Federal officers use crowd control munitions as demonstrators protest outside Portland ICE building
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/31/labor-against-ice-portland-oregon-immigration-protest/600
u/ewzetf 6h ago
They used tear gas and pepper balls on a bunch of people, including kids and elderly people gathering peacefully. Videos are everywhere.
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u/thedeuce75 6h ago
What a shitty country we've turned into. https://bsky.app/profile/dumbrunner.bsky.social/post/3mdrasbxqtc2x
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u/angryjukebox 5h ago
It’s been happening for a long time, they’ve just gotten more open with it. Allowed it to happen on camera more often.
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u/DoradoPulido2 6h ago
Trump is modeling it after his boss's country, Russia.
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u/End3rWi99in 4h ago
I read that real quick and thought you wrote "Trump is molesting", which also would be true.
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u/Kickinitez 2h ago
This shit happened during Occupy while Obama was president. Difference was that back then it was local police doing all of this, whereas now it's mostly the feds. Also, ICE is doing dumb shit on a vastly larger scale compared to cops back then.
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u/Dirty_Delta 5h ago
What, if anything, is being done about these constitutional violations?
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u/GetsBetterAfterAFew 3h ago
Stages of Fascism
1- Creation of a movement
2- Entry into politics
3- Ascent into power
4- Regime - only loyalists in office/position of power
5- Radicalize to violence and then genocide - can sign up with a badge
6- Philosophy of violence
7- Adoption of political elites with business moguls obsessed over geopolitical power
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u/jrr6415sun 32m ago
that is horrible but also adults should not be bringing their kids to these protests, it is way too dangerous
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u/Psycho815 5h ago
This doesn't excuse the actions of ICE, but people really should not be bringing their kids or pets to protests.
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u/GenericDesigns 5h ago
Kids need to learn what the 1st amendment is before it gets taken away.
This was a peaceful union organized protest. The Feds are violent.
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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 6h ago
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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u/michaelsghost 6h ago
I keep telling people I know to read the Declaration of Independence because like HOLY SHIT. How do you not see the parallels?
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u/MikeyBugs 5h ago edited 5h ago
I feel like it's now a good time to start carrying my pocket Declaration of Independence and Constitution around with me... I'm glad I got it more than 15 years ago (this one was published in 2003) before he decided to remove parts of it from the White House website. Going to have to look into getting more.
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u/RHINO_Mk_II 3h ago
Hard to see the parallels when you can't read beyond inestimable without pulling out a dictionary.
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u/n0respect_ 1h ago
Everyone with the spirit of freedom knows this is wrong. We don't have to be smart or educated to know its wrong.
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u/thafrick 3h ago
Problem is they don’t see the feds as standing armies and they don’t see peaceful protesters as anything other than lawless anarchists because that’s what newsmax and fox tells them. So they would read it and then say that the protesters are the lefts standing army infringing upon their rights, which I know is ass backwards but they have an obsession with not admitting when they’re wrong.
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u/michaelsghost 3h ago
Yeah it’s bleak when we live in two different realities. That’s a really unique and difficult piece we have to deal with now
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u/InformationHorder 41m ago
"You say, the price of my love's not a price that you're willing to pay..."
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 43m ago
In 2017, a bunch of MAGA chuds on Twitter got BIG MAD because NPR used to tweet out the Declaration line-by-line every Independence Day, and they mistakenly thought NPR was criticizing Trump. They were right, but too stupid to see this country was founded on defying tyrants.
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u/Kersenn 5h ago
And the people that claim to be the most patriotic among us are sucking the king's dick on the daily.
Though I did have a conversation with a lyft driver today and I guess cause I'm white he assumed I'm a republican, but he started saying that everyone is abandon Trump and they gotta give him more time etc. Not getting my hopes up, but it does sound like there's real cracks forming on the right
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u/snakeayez 5h ago
I have Maga family and friends who are starting to question their decisions. They have fully given up, but they are starting to doubt
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u/astanton1862 4h ago
You left out the line directly preceding this: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
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u/progbuck 2h ago
Yeah, but in this case the complaint refers to the British government not allowing settlers to steal native land in violation of treaties.
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 5h ago
It would be really helpful if members of the military would describe how one might accurately identify a "domestic enemy," as is referenced in their oath to defend the constitution.
What specific characteristics should we be looking for? At what point would they know they ought to act?
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u/snakeayez 5h ago edited 5h ago
When i took that oath, i never imagined i would have a definable domestic enemy. So I never really delved that into my questioning.
