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Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting. Start at 9:30 timestamp: https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570 People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without c…

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This sort of thing is terrifying to me. I've read a little bit about the Stasi, and back then the whole idea behind it seemed too absurd to believe. Now we're living it. If you question or protest the status quo, you are literally putting your life in danger.

These people are not protestors. There were rioters who would mix in with the protestors and then start violence. Protestors don't show up dressed in all black with a helmet and baseball bat. They have also been allowed to throw bricks, molotovs, bats etc on law enforcement and people. They are destroying the peaceful protests to turn them into violence. Local law enforcement hasn't been doing anything to stop it bec…

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As a Portland resident, I can confirm the PPB has been escalating peaceful protests in neighborhoods. A few days ago protesters (including a mother of a protester who was horrifically maimed by an impact munition to the face by feds) were attacked and teargassed outside the police union hall in a very residential neighborhood.

The border patrol, DHS, and Portland Police Bureau are purposely terrorizing the citizens of Portland for political motives every single night. Portland is a lightning rod for right-wing animosity.

A lot of previously passive citizens are becoming radicalized by these events (similar to wartorn countries) and it kind of feels like a foreign occupation at this point.

I don't think I can ever go back to trusting police or the federal government the same way.

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting. Start at 9:30 timestamp: https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570 People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without c…

Fta: “interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity.

Demonstrators like O’Shea and Pettibone said they think they were targeted by federal officers for simply wearing black clothing in the area of the demonstration.“

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting. Start at 9:30 timestamp: https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570 People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without c…

Even if I agree with your assessment, none of this excuses using unmarked vehicles, unmarked uniforms and not explaining themselves.

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The video of this is crazy. It looks like a Hollywood movie.

Do you have a link?

Here’s a video with 2.9M views at my time of posting.[1] It is the source video of the video linked at the @greg_doucette page.[2] Oddly, I am blocked by this user, though I have no idea who they are. How or why, I couldn’t say. I only mention the block because it prevented click-through while signed-in.

[1] https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1283328232033411072

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/128345258594...

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting. Start at 9:30 timestamp: https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570 People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without c…

You say, “what’s really happening” and then follow up with generalizing all local governments as the same and all protestors as rioters, so I’ll assume your post isn’t very sincere.

But I’d like a sincere response: What difference does it make what they did if they were apprehended by unidentifiable officers? That’s the topic at hand - the fact that police are apprehending people in ways that are not identifiably different from kidnappings.

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting. Start at 9:30 timestamp: https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570 People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without c…

>People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without context OR they only share the ending part where they are arrested and not the part where they were instigating violence in the peaceful protests.

I'm not sure the video that you've linked is any better. It's basically someone dismissing it saying they were bad people who deserved it. It adds zero information.

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting. Start at 9:30 timestamp: https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570 People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without c…

Even if I agree with your assessment, none of this excuses using unmarked vehicles, unmarked uniforms and not explaining themselves.

At some point people become enough of a liability that we collectively as a society have authorized the restriction of their rights.

This is a literally subversive movement. I'm not exaggerating or choosing a side. Watch the livestreams yourself - these people explicitly seek to subvert, dismantle, and replace modern "power structures" (intentionally left vague).

Whether you agree with what these people think they're fighting for, the system has safeguards against such insurrection.

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