This professor of criminal law and procedure lays out in appropriate detail why federal forces are in obvious violation of the law. Anyone with a working knowledge of the law of arrest can see it - and condemn it - immediately. cc @thespybrief @LouiseMensch https://twitter.com/AndrewMCrespo/status/1285738003076448262

Here is James Comey - unquestionably an expert in the use of federal police power - explaining why unidentified troops committing crimes in the open undermines confidence in the US justice system. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/21/james-comey-trump-portland-federal-officers/

Here is the Secretary of the OHS admitting that it was federal marshals that attacked Navy Veteran Christopher David and that it is now under OIG investigation for excessive use of force. .

Anyone with the slightest bit of training in law enforcement or the law can readily observe that the attack on Christopher David was unlawful use of force. AND I AM THE (SECOND TO) LAST GUY TO MAKE ANY CONCLUSION based on 15 seconds of video. https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1285753317977710592?s=20

The Founders told us that it was lawful: 1A "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Here is the Secretary of the DOD saying that umarked, unidentified cosplaying as US Military and conducting illegal law enforcement against US citizens is bad for the DOD. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-07-21/pentagon-troubled-by-overly-militarized-federal-agents-in-portland

THIS IS NOT LIBERAL DRIVEL. We have the rule of law, or not. We have identified law enforcement operating within their jurisdiction, or not. We have the right to protest and to be free from arrest without probable cause, or not. COPS ARE NOT LICENSED TO BEAT US, or not.

Dirk out.

OK, one more thing. Even I could arrest these a-holes. Attacking protesters is just fanning the flames on purpose. https://twitter.com/DirkSchwenk/status/1285769027026071557?s=20