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Civil Liberties

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,297 posts) Mon Jul 20, 2020, 06:27 AM Jul 2020

These high school journalists are documenting what's happening in Portland @Clypian

There’s very good reporting tonight on federal officers sent into Portland with no civilian crowd control training. But it’s wrong to see this as evidence of incompetence or disorganization. That is precisely the point. They’re using agencies which use a lot of violence and ...