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CBP Sent 3 Paramilitary-Style Units to Crackdown on Protests in Portland
Customs and Border Protection has sent three specially trained, paramilitary-style units to help crackdown on protests Portland.
Customs and Border Protection has sent three specially trained, paramilitary-style units to help crackdown on protests Portland.
The presence of camouflage-clad federal officers in cities like Portland, against the wishes of local and state authorities, threatens to sever the longstanding relationships between federal law enforcement and communities.
Federal agents who were sent to Portland amid unrest were not adequately trained in riot control or mass demonstrations, Homeland Security warned in an internal memo.
White supremacists and other domestic racist groups pose the largest threat of protest-related violence, a new federal intelligence bulletins warns.
The FBI is asking for the public’s help identifying people who are inciting riots at anti-police brutality protests across the country.
Federal authorities became worried in 2014 that black activists who were calling for an end to the police killings of black people would join international terrorist groups such as ISIS.
The FBI surveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters went much further than previously believed as agents tracked the movements of an activist and conducted surveillance of homes and cars of people believed to be tied to rallies in Ferguson, Missouri, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
The U.S. government has been monitoring Black Lives Matter protests because of fears of potential violence, according to newly released documents from the FBI and Homeland Security.