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Are LEOs not also required to state the supposed offense that the detained person is charged with?

6601

Can you show me where you saw that?

6602

Socialist anarchy!

6603

Not sure what you guys are looking at. I can clearly see the protester that was killed pointing his rifle at the guy in the car, threatening his life. In the video you can read his lips - “I’m going to shoot you because I’m Antifa, then track down your family.” I don’t think the guy in the car had any choice at that point.

EDIT - was going to draw a circle around the rifle (you can even see the safety is off) but forgot. Seems rather obvious though, so no need to reupload.

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6604

Got him!

6605

I liked the lip-reading and the gun safety touches. ;-)

6606

I think these details will be clearer for the rest of you once Delho posts their own photos of the event.

enhance

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Many around the world were shocked when Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that federal agents wearing camouflage were driving around in unmarked vehicles, snatching up protesters and speeding away. That description sounded all too familiar. We’ve spent much of the last five years reporting on the Baltimore police department. In reporting our new book, I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad, we found that police units in unmarked cars have long used terror and confusion to destabilize communities. […] Police departments officially call it “proactive policing”. Chad Wolf, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, recently used similar language on Fox News to describe what is happening in Portland. […] Yet the police themselves are rarely held accountable. “Proactive policing” is, at its core, unconstitutional. These practices presume people guilty and ignore constitutional protections.

[…] In Portland, we are seeing the federal version of “proactive policing” sow confusion and chaos – and Trump is betting on the turmoil. Unaccountable police, whether in plainclothes or uniforms, create chaos, which allows authoritarian leaders to argue that we need more police power, the very thing that people in Portland – and across the country – are protesting against. Trump’s federal police simply expand the definition of who is “beneath the law” so that it encompasses white, middle-class protesters as well as Black and brown people. Now, he’s threatening to send the same shock troops to more cities. But our cities do not need more jump-out boys. They’re teeming with them already, and they’ve already contributed enough chaos and violence.

6609

In college, a popular football activities was to pelt the opposing band with water balloons, using some rather impressive launchers. Extra points were scored if you got water balloon down the tuba. USC, and UCLA bands as Cal’s rivals took the brunt of the attacks. I gave Stanford, grudging respect for bringing out the lacrosse team to protect the band and the same time toss the water balloon back at the Cal fans.

6610

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that they are just taking and honing existing methods.

Defund the police makes more sense every day. US PDs really need to be torn down and rebuilt from the bottom - don’t see how you get rid of the rot otherwise.

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6612

Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest them on offenses as minor as “failing to obey” an order to get off a sidewalk on federal property — and then tell them they can’t protest anymore as a condition for release from jail.

Legal experts describe the move as a blatant violation of the constitutional right to free assembly, but at least 12 protesters arrested in recent weeks have been specifically barred from attending protests or demonstrations as they await trials on federal misdemeanor charges.

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“If a journalist or legal observer is incidentally exposed to crowd-control devices after remaining in the area, you will not [be] held liable,” the DHS document states [emphasis in original]. “Incidentally means that the journalists or legal observers, while not the target of the crowd-control devices, still end up being exposed to the crowd-control devices because of where they are located.”

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Incidental locations: The Entire City of Portland

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6616

Depends on the state, but generally they aren’t required.

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6618

I’m just always so sad at how shitty this country is compared to Denmark. We could make life so much better if we listened and followed the advice of the good people there. But noooooooo, we have to make life miserable, destitute, and full of stupid.

6619

I’m not sure where to post this, but I’m listening to Barack Obama’s eulogy to John Lewis and moved to tears. Lewis story is amazing, but when told by a speaker of Obama’s caliber it is mesmerizing.