‘Reality TV spectacle’: outrage as federal agents raid LA neighborhood with horses and armored cars

"This morning looked like a staging for a TikTok video," said Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president of the Los Angeles city council, adding if Border Patrol wants to film in LA, "you should apply for a film permit like everybody else. And stop trying to scare the bejesus out of everybody who lives in this great city and disrupt our economy every day."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/los-angeles-park-federal-officers-national-guard

 

Takeaways from Supreme Court’s Trump ballot ruling - The Washington Post

States' efforts to disqualify former president Donald Trump from their primary ballots for "engaging in insurrection" have come to an end, with the Supreme Court ruling that states cannot enforce the 14th Amendment for federal candidates...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/takeaways-supreme-court-trump-ruling/

Supreme Court MAKES RULING in Trump Disqualification Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGKgqXRcj4

Portland: 1,000 peacefully protest amid withdrawal of federal agents

More than a thousand people showed up in downtown Portland early on Saturday to peacefully protest, about three days after the announcement that the presence of US agents there would be reduced – a deal that Oregon officials hope will continue to ease tensions as the city tries to move on from months of chaotic nightly protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/01/portland-1000-peacefully-protest-amid-withdrawal-of-federal-agents

GOPers Keep Falsely Implying A Protester Killed A Federal Officer In Oakland | Talking Points Memo

In fact, the FBI alleged, the murderer had no intention of joining the protests: He "came to Oakland to kill cops."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gopers-keep-falsely-implying-a-protester-killed-a-federal-officer-in-oakland

WATCH: New Lincoln Project ad flattens Trump for ‘violent abuse’ of moms – Raw Story

A new ad from the Never-Trumper group The Lincoln Project hammers Donald Trump for using heavily-armored federal law enforcement officials to attack moms attending police brutality protests in Portland and elsewhere.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/watch-new-lincoln-project-ad-flattens-trump-for-sending-violent-abusive-troops-after-protesting-moms/

Federal officers to pull out of Portland in a major reversal for Trump administration

The Trump administration is to pull federal paramilitaries out of Portland starting on Thursday in a major reversal after weeks of escalating protests and violence. Oregon’s governor, Kate Brown, said she agreed to the pullout in talks with Vice-President Mike Pence. Brown said state and city police officers will replace Department of Homeland Security agents in guarding the federal courthouse that has become the flashpoint for the protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/29/trump-administration-portland-protests-federal-agents

Fox News on Deploying Federal Agents 2020 vs. 2014 | The Daily Show

Tyranny check! Deploying federal agents in 2020 vs. 2014
https://youtu.be/Not-wdJvG-Y

Fact Check: How Violent Are the Portland Protests? - The New York Times

Attorney General William P. Barr said protesters had used fireworks, Tasers, pellet guns and lasers to target federal officers in Portland.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/portland-protests-violence-tactics-barr-fact-check.html

Wall of Moms, Black Lives Matter protesters sue Trump administration for use of tear gas, force in Portland - The Washington Post

Protesters who say they were tear-gassed, shot at, pepper-sprayed and assaulted outside a federal courthouse while peacefully demonstrating and rendering aid to others sued the Trump administration Monday over its use of force during nightly demonstrations in downtown Portland. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/wall-moms-black-lives-matter-protesters-sue-trump-administration-use-tear-gas-force-portland/

'These are his people': inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland

Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit equivalent to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/trump-border-patrol-troops-portland-bortac

The federal police in Portland don’t even understand what ‘arrests’ are - The Washington Post

The government cannot lawfully exercise its power of arrest if it doesn’t realize it is, in fact, arresting people in the first place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/portland-fourth-amendment-arrests/2020/07/24/c7e9822c-cceb-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html

Made-for-TV fascism: how Trump’s ‘crime explosion’ ploy could backfire

Trump is facing a big election with an even bigger need for a political masterstroke – enter a surge of federal agents to fight supposed violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/trump-federal-agents-portland-ploy-election

'That’s an illegal order': veterans challenge Trump's officers in Portland

Two veterans asked federal agents if they understood their oath to defend the constitution as teargas was fired ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/24/portland-trump-order-federal-officers-veterans-protests

American carnage: how conservative media amplify Trump's theme of chaos

Whether you believe the country is in the grip of an explosion of violence significantly depends on what media you listen to
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/24/donald-trump-conservative-media-protests-anarchy

Trump is using federal agents as his 'goon squad', says Ice's ex-acting head

The former acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which works under the Department of Homeland Security, has condemned the Trump administration’s handling of protests in Portland by deploying federal agents into the city.  John Sandweg, the former acting director of Ice, who also served as general counsel for the DHS, said Donald Trump was using the agency as his own “goon squad” by sending federal law enforcement agents to Oregon’s biggest city and vowing to send more to other cities around the country, including Chicago and Albuquerque. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/24/trump-goon-squad-john-sandweg-homeland-security-ice

Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents - ABC News

The mayor of Portland, Oregon was tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he stood outside a federal courthouse during another night of protests against the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump to quell the city's ongoing unrest. Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, appeared slightly dazed and coughed and said Wednesday night it was the first time he’d been tear-gassed. ....
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/portland-mayor-jeered-rally-protesters-71935497

“A Corrupt, Desperate President Corrupting an Agency”: Trump’s Weaponization of DHS Sets Off Alarm Bells | Vanity Fair

Portland has been Senator Ron Wyden’s hometown since the mid-1970s, so he has seen all manner of marches and protests. But as the Oregon Democrat walked the city’s streets last week, talking to locals and working to lower tensions that have persisted since the killing of George Floyd, he encountered a problem he’d never had to deal with before: Heavily armed federal troops wearing combat fatigues, dispatched by President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security, who were stoking violence instead of quelling it by firing rubber bullets and snatching civilian demonstrators.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/trumps-weaponization-of-dhs-sets-off-alarm-bells

Portland Protests Turn Violent After Federal Officers Shoot At Protesters

A Photographer Says He's Traumatized By What He's Captured In Portland https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/portland-photographer-takes-picture-officer-pointing-weapon

Trump Sends Thugs To Arrest Portland Protesters, Threatens Chicago And New York May Be Next

President Trump is doubling down on his strategy of using unidentified government operatives to intimidate, assault and violate the civil rights of peaceful protesters, warning from the Oval Office on Monday that Chicago and New York may be targeted next ....
https://youtu.be/arf0Sr_DspA