Portland Protesters Say Feds Are Pulling Over In Unmarked Cars and Interrogating Them

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Trump recently ordered federal law enforcement to intervene in the liberal Oregon city, where protesters have regularly taken to the streets for a month and a half

in unmarked cars and interrogating them as part of an effort to quell their First Amendment rights.

According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, a protester named Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O’Shea were demonstrating outside the Multnomah County Justice Center in Downtown Portland when a group of men in camouflage jumped out of an unmarked van and chased after them. While O’Shea managed to hide, Pettibone was taken by the men to the federal courthouse and put inside a cell. He was interrogated for 90 minutes before he was released.

“I just happened to be wearing black on a sidewalk in downtown Portland at the time,” Pettibone told OPB. “And that apparently is grounds for detaining me.” For the past month and a half, activists in Portland have appeared outside the courthouse to protest against police brutality and institutional racism in response to the brutal killing of George Floyd. Portland has long been a site of activism and peaceful protests, a reputation that contrasts sharply with the local police force’s excessive use of force, as

 

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Why don’t you try being real reporters and nvestigate these bogus claims?

Good, I hope these wanna be thugs cried like the little babies are

Probably because, you know, the communists tried setting a police precinct on fire after locking the police inside.

Trump’s police state. We are no better than China

Sweet, time to start water boarding

Good

Oh no, unmarked cars. Kinda like...I don't know...all police detectives ever. If that is your biggest concern, your revolution sucks.

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