PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Trump administration has started talks with the Oregon governor’s office and indicated that it would begin to draw down the presence of federal agents sent to quell two months of chaotic protests in Portland if the state stepped up its own enforcement, a senior White House official said Tuesday.
So…whaattt? This was just a drive by? In Seattle they swarmed the streets, insisted they were ‘attacked’, did a mass arrest on Saturday night and then released them all late Monday with no charges after arraignment. On the arrest sheet over the weekend it read ‘ASSAULT, bail denied’ and then nada when the courts go involved…and then Federal troops ‘left the city’. What a clusterf*.
I just dashed in to catch a few minutes. Ended up staying through the whole hearing. It was worth watching Barr squirm. Not a good day for Barr or Trump. If I remember right, some Republicans showed up as well there.
“We’ll remove our knee from your neck if you swear to round up and incarcerate EVERYONE who thinks that Black Lives Matter, everyone who thinks that institutionalized racism exists within law enforcement within our country, and everyone who says anything against us and our Dear Leader. Only then will we let you breathe free, just a bit.”
The asskissing by the ‘pukes that I heard were enough to make me turn it off. "Please tell everyone who’s been inconvenienced by these people exercising their First Amendment rights, especially those who may have dented their batons on rioters’ heads."