. “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.”
OPB Do better at masking your bias. The tax payers in Portland are the ones suffering. Millions in damages for them to pay. Wheeler and Brown have done nothing
OPB Curfew ?
otdderamin OPB Under siege by fucking whom? I'm sure portlanders have a very different idea from washington's.
OPB Did you not check to make that the picture accompanying the article matches your framing?
OPB Huh?
OPB “freelance reporter Garrison Davis. “The federal officers.......It’s harder to get a sense of what their goal is....” Really? They said they were there to protect federal property. What part of that don’t you understand?
OPB Disgraceful! Looks like a scene from a 3rd world country! tedwheeler is a lightweight disgrace of a mayor!
OPB This country is under siege by trump Nazis. Only one thing to do with Nazis. We've done it before.
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OPB Yes, he would know, wouldn't he:
OPB Ground Zero looked like a big party hang out place a bunch of college & adult kids! That have nothing to do! Everybody’s got the point! What point are you guys making now? Now it looks like you are purposely upsetting the police to get on Camera or something!
OPB NPR trying real hard to make rioters look virtuous. Keep going, NPR! you can do it! Violence is acceptable when it’s done out of liberal righteousness.
OPB You are no longer a serious news org
OPB Yeah, good luck with that.
OPB The Trump organization paints itself as ANTI-COMMUNIST to the MAX. Except in Portland Oregon. There, they are PRO-COMMUNIST to the MAX. A federal government picking up people without cause in unidentified and marked vehicles by anonymous people... That's communism right there!
OPB Good. The Left let it turn into a hell hole of anarchy and it needs to be taken back and restored for normal citizens.
OPB 50 days of violent protest met with peaceful police response. There, fixed it for ya.
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OPB POTUS is using covert action to encourage rioting and enflame the protests everywhere. This is disgusting and illegal. He wants these riots to continue so he can blame the left. Does nobody see through this?
OPB .Law enforcement may have become the occupying force but they aren't smashing windows, tagging buildings, tearing down monuments or holding public property hostage. Spin it any way you want but law enforcement is there to do their job...enforce the law.
OPB I don't agree with lawlessness. Something has to be done.
OPB He is starting a battle in our front yard! TreasonousTrump
OPB You're campaigning again.
OPB Not a peep out of Cliven Bundy and his ilk. Seems it only works when it suits them. 😷
OPB You do mean “rioters?” Because people who destroy are not protesting.
OPB Trying to rewrite the fact that this is all because municipal police, and federal “secret” police, are using unnecessary excessive force with no accountability against peaceful protestors demonstrating against police using unnecessary excessive force with no accountability.
OPB TrumpCrimeSyndicate
OPB African Americans have been demanding deoccupying their neighborhoods and lives since before emancipation. USA, land of equal opportunity for oppression by authoritarian state.
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OPB They should have stated doing this a lot g time ago. Take these rioting animals off the street.
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OPB You folks are NPR are shameless liars. You have your reward.
OPB Where are the missing people?
OPB Strange, biased narrative. Who has Portland under siege? Protesters owning the streets, trashing federal court building and talking about autonomous zone takeover outside? Or feds playing defense, trying to chase them off? 🤔 PortlandProtest
OPB AntifaTerrorists
OPB Apparently, he is the ONLY one who thinks that.
OPB StumptownMike You ok?
OPB And this is EXACTLY what Trump wants Lots of unrest and video fodder for his campaign ads Left wing socialists running a amok in a liberal Left-coast city. Plus he gets to play with his new toy Secret Police
OPB The federal government has always had the jurisdiction to secure it’s own buildings and assets, and to arrest or detain anyone that threatens those assets. Stop pretending this is something unique or new. Simple solution. Stop trying to burn or vandalize the federal courthouse.
OPB I live just outside of down town. 99.9% of PDX and surrounding communities are fine. There are peaceful protests, people expressing their 1st Amendment right on a couple different streets. There are a few anarchists making their mark like dogs on a federal building. Go home Trump
OPB “Peaceful”, as in peaceful protest. Defined as: Free from disturbance. Tranquil. No violence. Absent from definition: Riot. Burn. Deface. Loot. Break in. Fight. Break curfew. Tear down. Vandalize. Act like a spoiled idiot. 55 days of peaceful riots. 🤔🤔
OPB Gestapo tactics worked for the nazis
OPB Silencers on AR-15s in PortlandProtest Spotted by mtronics and identified by MikePerryavatar Clearly escalates military tactics against protesters and Moms. MikePerryavatar is former Special Forces and knows the hardware. Please check their tweets and investigate
OPB This is an outright lie. defundnpr cancelnpr
OPB That looks like a federal agent on that pedestal. Why wiukd you publish a photo shiwing the problem abd then call it something else totally unrelated. That is gas lighting
OPB Portland is a city under siege, not by protesters, but by Trump’s Federal Storm Troopers, who have invaded and attacked our citizens for exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest, without authorization from the governor, mayor, nor local law enforcement.
OPB Meanwhile the media write garbage like this that will encourage more riots and division.
OPB They should clean up this mess!!! It is insane that this is going on for four weeks already! Store owners should sue the city for not protecting their property!!! Ridiculous! What do these bozos want?
OPB The party of hate and lawlessness will not win.
OPB This outlet always sides with rioters, thugs and vandals. Defund NPR.
OPB The Illuminati call America 'A city under siege'.
OPB Oh shut up, theyre the only ones that are trying to make the city livable again
OPB It is. Time to reclaim the city from the enablers that let it get that bad.
OPB This is pure DNC propaganda. Portland is burning. It's time to DefundNPR
OPB Destruction of property, occupation and obstruction of property, failure to have a permit and pretty much making people's lives a living hell in Portland has forced the federal govt. to arrest vandals and domestic terrorist with normal agents. Trump2020Landslide
OPB The more desperate he gets, the more he transitions from distracting chaos, to Orwellian chaos.
OPB Follow TheNAJournal for non-partisan journalism. No bias... just the news. Not the mainstream media.
OPB Growing up in a conservative, Republican household, I heard a constant refrain of: 'government should be afraid of the people, not vice versa.' Now look at Trump's goons in Portland. Under DictatorDon the GOP has abandoned every single principle they ever claimed to hold dear.
OPB Good! If people don't like this country they can live anywhere else in this world!
OPB America is a fascist nation
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