But interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity.
This is the bigger issue. They are using the grey areas around detainments (mainly length of time before charges are required) at a time when people are already protesting police tactics. I have a feeling that there will be lawsuits over the legality of these detainments and those lawsuits will probably be combined to go all the way to the Supreme Court. If it reaches the current panel of Justices it may not end well for Trump's administration.
Sadly many people, especially among those who claim they support civil liberties and display the Gadsden Flag, are cheering these tactics instead of condemning them.
at a time when people are already protesting police tactics.
The truncheon and riot shield are far less oppressive, but police are now being denied that one.
Sadly many people, especially among those who claim they support civil liberties and display the Gadsden Flag, are cheering these tactics instead of condemning them.
It's not ideal, but the Gadsden crowd recognize that BLM is a far bigger threat to civil liberties than the police could ever be.
than the police could ever be.
BLM is a bigger threat at the moment but the police have the state behind them so definitely have far more capability to be a threat to civil liberties
Not sure how BLM is a bigger threat to civil liberties when historically the biggest threat has always been governments. The Founding Fathers understood that so they tried to limit the federal government's ability to infringe on them by creating the Constitution.
They try burning down a courthouse every night for six weeks straight, and have the audacity to whine that now they're being arrested.