'This is not a dictatorship!': Portland pushes back harder against Trump, federal agents
PORTLAND, Ore. — Najee Gow paced the street Tuesday in front of the graffiti-covered federal courthouse, a megaphone at his lips.! Feds go home! Get out of our city!” the 22-year-old man shouted. “This is not a dictatorship! This is a democracy!”
"People are legit afraid for their rights," Gow, a nurse, told USA TODAY."They are coming for our rights. They are exercising martial law." In Portland, activists said the federal presence had created more violence. According to federal court documents filed Tuesday, there are 114 federal officers deployed to Portland, including representatives from the Federal Protective Service, Immigration Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Marshals Service. Many of the deployed agents are wearing Department of Homeland Security patches but not nametags.
Conner O’Shea, 30, a protester who said he was chased by federal officers last week when leaving a protest, said the presence of federal agents has fueled renewed support for the demonstrations. "This is a testing ground, that’s what we’re telling people,” O'Shea said. Portland “is drawing a focus to federal brutality and what feels like an unwanted military operation.”
A line of federal agents block access to the road outside the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on Monday night during a protest.Over the weekend, a group of women formed a"wall of moms" between protesters and federal officials, chanting"Moms are here, feds stay clear" and"Leave our kids alone.
A fire illuminates people attending a protest at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on Monday night. "Unlike what happened in Portland, what we will receive is resources that are going to plug into the existing federal agencies that we work with on a regular basis to help manage and suppress violent crime," Lightfoot said."I've been very clear that we welcome actual partnership, but we do not welcome dictatorship."
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