{"id":40463,"date":"2020-07-18T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40463"},"modified":"2020-07-18T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T18:39:17","slug":"republican-gestapo-in-unmarked-vehicles-kidnap-portlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/18\/republican-gestapo-in-unmarked-vehicles-kidnap-portlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Gestapo in Unmarked Vehicles Kidnap Portlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Portland is in the news again, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is attacking our city with his Republican Gestapo storm troopers.&nbsp; 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.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1210\" height=\"726\" title=\"0718GOPPigs\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0718GOPPigs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0718GOPPigs.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019Shea decided to head home.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a calm night compared to most protesting downtown. By 2 a.m. law enforcement hadn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>A block west of Chapman Square, Pettibone and O\u2019Shea bumped into a group of people who warned them that <strong>people in camouflage were driving around the area in unmarked minivans grabbing people off the street<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that was terrifying to hear,\u201d Pettibone said.<\/p>\n<p>They had barely made it half a block when an unmarked minivan pulled up in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see guys in camo,\u201d O\u2019Shea said. \u201cFour or five of them pop out, open the door and it was just like, \u2018Oh shit. I don\u2019t know who you are or what you want with us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The tactic appears to be another escalation in federal force deployed on Portland city streets, as federal <strong>officials and President Donald Trump have said they plan to \u201cquell\u201d nightly protests outside the federal courthouse and Multnomah County Justice Center that have lasted for more than six weeks<\/strong>\u2026. [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OPB<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oregon and Portland officials are furious, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is making the situation worse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Rudb7Buhw8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unmarked Federal Troops Snatching Protesters Raise Local Alarm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1Rudb7Buhw8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These Republican Storm Troopers should be convicted of kidnapping and sent to prison!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yr31WOapGc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wheeler: Unidentified Feds Detaining Protesters Are &#8216;Making Things Worse&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yr31WOapGc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These are not law enforcement officers. They are criminal Fuhrer Trump&#8217;s* Nazi Gestapo pigs!&nbsp; However, if criminal Fuhrer Trump* was not in power, other Republicans would have done this.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Every Republican in power is one Republican too many!<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland is in the news again, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is attacking our city with his Republican Gestapo storm troopers.&nbsp; 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 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/18\/republican-gestapo-in-unmarked-vehicles-kidnap-portlanders\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712,3711,3732,3724,3998,3743,3714],"class_list":["post-40463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-crimes","tag-nazis","tag-oregon","tag-police-misconduct","tag-republican-reich","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}