When the feds came to Portland
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🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:55.4 | A few weeks ago, the Black Lives Matter protests were basically anywhere you looked in the United |
| 0:59.9 | States, but in Portland, Oregon, they never really stopped. And then something happened there |
| 1:05.6 | that a lot of other cities didn't experience at all. Federal agents in full camo, fatigues, |
| 1:11.9 | showed up, and started throwing people in unmarked minivans. Oregon public broadcasting |
| 1:18.0 | has been covering this story. I spoke with OPB's Conrad Wilson this morning. |
| 1:23.1 | For weeks, the Portland police bureau has been policing these protests, and they were |
| 1:27.9 | policing them really aggressively. But the federal government started to get involved really |
| 1:33.4 | around the 4th of July. This event has been declared a riot, dispersing immediately if you |
| 1:39.8 | have a first, your second cure, and for use of force, you'll include crowded police. |
| 1:46.7 | We saw a pretty big night where basically federal law enforcement came out of the |
| 1:51.8 | courthouse, and really like cleared protesters through the city. They went several blocks away |
| 1:57.4 | from the federal courthouse. Their state of mission here has been to protect federal property |
| 2:02.6 | and personnel. We took note of the fact that here you have federal law enforcement that are, |
| 2:07.5 | blocks into the city, blocks away from federal property. They claimed they were going from one |
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