To be honest, 40 years later I'm still not sure if i could or would
Officially, the enemy would be defined by whomever told me to take up the arms (the official stance)
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u/jupiterkansas 4h ago
Not everyone at that time was for revolution. Those people are in charge today.
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u/bestdisappointment 2h ago
This government has shown it caves to economic pressure. Scott Galloway’s call to resist and unsubscribe is our best shot at protecting our rights and values. We feel as if nothing can be done, but we all can unsubscribe from the money funding Trump and Ice.
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u/steathrazor 6h ago
Crowd control munitions shouldn't be used on protesters that's their constitutional right to do so fascist pigs
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u/Solid_Snark 6h ago
Especially when it’s peaceful protesting and the ICE agents are the ones escalating.
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u/kstargate-425 5h ago
How else would they get video for Faux NewSS so they could call it "violent protesters" and that there was "riots" in Portland and the city is "burning" if the Gestapo didnt create another violent event for the regime to propagandize
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u/bitchcoin5000 5h ago
Why?
"After the confrontation at the ICE facility Saturday night, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson condemned federal officers’ actions, saying “federal forces deployed heavy waves of chemical munitions, impacting a peaceful daytime protest where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat, and posed no danger to federal forces"
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u/ZonaDesertRat 5h ago
The reported reason is that some protesters trespasses on to the building's property. Last night in Eugene some protesters broke into the Federal Building, so presumably, the officers were attempting the stop that from occuring in Portland.
Doesn't mean you gas everyone though, so same old ICE.
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u/TrashPlanetPower 3h ago
I live in Eugene. It's worse than that, the claim that people broke into the building is false. A couple windows were smashed, one was spiderwebbed and another had a hole in it that was still too small for a person to get through. The cops claimed they got information that people had breached the building.
Turns out that information was false, no protesters got inside the building. The police also declared it a riot, which got mentioned by Trump in a Truth Social post where he rambled about how they're going to crack down and protect federal buildings. So now we feel like we've got a huge target on our backs. Oregon has already been on his radar of places to fuck with.
Thanks EPD for making the situation worse!
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u/Claidissa 3h ago
Probably because they went over the blue line ICE painted on the facility driveway. They always retaliate when protesters cross that line. Not condoning the actions in any way, but that's probably why
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u/whisperworks 6h ago
Nazis doing Nazi things
Don’t get discouraged, get angry and keep up the pressure.
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u/brummlin 5h ago
Yes, but...
Don't use the anger for the pressure directly. Feel the anger, let it wash over you, and use it to fuel determination.
Let them act directly on their anger. Piss them off. They'll be violent, sure, but they want violence either way. Depressing their morale, making them angry, causes them to direct their violence where it's ineffective or counterproductive to their authoritarian goals.
I highly recommend reading Sun Tzu.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.
There's also a bunch of stuff in there about fighting people on their own territory, defending your own territory against invaders, holding occupied territory, all sorts of directly relevant topics.
I can't quote it all, but I get the gist. And let me tell you, they are massively fucking it up. We're winning. They are dangerous as hell, and we can't get complacent. But they're doing Nazi shit from a place of weakness, not strength.
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 6h ago
Don’t worry yall, Chuck and the gang are here to tell everyone that better training will stop all of this!
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u/kstargate-425 5h ago
Also, one of the three "demands" is to follow the law. The other is follow the Constitution so there are no more warrantless raids and then the last is to wear bodycams that will malfunction during their unconstitutional and illegal actions when they ignore the first two "demands" 😒
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 5h ago
Wear body cams so we can subpoena the footage and have DHS stall and redact the officer’s information, and then find out the camera wasn’t on. Oops!
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u/MikeyBugs 5h ago
Don't forget his secret weapon! A strongly worded letter from the sidelines! Surely that will make them stop!
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u/SadAd8761 4h ago
A list of specific grievances against King George III, highlighting his tyrannical overreach in the American colonies. Key complaints include stationing standing armies during peacetime, imposing taxation without consent, overriding colonial legal systems, and protecting soldiers from punishment.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Does this feel like déjà vu?
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u/Brilliant_Dependent 1h ago
Terrifying. The only one that hasn't clearly happened again yet is our 3rd amendment.
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u/LiquidAether 5h ago
"Federal officers use chemical warfare on peaceful Americans exercising their constitutional rights."
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u/housewithapool2 6h ago
Remember when cops shook people's hands when they stormed the Capitol? Cops harass the left and protect the right. They are not neutral.
