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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is the most insane image from Portland last night. (WTH is this?)
Link to tweet
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Whether that reaction is violent or not, it will be used as a pretext for more federal law enforcement troops to be deployed. He's picking on Portland because Oregon is lost to him in November, and he's playing for votes in Ohio and Iowa, as Gov. Brown perceptively pointed out.
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)We need to know where they came from, who hired them, how are they being paid, and how are they tied to Chump? I'll bet my next social security check that Eric Prince is somehow connected to this.
JHB
(37,166 posts)Could be Border Patrol personnel being used as Trump's mercenaries.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)We need to know! If it were US military, someone would be talking.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Glad its out there now.
LiberalFighter
(51,403 posts)superpatriotman
(6,256 posts)A Thurible.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,658 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)is clearly unacceptable.
However in the back drops the rioting and vandalism that ocurred in Portland including at federal building that had a fire set it in it is at center stage. That building has basically been under attack for 50 + days on nearly a nightly basis. This problem should have been descalated weeks ago.
The organizers of the protests do not condone the violence and destruction that had ocuured. In recent weeks they have closed down their rallies that ended with massive crowds and marches in the early evening and said we are done. Don't leave here and commit acts of violence or destruction in our name.
MagickMuffin
(15,985 posts)Ya know what other country gassed their citizens.
YEP!
Are these russian agents?
crickets
(25,995 posts)Link to tweet
Replying to
@BeefheartN
and
@JoshuaPotash
I watched a live stream last night. It is a tray filled with pepper spray. It can release large amounts without leaving canisters to identify gas used. Prob toxic.