This is MIKE Baker, a correspondent for the New York Times face in the northwest two, a dot m right now, I'm in downtown Portland, watching through some clouds of tear gas, is a group of protesters right now, if you have the tear gas I am watching here through clouds your gas group of protesters moving down main street. They get their umbrellas out to protect themselves and just down the street line a federal officers, their fire into your gas down at the crowd.

The officers were standing in a long line down the city block, protecting federal court house from New York Times? I'm likeable borrow? This is a daily today inside the volatile situation in Portland Oregon and why federal forces are beamed void to american Citys it's Thursday July. Twenty third. This woman can or young you covered the Department of Homeland Security for the times the entire universe of federal law enforcement. So when it is the story of what's happening right now in Portland, where does it start

so I think we have to go back to late may late. May we, as we know there, were protest sweeping throughout the country mass demonstrations. A majority of those protests involved. People who were demonstrating peacefully, but you did also have instances of people damaging property looting as well as acts of violence and in Oakland you had a situation where an officer with the federal protective service in arm of the Department of Homeland Security, whose guarding of federal court House was actually shot and killed. I should say that the person who shot and killed him was actually affiliated with a fringe antigovernment movement and wasn't affiliated with the protest, but that killing did prompt good afternoon. A rare press conference department of Homeland Security is highest. Priority is to ensure the safety and security.

American people in the departments workforce from the top senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security, any loss in the day, just family impacts all of us, and I want the love ones of these brave officers, to know that you have the support of the department behind you. They go out there.

And, of course they honour the memory of this officer, but they also have a message. There are currently threats by some to attack police stations and federal buildings that violence not only won't be tolerated. We are also committed to ensuring that it won't succeed anywhere anywhere and let me be clear: they make it clear that they are going to take action against anybody that makes a threat or has any sort of action against federal property. The acting deputy secretary kind of cool Tonelli even says that is an act of domestic terrorism that would be an act of domestic terrorism,

thank you very much, and why is that free, significant domestic terrorism? The reason why this is significant is you have to remember how this department was created in the wake of the September eleventh attacks. This department was formed in the Bush administration. To have a coordinated effort.

The federal government to defend the United States against national security threats directly. At that time, foreign terrorism threaten. This was a department that was going to protect the borders of the United States in this signalled that the top officials in that department or turning their attention inward domestically to these protests that are sweeping major cities. So what happens after this news conference which, from what you're describing feels like more of a statement than a set of actions right? I think at that point it's a message that messages were not going to tolerate this right and clear, but then things start to move pretty fast within two is on June. First, we start to see that the department is going to back up this rhetoric with the concrete action of federal resources. I remember early in the day. You know I got a message from a source who sent me an alert that all homeland security invite

the geisha special agent for round the Washington DC area got, and it said you have to be on stand by for any potential unrest. Later today around the area of Latvia Park. So that day you know later on. That's where you saw the images of sea service d, a national guard, customs and border protection, immigration in customs enforcement as well, and, of course, it was many of those same federal officials and agents who were stationed outside of lava park and would clear out protesters to make room for the present Photoshop, so now seeing the message delivered that conference put into action on the streets, Washington,

that's right, and I mean, if you listen to the senior officials with the Department of Homeland Security, as well as other officials and the Trump administration they would say. Look this federal presence was needed in washing. Our agents in front of the White House were being threatened and they would also say will look after about a week the unrest calm down to verify active as controversial. Some of these actions were, and intimidating and unusual as it felt on the ground. This was work. That's right! That's right! It worked their deployment work if you were to ask them. So what happens? Next? Ok, so over the next few weeks, what really happened, as we saw, shift Hence stand off with police, as protesters tried to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson, now we're starting to see protesters and demonstrators honing in focusing

and statues and memorials redressing white supremacy. Finally- and this is something that we grow- and it has been so normalized that the people on our money would have me Tom reading those statues and memorials sometimes them down, sometimes defacing them, and you also saw a pretty prompt reaction by the federal government. Bad people love our gut I take it down so in late June I will have an executive order very shortly. The president, then signs and executive order, the gist of it pretty much

says that the attorney general, as well as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, should direct their resources to defend statues and monuments and federal proper. Even just a couple days later. The Department of Homeland Security then forms a taskforce, what's known as these rapid deployment teams, those teams involve two thousand officers and agents that around standby from air marshals, with the tea I say to tactical agents, with customs and border protection, to special agents, with ice ready on standby, to be deployed throughout the. U S And how unusual is this kind of rapid deployment that you're you're describing? Well, I'm actually the department when it was formed and many former you know, officials with the department would say this as well that flexibility to be able to move different officials around is an advance

right it was actually an intention as well to be able to have these different agencies support one another, but it's the mission here, deploying them for monuments and statues. You know the appearance of these teams in front of the National Mall and gettysburg gum. That's where many observers, as well as some of the architects of the department raised in eyebrow at this, why this country is grappling with a couple different national emergencies right now, the Department of Homeland Security also has a huge stake in the response to the pandemic. We have an election coming up as well. The department is the aid to see tasked with cyber security so that it was a question over priorities but further department. It really comes down to this or any of these people in these crowds committing the federal crime of defeat,

sing federal property. The adding secretary has said that he sees it as his job to deploy if there is any mere violation of that federal law, whether it be graffiti on property or some of the more violent acts that we ve seen in these demonstrations.

