'It looks like downtown Baghdad': Feds protecting
Portland's courthouse 'fear for their lives'
after 61 nights of unrest-but protesters
say they're just fighting back to protect
themselves as DOJ shares photos of confiscated
Molotov cocktails
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
by
Valerie Edwards
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/28/2020 11:59:24 AM
Federal officers who are protecting Portland's courthouse under the orders of the Trump administration have revealed that they 'fear for their lives' after 61 nights of protests in the city, but demonstrators say they are fighting back to protect themselves from the agents. President Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland earlier this month and has since said he would be sending 100 more troops into the city to protect federal property. Demonstrators have taken to the streets to demand justice for black men and women who have died at the hands of police officers across the US, including George Floyd who took his last breath under the knee
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/28/2020 12:08:02 PM (No. 492967)
The wisdom of the Founders in making D.C. a district and not a state is becoming clear.
18 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/28/2020 12:08:44 PM (No. 492968)
I really wish the media would explain why/how Federal agents upholding LAW and protecting property is putting rioters in danger. Just saying it doesn't make it so rioters. Besides, we have proof you all tried to burn people alive in barricaded buildings, blinding people who never touched you with lasers in their eyes, impalement with nails, mortars fired at LE officers/agents. So tell us again how you irresponsible, tantrum throwing thugs are in danger?
24 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
curious1 7/28/2020 12:13:56 PM (No. 492972)
Communists always claim they are 'just fighting back to defend themselves', especially when they start the fight. Ready yet to hang or deport every leftard in the country? It's not like we don't know who they are.
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From whom are the "peaceful protesters" getting their money for food and lodging? How many of them live locally?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 7/28/2020 12:23:39 PM (No. 492979)
These rioters are not "demanding justice" for anybody!!!
They are anarchists who are using this as an excuse to riot and pillage and destroy to try to bring about their goal of destroying our republic and establishing a Communist "paradise" here in the USA!!!
If they actually studied history, they would realize that they would be the first to be exterminated if they actually succeeded with their plan. The last thing the new Communist dictatorship would want are a bunch of trouble-makers running around. Just look at how Stalin purged his closest allies after taking power.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/28/2020 12:38:55 PM (No. 492989)
Lying white Marxists trying to justify their looting, assaulting and burning. All they have to do is go home to their basements and the problem is solved. It's time to give them something to complain about.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bamboozle 7/28/2020 1:08:28 PM (No. 493005)
The photos look like an Attack by the Zombies movie...utterly deranged people
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/28/2020 1:31:24 PM (No. 493018)
Hey, rioters, if you feel threatened by federal law enforcement how about just staying home? You won’t get the adrenaline rush of burning, looting and beating but at least you won’t “fear for your life”.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/28/2020 1:41:12 PM (No. 493021)
This is the real world of who and what the democrats are all about. These are not Trump supporters by any means. These are Hillary Obama Biden and Bernie supporters.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldoc 7/28/2020 1:56:26 PM (No. 493030)
Stop playing around and authorize deadly force.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
qr4j 7/28/2020 2:15:03 PM (No. 493042)
I am curious what would happen if the Federal government just left. Just let the rioters have the Federal courthouse. Let them burn it down. What would the rioters do then? Let Portland sink like the Titanic.
Is that want the rioters want? Is that what the Portland city council and mayor want? Is that what the State of Oregon wants?
Abandon it. And then sue the State of Oregon and the City of Portland for rebuilding the courthouse once this thing is over. Those rioters and the people of that city -- if that's what they want, that is, for the anarchists to take over -- they deserve whatever they get. Make them pay severely.
Abandon all hope for Portland. Let it sink.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 7/28/2020 2:30:28 PM (No. 493057)
The protestors must think that if they destroy the court houses that they wont be able to be taken to court.
And thus get way with destroying federal bldgs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/28/2020 2:41:35 PM (No. 493066)
Double down on the number of federal law enforcement agents. Give them the biggest guns in the arsenal and tell them, all bets are off if they cross the line. When they do, give them what they asked for. This kind of lawless behavior cannot be tolerated in a civil society. It will collapse under that weight. I hate to think anyone would be hurt or killed but this behavior cannot continue. Give them ample warning and then take care of business. They are lawless criminals and the democrats want to protect them. This will be coming to your neighborhood eventually. It is all in their plan. Too harsh? What is the alternative? Allow them to destroy the entire country?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Norway 7/28/2020 2:51:45 PM (No. 493071)
Why aren't the feds shooting those terrorists?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 7/28/2020 3:27:32 PM (No. 493088)
Sorry to all the snowflakes out there, but I'm sick and tired of all of this rioting crap...time to start getting real..the rioters are 'fighting back to protect themselves from agents' who are barricaded in a federal building? WTH? Time to start treating them like the rabid feral dogs that they are....tear gas doesn't work? Pepper spray doesn't work? How about water cannons? How about some FMJ in 5.56 size?
Time to end this insanity over a damned man who was apparently doped up, drunk, and wouldn't obey the police..If an officer tells you to do something, do it, and argue your position in court...don't fight him, don't grab for his gun, just go with the flow....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/28/2020 3:53:15 PM (No. 493109)
Did they ever take out a permit for peaceful assembly? I seriously doubt it. And why protest at night instead of day when cameras could better film your event? No, these are THUGS and wannabes who are Communists and are out to destroy our heritage and system to install their own. They must first be warned and then they must be utterly destroyed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dipi 7/28/2020 3:54:14 PM (No. 493110)
The only solution here is "The Mexican Solution". While stationed in Vietnam during my first tour there, I visited the library in the compound and read an article in Life magazine during July 1968, I believe. I read an article where the Mexican college students wanted to emulate their brothers from the North (United States people demonstrating and rioting during the Vietnam war). The first time they did that, the army opened fire on them and that was the first and last demonstration by Mexican students. I am sure the same policy here would work wonders with these snowflakes.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
watashiyo 7/28/2020 6:19:36 PM (No. 493198)
What's with the guy dressed in woman's clothes?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/28/2020 7:04:17 PM (No. 493227)
Tell them to disband or the shooting will start. Fire one volley over their heads and, if they refuse to leave, start taking them out. Enough is way past enough.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/28/2020 9:49:25 PM (No. 493326)
Feds with weapons and stuff fearing for their lives. What's wrong with that statement?
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I don't understand the problem. Shoot them. People do what you let them. Why tie the hands of those who can pull the trigger ?
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