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Originally Posted by Adder
It’s weird. We needed the National Guard, because a sizable chunk of our city was on fire (and the local police couldn’t or wouldn’t) restore enough calm to put them out and prevent the setting of more.
In Portland this federal response seems like it’s about people outside one particular building?? People that the local PD was already roughing up? Nothing about it makes any sense.
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Two buildings, side by side. There have been protests, marches, etc. citywide, mostly peaceful (except some recent action at/around the cop union's building, and those fuckers deserve anything they get). The late night protests initially focused on the Justice Center, which is essentially the county intake jail. The federal courthouse, next door, has been covered in graffiti, most of it variations on FTP and ACAB, since early on. More attention has been focused on it since the fed goons showed up.
To be fair, the fed troops did not come out last night until protesters started tearing plywood off of the building. But once they came out, they showed their usual level of restraint.
