Last week, these videos started popping up on Twitter, showing how protesters are being

policed in Portland, Oregon.

These images stand out because they're just so different from videos of police brutality that

you might have seen a few weeks back in the first few days after George Floyd was killed.

Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up.

These aren't videos of cops in riot gear holding a line.

The law enforcement officers you see, they're almost silent.

Their faces are completely covered.

They swoop out of vans towards small groups of pedestrians and seem to pick people to detain at random. It's very different.

It's this insidious form of state violence that you see in, or you expect to see in, you know,

authoritarian countries.

Jonathan Levinson is a reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting.

I asked him to walk me through one of these clips.

It was shot downtown.

Looks like it could be any urban street corner.

Until the guys in desert camo roll up.

Use your words.

What are you doing?

A minivan is parked sort of across the street.

Two officers, camouflage, walk up, grab a guy, and they're walking him back to the minivan,

put him in and drive off.

And while they're doing that, the person filming is saying, you know, who are you? Identify yourself. The guy who they're grabbing is saying, I haven't done anything wrong. What's your name? Tell us your name. What's your name? Okay, you're fine. We'll get you out. You don't know who they are. you don't know who they're working for.

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