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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the Portland Secret Police Happened
https://thebulwark.com/how-the-portland-secret-police-happened/The rule of law matters most in times of crisis.
Today, America is in crisis along multiple fronts and instead, we may be sliding into unauthorized and unaccountable federal policing and domestic security activity.
This is the story of what has happened.
On May 25, George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis. In the weeks that followed there were public protests across the nation, as well some concurrent acts of violence.
During the period, federal law enforcement personnel were deployed robustlypurportedly to protect federal property and restore public safetyin the nations capital and elsewhere. Over 15 different federal government agencies or components, including multiple agencies across the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were reported as taking part in the federal law enforcement response in the District of Columbia in May.
This past week, DHS personnel, including officers of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), were deployed by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct domestic law enforcement activities in Portland.
But policing protest activity, in particular, requires a special sensitivity to and protection of constitutional rights. And the reports out of Portland indicate that DHS has provided an uncontrolled and over-militarized response.
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How the Portland Secret Police Happened (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2020
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Nictuku
(3,617 posts)1. I had to do a doubletake
... when I first read " Acting Secretary of Homeland Security" for some reason I read "Actung Secretary of Homeland Security". Freudian slip?
Nevilledog
(51,203 posts)2. A close to accurate one.
nykym
(3,063 posts)3. Their presence was
requested by the douchenozzle DarylTurner, the president of Portland's rank-and-file police union the Portland Police Association (PPA).
He has no authority to request this.