PODCAST: Federal Agents Occupy Portland

Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss Trump’s deployment of well-armed federal agents to Portland. The feds are carrying out mass abuses of protesters, including arresting people for an unnamed reason and throwing the detainees into unmarked minivans. Several journalists have been targeted. Police have disabled at least one man by shooting him in the head with a rubber bullet. City and state officials want the feds gone; however, Trump says they are deployed as part of his order to protest statues. 

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  • cechas vodobenikov

    nothing new in the military dictatorship, police state oligarchy—fake people w a fake constitution

  • freewheelinfranklin543

    I guess anti-empire is now an antifas, blm terrorist rag these days. You people have really lost it

    • disqus_3BrONUAJno

      Where is the evidence that they ever had it?

      • freewheelinfranklin543

        Write a coherent sentence and I might reply.

        • disqus_3BrONUAJno

          You don’t want to answer the question.

  • g

    “including arresting people for an unnamed reason”
    Oh, so they are just passing passive walkers, is it?
    Name some good citizen you know are being arrested.

  • tim

    Those terrible Feds out there risking their lives to protect others lives and property!
    Unmarked vans, the horror of it.

    • disqus_3BrONUAJno

      Are you a Stasi baby?

  • Brion Adair

    Sorry can’t get all worked up about the Feds taking out corporate sponsored and media supported insurrectionists, rioters, looters, vandals and the murderers they and now AE calls “protestors”.

    • disqus_3BrONUAJno

      We are so lucky that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to “corporate sponsored and media supported insurrectionists, rioters, looters, and vandals.

  • siamdave

    I think Trump ordered the statues be protected, not ‘protest’ed …

    • disqus_3BrONUAJno

      Trump suspended the First Amendment?