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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Wall of Veterans' Arrives in Portland to Protect BLM Protesters from Trump's DHS Troops
A group of military veterans joined Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland as part of an effort to protect them from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) forces on Friday night.
Masked and goggled. Some wearing black hoodies emblazoned with Black Lives Matter. Some with attire designating their service branch. Many with their hands held tight behind their backs. Others with signs expressing opposition to recent attacks on demonstrators.
I am an American patriot, one such placard read. Federal troops defend property, but this does give them the right to take away my constitutional freedom.
The veterans say they were inspired to join the protests after U.S. Navy veteran Chris David was repeatedly beaten with a baton by one DHS agent before being directly pepper-sprayed in the face by another.
Read more:
https://lawandcrime.com/george-floyd-death/wall-of-veterans-arrives-in-portland-to-protect-black-lives-matter-protesters-from-trumps-dhs-troops/
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)LakeArenal
(28,855 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)triron
(22,025 posts)NCDem47
(2,250 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,808 posts)These Veterans served this country with honor. It matters that they are concerned that one of their own was treated badly.
More cities with Mom's and Veterans together in resistance. Show Trump he is waging a losing war.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)True dat.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)K & R
cp
(6,665 posts)Thank you.
Delmette2.0
(4,173 posts)that our country has come to this.
soldierant
(6,937 posts)during the Easter troubles ... and just as it says in the Counterinsurgency Manual (though probably phrased differently - I didn't go through all two megabytes) - every person unjustly treated brings ten more to the cause. Of course, that's ten, more or less. In the case of veterans, it's clearly more.
He can't even do despotism right.
Joinfortmill
(14,474 posts)onetexan
(13,067 posts)Gilbert Moore
(218 posts)Where is the "wall of politicians" ?
City Councilpeople, State Representatives, State Senators and the rest ? Where ? ? ?
triron
(22,025 posts)crickets
(25,986 posts)McKim
(2,412 posts)Our Mayor Ted Wheeler was out there and got tear gassed for doing nothing. Also a city councilwoman Joann Hardesty has been out there every night for BLM. We have good government here. They have demanded that the storm troopers leave for weeks now.
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Cha
(297,774 posts)iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And the feds shooting gas canisters at them from behind a metal fence that was their "wall."
triron
(22,025 posts)malaise
(269,200 posts)Beautiful
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And I'm in love with Chris David for what he's started.
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)Go Vets!
ZZenith
(4,130 posts)Federal troops defend property, but this does *NOT* give them the right to take away my constitutional freedom
crickets
(25,986 posts)Amy-Strange
(854 posts)-
Naw, that's bullshit. I love those movies, because they always make me cry, just like this article did.
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IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)These Vets get it.
A million thanks to them.