Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets

[Nevilledog]

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/#.XxD9y_CwH4w.twitter


UPDATE (7:46 p.m. PT) — 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.’”

*snip*


Several posts about this, but wanted to give a direct link to the story about Portland. Thanks you nolabear and TDale313 for giving the heads up.

[Guilded Lilly]

1. It begins small...n/t

[Nevilledog]

3. This situation is really bad.

These are some sort of Federal Agents who have no loyalty to the nation.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. I thought I would pop in and do some late night catch/up...

and now I won’t be able to sleep.
Just the beginning.

[Nevilledog]

6. I hear you. It's disturbing, really disturbing.

[Pachamama]

11. Erik Prince's Academi?

Aka former Blackwater, formerly known as Xe?

I shit you not, I have from some very good sources that this organization needs to be watched closely and may be working with militias and the Boogaloos, Proud Boys etc.

Dead serious folks...I will put money on them having been in and around many cities both in “gear” and being part of the instigating of looting and destruction at BLM protests...

Watch this space as Rachel Maddow says...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

[NoRoadUntravelled]

2. It's beginning to look a lot like Russia

Federal Law Enforcement is there to protect Federal buildings yet now breaking the law by picking up protesters from other areas of downtown.

Not good. Not good at all.

[BigmanPigman]

4. "....every where you go"

I'd rather see everything looking a lot like Christmas, personally.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

16. Christmas is much better. I'd rather see that too.

But now, after reading your reply, that song is stuck in my head.

[smirkymonkey]

7. If this is what they are doing now, can you imagine what it will be like if Trump is in

office for another four years? We can be prepared to have anyone who speaks out against him or the Republicans to be snatched up in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. I honestly believe that is where he will go if he is not stopped.

Nobody has been able to stop him or make him obey the law so far, what makes anyone believes it will get better if he and his gang of thugs successfully steal the election?

[DSandra]

8. A lot of people before believed it wouldn't happen here...

Why wouldn't it happen here? You can't be a mature American without believing that just about anything extremely ugly is possible.

[CentralMass]

9. Wow.

[Captain Zero]

10. another snip and a strategy if you are arrested in this manner

Pettibone said he was put into a cell. Soon after, two officers came in to read him his Miranda rights. They didn’t tell him why he was being arrested. He said they asked him if he wanted to waive his rights and answer some questions, but Pettibone declined and said he wanted a lawyer. The interview was terminated, and about 90 minutes later he was released. He said he did not receive any paperwork, citation or record of his arrest.

“I just happened to be wearing black on a sidewalk in downtown Portland at the time,” Pettibone said. “And that apparently is grounds for detaining me.”

[Cha]

12. #TreasonoustrumpGestaop&BEANS

Link to tweet

[BSdetect]

13. k&r

[uponit7771]

14. How do we know they're federal officers? tia

[superpatriotman]

15. We don't

And if confronted with them I hope someone acts accordingly

They are enemies unless identified