More than 30 Portland moms linked arms on Saturday to create a human barrier between protesters and law enforcement
, led by acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, opted to send in officers with the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Protection Service anyway.against several of those agencies for “overstepping their powers and injuring or threatening peaceful protesters on the streets of Downtown Portland.
The videos of that alleged overreach are what inspired 63-year-old Julia Peattie, who had never attended a protest before, to link arms with the Wall of Moms on Saturday.
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