Chad Wolf, administrator of the Department of Homeland Security, doubled down on the need for federal agents’ presence in Portland on Tuesday, criticizing Portland police for doing nothing and forcefully rebuking local officials. (1/6)
Far from tamping down the unrest, however, the presence of federal agents — particularly allegations they have whisked people away in unmarked cars without probable cause — has given new momentum and a renewed focus to protests that had begun to devolve into smaller crowds. (2/6)
The use of federal agents against the will of local officials has also set up the potential for a constitutional crisis — and one that could escalate if Trump sends federal agents elsewhere, as he says he plans to do. (3/6)
Federal authorities acknowledged for the first time that they had picked up at least one protester in a van because of concerns he was in the vicinity of people using lasers against federal agents. (4/6)
Wolf deferred questions about a U.S. Navy veteran who was hit with a baton to the U.S. Department of Justice. (5/6)
Wolf also claimed, contrary to earlier reporting by the New York Times, that the federal agents in Portland were “highly trained.”
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