NYT: зарисовки из Портленда

[gracheeha]

PORTLAND, Ore. — After flooding the streets around the federal courthouse in Portland with tear gas during Friday’s early morning hours, dozens of federal officers in camouflage and tactical gear stood in formation around the front of the building.

 

Then, as one protester blared a soundtrack of “The Imperial March” (Star wars) the officers started advancing. Through the acrid haze, they continued to fire flash grenades and welt-inducing marble-size balls filled with caustic chemicals. They moved down Main Street and continued up the hill, where one of the agents announced over a loudspeaker: “This is an unlawful assembly.”

 

By the time the security forces halted their advance, the federal courthouse they had been sent to protect was out of sight — two blocks behind them.

 

The aggressive incursion of federal officers into Portland has been stretching the legal limits of federal law enforcement, as agents with batons and riot gear range deep into the streets of a city whose leadership has made it clear they are not welcome.

 

“I think it’s absolutely improper,” Oregon’s attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, said in an interview on Friday. “It’s absolutely beyond their authority.”

 

(Дальше в статье рассказывается кто что сказал и кто кого как обозвал.)

 

Jennifer Kristiansen, a family-law attorney, was one of many women who came out to the protests in recent days to join a “Wall of Moms” — hundreds of mothers who have worn yellow shirts and linked arms to challenge the presence of the federal agents. In the early morning hours on Tuesday, she said, as agents were clearing protesters from in front of the courthouse, one of them reported to another that Ms. Kristiansen had struck him.

 

Ms. Kristiansen said that she had done no such thing and that one of the officers ended up assaulting her, groping her chest and backside during the arrest.

 

“This is not creeping authoritarianism,” Ms. Kristiansen said. “The authoritarianism is here.”

www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/portland-federal-legal-jurisdiction-courts.html

Comments

[kostyad]

спасибо .про это впервые прочитал на би-би-си 22 июля 2020

[juan_gandhi]

О блин. Вот это да.

[math_mommy]

Сходила на Фоксньюс, ожидая увидить возмущение нападением правительтсва на гражданские свободы, хотя бы для приличия. Все-таки их вечный конек. Увы, все забыто. Я, конечно, понимаю, что и раньше в этом свободолюбии было много лицемерия, но зачем так откровенно-то.

[gracheeha]

И особенно на права штатов в федерации! "Я сидера и морчара, будто дело не моё". Даже WSJ, на которого я подписана. Впрочем, та же история о государственном долге и дефеците бюджета. Всё это имеет значение пока президент - демократ, а когда в Белом Доме республиканец, они начинают транжирить налево и направо.

К сожалению, деградация Республиканской партии привела к деградации политического уровня и, естественно, к деградации Демократической партии тоже. В итоге, мы оказались в глубоком политическом кризисе, что уже осознали и ряд республиканцев.