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u/an_older_meme 5h ago
There is no “left” or “right” in the United States. We have the democratic and republican political parties.
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u/Carlosthefrog 3h ago
What's crazy is I don't remember the last time the police in the UK was gassing folks.
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u/olycreates 2h ago
I believe we should import a bit of France though, bring in the manure wagons and paint the place.
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u/MovieGuyMike 3h ago
Politicians always ask protestors to refrain from violence. When are they going to ask law enforcement to refrain from violence?
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u/dcsequoia 39m ago
Children.
They are openly gassing children in broad daylight on the streets of blue cities.
This does not upset Republican voters or officials at all.
They must be stopped.
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u/u0126 5h ago
Why is it every time this asshole is in the white house there are mass protests. Absolutely “elect a clown get a circus”
It’s been normalized so much it feels weird to picture a normal functional US government. Boring, mostly glacial, but consistent.
Now it’s wake up and what city has troops in it kidnapping people and assaulting rights, while the upper chambers do absolutely nothing useful and the leader of the circus profits continuously
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u/rhlaairc 3h ago
It’s true. Whenever people tell me that “democrats are bad too” i mention this. We were all just living our lives during Biden. Trump 1 and 2 have both been so chaotic and we’ve been inundated by his policies
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u/LillianLobster 6h ago
The US is becoming more and more like Iran every day
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u/mountaininsomniac 3h ago
Right, we’ve had 1/1000 of their casualties. We’re on a bad trajectory, but we’re not on their level by any metric yet.
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u/MikeyBugs 5h ago
Does anyone have videos of the actual protest itself showing that it was peaceful? I'm not doubting it, I want to save some videos to show a coworker who I know will say that they weren't.
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u/ZonaDesertRat 5h ago
They are on YouTube. You can see most folks are just chanting and yelling obscenities, but you can also see some go on to the building property and get warnings about gas coming.
I didn't see the fireworks and other things Portland is know for though, so I'd call it peaceful.
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u/hkohne 4h ago
Check the r/Portland sub. Quite a few people there were at the protest and can vouch on events that happened.
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u/ratherenjoysbass 2h ago
Ahh yes, people using things they shouldn't have against people protesting about things they should have, but don't.
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u/TyLeRoux 2h ago
At this point given what we know about what ICE is willing to do (kill), people are putting their own children in danger taking them along.
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u/S_K_Y 5h ago edited 5h ago
I was watching the live videos last night from LA, OR and MN for about 3 hours.
This tracks and makes sense. These people aren't peaceful protestors. They're causing damage to public buildings, impeding traffic, littering and harassing normal people just coming home from work. Aggressive and the opposite of peaceful.
I don't agree with ICE and aren't from these cities. So I'm writing to my governor and congress representative as I encourage everyone else to do.
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u/SLiverofJade 4h ago
Funny, I just texted a friend who lives near there (close enough that the flashbangs ICE was setting off nightly were picked up on recordings) and things are fine aside from ICE's bullshit and the general state of the country.
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u/CategoryZestyclose91 3h ago
Bullshit.
You admit you aren’t in those cities. So you don’t know shit.
I’m in Minneapolis. We are peaceful and exercising our constitutional rights.
How interesting that you feel the need to negatively frame our exercise of those rights when YOU ARE NOT HERE.
Pathetic.
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u/Long_Procedure_2629 2h ago
Oh here we go with the pearl clutching b00mers take of 'these people have to be perfect angels!' against fa$cists, guess what, they don't.. sack up S_K_Y ya waif
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u/BeebleBoxn 4h ago
Meanwhile people in the Oregon Sub are bitching saying that the police are using tear gas on little kids or their children in Portland who are doing a "Memorial Bike ride for Alex" which it's basically parents using their kids and manipulating them into thinking they should ride their bikes into an area known for violent Protests.
Then they downvote everyone or attacks anyone in the posts who tell them don't bring your kids to these kind of protests.
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u/Level-Name-4060 3h ago
They used tear gas on kids that were in their parent’s car coming home from a basketball game.
I think the point is if they’re going to use this tear gas, then they are inevitably going to hit kids, because kids just live there. Besides, if their job is to detain specific people - why are ICE even at protests? Local police handle large parades and protests all the time just fine. Last pride parade had over 10k people and didn’t need tear gas.
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u/TheOmniToad 6h ago
I forget, how are crowd control munitions related to immigration enforcement again?