'I don't know who they are still. I don't even know what agency they are from.' Navy veteran describes 'absolutely shocking' clash with federal officers during Portland demonstration: 'I wasn't a human being to them...I was a target.'
against law enforcement brutality have ignited concerns of whether federal agents overstepped their jurisdiction.
Federal officers, left, and a protester carrying the American flag face off in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 21, 2020 in Portland, Ore. Morgan said he encouraged removing names from uniforms -- a standard for most CBP agents -- after 38 officers had their information published online recently.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf rejected the idea that officers weren't fully prepared while acknowledging to reporters on Tuesday that he hadn't seen the memo. "These officers are not stormtroopers," Wolf said."They're not the Gestapo, as some have described them. That description is offensive and hyperbolic, and it's dishonest.Billy J. Williams, the U.S. attorney in the District of Oregon, on Friday called for an oversight investigation into the federal deployments. He was joined in the call for oversight by Democrats in Congress, who accused the administration of perpetrating violence.
A protester holds his hands in the air while walking past a group of federal officers during a protest in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 21, 2020 in Portland, Ore.Growing tension between federal and local authorities boiled over in the past week with a public feud on Twitter between Portland's mayor and a top homeland security official. Amid the squabble, local officials decided to exclude homeland security personnel from the local emergency operations center.
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