Are federal officers kidnapping protesters off the streets? I don't know what's going on here but, whatever it is, it should stop. A lot of the protesters are jerks, but that doesn't mean we should be.

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...From Oregon Public Radio:

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Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.


From a Washington Post report:

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Pettibone said he still does not know who arrested him or whether what happened to him legally qualifies as an arrest. The federal officers who snatched him off the street as he was walking home from a peaceful protest did not tell him why he had been detained or provide him any record of an arrest, he told The Post. As far as he knows, he has not been charged with any crimes.


Videos from the streets of Portland are hardly comforting.

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Lots going on in this story, but let me point out just one: If agents are seizing people, throwing them in vans, driving them around, bringing them to the courthouse, putting them in cells, & trying to interrogate them, over hours, that's an arrest that requires probable cause.


Onward and upward,
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