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A federal agent in Portland has been captured on video kneeling on a young woman's back as she yelled that she couldn't breathe.
The woman identified herself as Noelle Mandolfo in multiple videos posted to Twitter, including one shared by a Blaze TV reporter that captured the arrest outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in downtown Portland in thefa early hours of Monday. "Get off of me! Why? Why are you doing this?" Mandolfo is heard asking the agents restraining her in the video.
"Stop resisting," the federal officer sitting on her back tells her. He is seen adjusting position to kneel on her back instead after she repeatedly says that she can't breathe. Another officer is seen kneeling on her arm. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I cannot breathe," Mandolfo adds. She then repeatedly asks the agents why they are detaining her while they tell her again to "stop resisting."
"What the f*** is happening? Why? Why would you pick me? Why? Answer!" the woman adds. "Give me my f**king phone!" she later yells. Another video, posted on Twitter by Brendan Gutenschwager, shows an agent removing items from Mandolfo's pockets while another holds her hands behind her back and continues to kneel on her.
More at: https://www.newsweek.com/portland-arrest-woman-cant-breathe-federal-agents-1520638
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,754 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)Amaryllis
(9,526 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)Am not familiar with the live streamer shown in this piece from my many nights of watching protests, and thats because of who he works for: the blaze.
I will look into this more.
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)Wake up --- coming to a city near you soon.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Bayard
(22,196 posts)Don't see anything in the article, but it is on the video.
I would think these guys would have learned their lesson about kneeling on people's backs.