The Portland Protests, Trump Administration and Federal Authority
Posted on AllSides July 20th, 2020
From The Center
ANALYSIS
The presence of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security in Portland, Ore., has generated complaints from citizens, local officials and even other federal law-enforcement personnel—raising questions about the legality of the deployment.
Those personnel have been deployed to Portland in response to weeks of nationwide unrest after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Federal agents were also sent to Washington, D.C., and Seattle.
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