UPDATES on abductions by Feds in Portland, OR.

Folks snatched by Feds in unmarked vans seem to have a common experience. They're taken by un-ID'd men in fatigues, driven around blind and restrained for over an hour, coerced, photo'd, then released. Details+link in thread

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The stories we hear are similar enough to suggest that these abductions are part of a protocol.

After being pressured to waive their rights they are photo'd & released, whereupon they realize they were inside the Justice Center.

These detainments are not arrests.

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Imagine being taken off the street by *unknown* men with guns in an *unmarked* car and driven blind for 90 minutes before opening your eyes in a strange building with more armed men telling you to sign something.

I posit to you that this is textbook terrorism.

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Here is one such story , reported by OPB.

“Feds are driving around, grabbing people off the streets,” O’Shea says in the video. “I didn’t do anything fucking wrong. I’m recording this. I had to let somebody know that this is what happens.”

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

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In addition to this obviously unconstitutional, deliberate intimidation tactic, local police were livestreaming last night, zooming in on and screencapping protestors' faces, then pursuing those people later, away from the demonstration area. Breaking car windows, too.

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Dont let this new wave of outrage give you amnesia: the Feds shot a person in the head just a few nights ago, shattering his face and nearly killing him. PPB closed and raided parks without giving notice & arrested and brutalized a dozen people, among them journalists.

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These Feds are a coalition of nonlocal federal employees including the fucking BORDER PATROL -the dunces of the police caste. They're Trump's occupying force and they're here to hurt people.

Please, America. Tell our story. Portland is just the first town against the wall.

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Damn, did I really get through all that without a typo or some dumbass repetitive phrasing?

*self-high fives*

*realizes self-high-fives are the world's loneliest applause*

*self-high-fives*

To be clear: I haven't heard whether any abductee did or did not or waive their rights, only that they experienced coercion from their kidnappers to do so.

Please remember that I myself am not an accredited journalist. I just hang out with them.

Seriously, though, I aggregate and re-present information from a lot of local sources. People talk to me. I fact-check, but you should still fact-check everything I say.

Truth is vital.