{"id":44564,"date":"2020-07-17T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44564"},"modified":"2020-07-18T08:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:47:59","slug":"oregon-public-broadcasting-federal-law-enforcement-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-off-portland-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44564","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OPB: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters\/\">Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets<\/a> by Jonathan Levinson &amp; Conrad Wilson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O\u2019Shea decided to head&nbsp;home.<\/p><p>It had been a calm night compared to most protesting downtown. By 2 a.m. law enforcement hadn\u2019t used any tear gas and, with only a few exceptions, both the Portland Police Bureau and federal law enforcement officers had stayed out of&nbsp;sight.<\/p><p>A block west of Chapman Square, Pettibone and O\u2019Shea bumped into a group of people who warned them that people in camouflage were driving around the area in unmarked minivans grabbing people off the&nbsp;street.<\/p><p>\u201cSo that was terrifying to hear,\u201d Pettibone&nbsp;said.<br \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/17\/us\/portland-protests.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Federal Agents Unleash Militarized Crackdown on Portland<\/a> by Sergio Olmos, Mike Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs (\u201cFederal authorities said they would bring order to Portland, Ore., after weeks of protests there. Local leaders believe the federal presence is making things worse.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPB: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets by Jonathan Levinson &amp; Conrad Wilson:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44570,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44564\/revisions\/44570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}