{"id":44676,"date":"2020-07-24T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44676"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:26:49","slug":"wapo-the-federal-police-in-portland-dont-even-understand-what-arrests-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44676","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The federal police in Portland don\u2019t even understand what \u2018arrests\u2019 are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/portland-fourth-amendment-arrests\/2020\/07\/24\/c7e9822c-cceb-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html\">The federal police in Portland don\u2019t even understand what \u2018arrests\u2019 are<\/a> by Prof. By Andrew Manuel Crespo (\u201cThe government cannot lawfully exercise its power of arrest if it doesn\u2019t realize it is, in fact, arresting people in the first place.\u201d):<\/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>This past week, the Department of Homeland Security held a news conference to clear up a few things about the federal paramilitary police force grabbing protesters on the streets of Portland, Ore. If the goal was to reassure everyone that these armor-clad agents were acting lawfully, it did not go well. Instead the conference revealed, with painstaking clarity, a very big problem: The deputy director of President Trump\u2019s new federal police force does not know what the word \u201carrest\u201d means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The federal police in Portland don\u2019t even understand what \u2018arrests\u2019 are by Prof. By Andrew Manuel Crespo (\u201cThe government cannot lawfully exercise its power of arrest if it doesn\u2019t realize it is, in fact, arresting people in the first &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-44676","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\/44676","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=44676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44677,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44676\/revisions\/44677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}