And it's that rationale that the department used. You know that we get the weekend of July. Fourth to start applying these teams to different cities, but primarily to Portland we'll be right back America's biopharmaceutical companies have one very important thing in common: a common:

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mass peaceful demonstrations, thousands of people on the streets powerful images you're in Portland of crowds covering the entire Burnside Bridge over the will and river. You know in honour of George Floyd and at the same you got what we sign a lot of cities, windows battered eighty everywhere smashing window. Businesses how right for the nightly community Thor Starbucks got hit the first night thus they broke into the justice Centre, left fires, but what's wrong, Indifferent here is the persistence of it. Now more than fifty consecutive days into the protest happening every night, while fifty days take non stop

nonstop every night and would have these nightly confrontations in Portland? Look like you know, it's it's all over the place. You know in some of these cup tations, many of which you can see it videos online, you know you can see these standoffs between protesters imp. He's work near some protesters, I'll throw water bottles are or fireworks videos. Breaking windows. Buildings, downtown or setting up barricades in the streets claim they ve had bricks thrown at them

thrown at them. They ve been videos surfacing on line of people, shooting guns in the air. One group set a fire in the headquarters of the police Union, the local police union, and for how much This time they made it their nightly routine, to gather downtown right next to the federal court house. Please, This is a civil disturbance and we have declared unlawful assembly leave the area now or you'll be suffered to use of force to include crowd. Control me police kept coming arresting a number of people and responding with someone

tear gas that somebody's protesters went to court sued in one a judge's order limiting how much this gasket boost never seen or covered anything like that. The damage and the impact in the payment being made is unprecedented. It's crazy it if they a persistent issue that they haven't really been able to resolve and who aren't people who were involved in these nightly encounters. As that, you can tell it's a group with a you know, a wide range of back. Grounds, ideologies strategies, tactics that they ve brought. Portland has a history of anarchists groups, and you can see some of the anarchist symbols on this It's you know it. You see a lot of people wearing all black clothing, which is pretty common for those who are part of the anti fraud. Group and then you have people- were part of the black lives matter movement?

changing the name of George Floyd, and just just, and so you do. You really have this huge mix might in your time in Port- and I imagine you're talking to people in the city about this ongoing problem. What are people you ve talked to important saying about the situation that I mean. That seems like a pretty broad consensus of people who sympathise with the overall, message of the protesters, the need for police reform and the need for resolving racial injustices. At the same time, those same people are frustrated by what seems like a line of protest at once seemed to end businesspeople. I talk to rule we have had their. It knows boarded up and in short mither hours for safety reasons, and one of em actors considering like maybe assign just get out of here, because there doesn't seem to be a resolution I had we are physically,

an emotionally in pain. I have officers that are injured from police surgery. You hear them saying essentially they're out of ideas. We love community. We want to serve our community and facilitate free speech, saying that there exists stood in pain and they're, trying to show that there part of the community to that they aren't some sort of looked outside force that here we are at a loss for other solutions. Right now, I I'm open to any community member who's got ideas or other solutions we So I have a sense of this microwave wrong that the police don't quite know how to resolve these nightly encounters and These now encounters are still happening, and so is there some sensor resignation that this is just how it is going to be for a while there's, certainly no deadline that was going to be coming up. There there's a hope that, things were on a better track that the numbers that were coming out each night were starting to to shrink a little bit in that

the Might Vienna on a pathway to two finishing this, and that's when deplore, And a federal officers arrived in town, so what funds, when those federal officials start showing up and at the direction of the reform of home, journey while I'm in right away. You can see that their stance out emanate. They ve shown up here in camouflage flies fatigues in and tactical gear, so judges visually, it's pretty clear that there's no side force that has now arrived and they ve come with a pretty aggressive posture, and what are these aggressive tactics from the federal forces there look like Will someone just a year when the industry, you can see that a return to a large amount of tear gas, because these federal officers

