Portland is in the news again, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is attacking our city with his Republican Gestapo storm troopers. In the guise of protecting federal buildings and monuments, they are kidnaping peaceful demonstrators from the streets using unmarked vehicles, even when the demonstrators are nowhere near federal buildings or monuments.
In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O’Shea decided to head home.
It had been a calm night compared to most protesting downtown. By 2 a.m. law enforcement hadn’t used any tear gas and, with only a few exceptions, both the Portland Police Bureau and federal law enforcement officers had stayed out of sight.
A block west of Chapman Square, Pettibone and O’Shea bumped into a group of people who warned them that people in camouflage were driving around the area in unmarked minivans grabbing people off the street.
“So that was terrifying to hear,” Pettibone said.
They had barely made it half a block when an unmarked minivan pulled up in front of them.
“I see guys in camo,” O’Shea said. “Four or five of them pop out, open the door and it was just like, ‘Oh shit. I don’t know who you are or what you want with us.’”
Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.
The tactic appears to be another escalation in federal force deployed on Portland city streets, as federal officials and President Donald Trump have said they plan to “quell” nightly protests outside the federal courthouse and Multnomah County Justice Center that have lasted for more than six weeks…. [emphasis added]
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Oregon and Portland officials are furious, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is making the situation worse.
Unmarked Federal Troops Snatching Protesters Raise Local Alarm
These Republican Storm Troopers should be convicted of kidnapping and sent to prison!
Wheeler: Unidentified Feds Detaining Protesters Are ‘Making Things Worse’
These are not law enforcement officers. They are criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* Nazi Gestapo pigs! However, if criminal Fuhrer Trump* was not in power, other Republicans would have done this.
Every Republican in power is one Republican too many!
RESIST!!
11 Responses to “Republican Gestapo in Unmarked Vehicles Kidnap Portlanders”
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Some of them appear to be Border Patrol and/or ICE. As of yesterday, anyone who asked for a lawyer was being released, but that may not last. I admit I am worried. There are suggestions that Kate call out the Oregon National Guard to oppose them … I don’t know. Please keep us posted.
Very bizarre, and frightening behavior coming from Federal law enforcement…with directives coming from dt.
Scary and scarier.
Like Joanne, please keep us in the loop…on this situation.
I wasn’t around, but this seems awfully 1930s Germany, doesn’t it?
Bingo.
Also not unheard of in Central and South America. Or Russia. Anywhere there is a dictatorship, really. (In Russia, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich kept a bag packed near the door 24/7, just in case the Secret Police came and took him in the middle of the night. He didn’t have to use it, but came close a few times.)
Sickness is rampant in the guise of protecting! Trump is probably rolling this crap out to see how much blowback it creates…or does not.
Very scary! You just have to wonder if this is a dry run or dress rehearsal for what Trump might try on 11/4/20.
It is happening here! Be afraid – be very afraid. If tRump is re-elected, this will be a mere foretaste of what we will enjoy for the next four years, or more in case tRump and his stooges make him “Prez for Life.”
TomCat, please don’t call them Nazi Gestapo Pigs. That’s not at all nice to pigs – and maybe even to Gestapo.
Freya, you have a good case there.
It’s insane what these idiots are doing to innocent protesters. Dragging them off in unmarked vehicles.
tRump and these idiots should be prosecuted for their wrong doing.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler told tRump to get these idiots out of Portland
Plus on the nightly news. they showed Oregon Governor Kate Brown saying these troops aren’t helping, they just escalates the problem.
Hopefully with all of these city officials speaking and writing to the W. H. they will get tRump to stop this ugly acts of torture.
America has become a fascist totalitarian country under the rule of emperor Trump. Sorry, I have no other words for it; it is all too reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi Germany in the 1930s. This doesn’t bode well for when Trump loses the election but refuses to go.
Thanks and Hurry Hugs to all!