'We have dozens, if not hundreds of federal troops descending upon our city. And what they're doing is, they are sharply escalating the situation,' Portland Mayor Wheeler says, adding that 'we haven't asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave.'
in May. Portland police said protesters tried to set fires and hit police with bottles and other objects on Thursday. The U.S. attorney in Portland, Billy J. Williams, said Friday that federal buildings have been under siege by protesters and that the federal agents in town are protecting taxpayers' property.
"The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent," he said."People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause and they're denied due process." "They are not helping us. They are hurting us," he said."They're escalating an already dangerous situation. And what I want to do is raise awareness nationally. This could happen in your city. And what we're seeing is a blatant abuse of police tactics by the federal government, by a Trump administration that's falling in the polls. And this is a direct threat to our democracy.
"Our local and state law enforcement officials had contained the situation," Wheeler said."The energy was coming out of the demonstrations. We had hoped they would end within a matter of days. And what happened instead is, the federal troops came in. They used their unconstitutional tactics. They injured nonviolent demonstrators, and the whole thing blew up again like a powder keg.
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