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The Oregon Governor Kate Brown has said federal agents in unmarked cars who apparently detained protesters in Portland of a blatant abuse of power.
The most powerful elected Democrat, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accused the Republican president of deploying “stormtroopers”. “Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti. These are not the actions of a democratic republic,” she tweeted.
Federal officers, deployed by US President Donald Trump, have also fired tear gas and less-lethal munitions into crowds of demonstrators. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf called the protesters a “violent mob”.
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Activists have been protesting against police brutality since George Floyd’s killing in police custody on 25 May.
A report contained detailed accounts of witnesses who had seen federal law enforcement dressed in camouflage emerge from unmarked vehicles, grab protesters without explanation and drive off.
The last week has seen a violent escalation between protesters and federal agents, deployed two weeks ago by Trump to quell civil unrest.
Since at least 14 July, federal agents have been jumping out of unmarked vehicles throughout the city, and grabbing protesters seemingly without cause.
Video checked by the broadcaster shows a protester, Mark Pettibone, describe how on 15 July he was “basically tossed” into a van containing armed people in body armour.
Pettibone said he was taken to a holding cell in a federal courthouse, where he was read his arrest rights. After he declined to answer questions, he was released without any citation or arrest record.
