AP item carried by SeattlePI: "US attorney: Feds will stay in Portland until attacks end." And the Homeland Security deployed outside agitator thugs show no sign of lessening their attacks, so it will last until election day, and more. The money quote:
Local and state officials said the federal officers are unwelcome.
Meanwhile, the mayors of Portland and five other major U.S. cities appealed Monday to Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to deploy militarized agents to cities that don't want them.
Yes. Extend the Posse Comitatus restraint against use of the the federal military forces within our borders to include paramilitary undisciplined and hostile Homeland Security forces [aka Trump's private army of deployed thugs]. This request to Congress being necessitated by the derailed intentional actions of a super-divisive and inflammatory DC administration.
Barr-Trump policy at its worse. Pissing all around and on sane norms of justice and treasured federal power limitations we enjoy per Constitutional Bill of Rights rule of law.
Key mid-item paragraphs:
“This administration's egregious use of federal force on cities over the objections of local authorities should never happen,” the mayors of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington wrote to leaders of the U.S. House and Senate.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty late called for a meeting with Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to discuss a cease-fire and removal of heightened federal forces from Portland.
The city has had nightly protests for two months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. President Donald Trump said he sent federal agents to Portland to halt the unrest, but state and local officials said they are making the situation worse.
Trump’s deployment of the federal officers over the July 4 weekend stoked the Black Lives Matter movement. The number of nightly protesters had dwindled to perhaps less than 100 right before the deployment, and now has swelled to the thousands.
[italics added] That's right. A situation being aptly handled locally was intentionally inflamed ten-fold by hoodlums from Homeland Security doing exactly what the Trump-Barr pair wanted, raising hell and distressing people. Especially distressed are local officials who want the hoodlums out, yesterday not being soon enough.
Vote the BASTARD out. He is a clear and present danger. Multiplying protests ten-fold is likely more than the reelection-challenged schmuck wanted, and he must be proud of his yet again failure. The man of a special talent - the unequaled ability to bankrupt a casino. That together with Trump's henchman Barr, the sick dissembling power-inventing private prep school's headmaster's son, with an authoritarian anti-protest ax to grind.
When a host of city mayors are compelled to have no option but to petition Congress to curb executive branch excessive use of force against citizens, things have reached a point where there is no sane option to voting Biden in, despite his historic level of conservative baggage and all.
BOTTOM LINE: Gestapo tactics in the streets of Portland are anti-American. There is no other, better truth beyond that.