we're not under the same mandates as local police. But then there were so tat too, so you could see coming out in front videos in the first one. You have this protesters standing across the street the federal court houses of his he's. Gotta Boombox where his head in Egypt cursing at the officers across the street I will send you seem dropped to the ground. Is apparently been shot with some sort of less he munition and a really just created up a bloody see right there on the street, blood all over the sidewalk and his family says he's gonna hospital for more than a week in these

videos. You have these protesters. What is going on the street the Portland and federal officers again in camouflaging tactical gear approaching granting them and imposing them back to us. Our demands? You just violence Their rights filled with sir officers intact, clear. What are you doing and what is the response to these videos? I mean you ve gotta outrage from not just the protesters but from the same city officials that have been the target of the protesters all along the tactics that the Trump Administration or using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent. People are being literally scooped up the street into unmarked Vance Ral cars. Apparently the mayor has been

villain number one for a lot of these protesters. As someone who has failed to reform the police department in the ways they want and at here. You have him, it's not helping the situation at all there not wanted here. We haven't asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave ass, the federal officers to leave his city that he doesn't want them here. He doesn't want them on the streets and what they're doing is they are sharply escalating. The situation, their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism and you have to cycle here, of tear gas things being thrown back and forth stand, Swear protesters are holding umbrella, then shields made out of Noodles imply would end the office

standing on the other side in their full tactical gear in helmet Some gas masks in a scene of two sides: and not much of pathway, to a resolution in the space between So as of now, just like the very thing that federal government is in Portland to try to tempt Dan is actually escalating. In response, I mean it's been a significant escalation. Let me now we're seeing thousands of people out there, yet the people out there come out for the first time at the end you're automation may have been in my life and said I do anything better caught up with this

grandmother from Eugene or again, who is there and had come up to Portland for the first time had told her family that she planned to stay on the arts to be safe and then, while she was there, I'm choose motivated to to keep moving up and I caught up with her again and she was right at the front of the federal Court House she's a little uneasy watching this unfold does

necessarily agree with the tactics she's watching but she's staying there. She feels the need that this is a moment to stand up to do something and chinese to be their zeal. Mike bigger said that the federal presence in Poland has basically made things worse, not better, and it has really created a kind of violent feedback loop between the protesters and these federal officers, and I wonder what you think about that. Well, I mean whether you listen to the demonstrators, the local officials there or the senior officials of the Department of Homeland Security at clear. Everyone agrees that the federal presents thus far has not succeeded in terms of bringing an end to the violence that we're seeing the unrest that we're seeing at this time.

So by that measure, the goal has not been accomplished, but there is also a question here. You know for the Trump Administration is that solely their measure of success? Is this solely about bringing an end to this unrest? You know optics do matter and the objects of having agents and camouflage gear and tactical teams in a city led by Democrats. That does send a message no radical live. We mobs agenda take over our cities deep and just a couple days ago, the President's re election campaign actually issued a campaign out and Joe Biden stands with them with images that look a lot like that area around the federal Court House in Portland, displaying images, unrest and individual acts of violence, violent crime

exploding. Innocent children fatally shot. Who will be there to answer the call when your children are safe and at the very end of that had they actually way it out in pretty direct terms tax that red you won't be safe and Joe Biden, America undone Oj Trump, and I approve this message: you're actually seeing the lighthouse candid double down her work Jack, Odin and say well, look they're doing a great job in Portland, in fact, is what New York, energy, drawing and war a war, and all of these Oakland is a mess. We're not going to let this happen in our country.

Run by liberal Democrats. Some of these other cities, led by Democrats, could use the same kind of deployment. This is worse than that gas. By far worse. Anything anyone's ever all run by the same liberal Democrats that would be true for the country. The whole country would go to hell and we're not going to let it go now. Thank you very much so. Where does this leave looks at it? So it leaves us in this precarious position,

We know that on the ground in Portland, the presence of federal agents and those officers as increased tension, but to the president he'd like to see a similar presence in other cities zone. Thank you very much for having me here, On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he would immediately dispatch federal law enforcement officers to Chicago the FBI. Eighty of the EPA U S: Marshall Service and homeland security will together, be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago to help I've down violent crime in Chicago Laurie Lightfoot said

would not tolerate the kind of federal deployment that has played out in Portland. What we saw the president and the attorney General do in Portland. Is travesty and we are not having it in Chicago a few hours later, Portland Mare, TED Wheeler, joint protesters in the streets there he was quickly tear gas by federal agents. He said with out provocation, we'll be right back. Vanguard was founded on the simple, but radical idea that initially company can succeed because it puts investors First Vanguard is, I and owned you on funds and the funds own Vanguard, which means Vanguard, is built to ensure that your interests will be the priority together. Vanguard, thirty million investors are changing the way the world invests, visit, Vanguard, Doc

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