Opinion: The Oregon governor wants federal officers out of Portland. Trump officials won’t listen. Why?
For almost two months, protests — often peaceful, sometimes less so — have been going on in Portland, Ore. But recently they caught the attention of the president of the United States, who spied an opportunity to create a dramatic confrontation that would advance his reelection message of “law and order.”But guess what? Local officials don’t want them to do this. And for very good reason: It’s apparently making the situation worse.In an interview, Gov.
Brown said that on Tuesday, she bluntly told the acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, that the presence of federal officers in the streets was exacerbating matters. Wolf has since painted a lurid picture of the protests to justify the use of federal law enforcement,
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