The government sent violent federal agents to Portland in an apparent effort to stop the city's Black Lives Matter protests
The mysterious soldiers went unidentified at first, as they bore no forms of identification, though BBC News nowthat they are federal agents sent from the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, Customs and Border Protection, and the Federal Protection Service.
Various figureheads from the Trump administration have attempted to explain away these horrific examples of violent state suppression by recasting the protesters as a “violent mob,” to quote Homeland Security Sec. Chad Wolf, that has forced the federal government to act through their wanton destruction of property.“We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it,” the President said Sunday morning, per CNN. “Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators.
And in a statement to CNN, Customs and Border Patrol said: “Violent anarchists have organized events in Portland over the last several weeks with willful intent to damage and destroy federal property, as well as, injure federal officers and agents.”In both of these statements, we see a willful misuse of the word “violent” to describe people who have damaged property—a deceptive rhetorical tactic that is then used to justify agents of the state commitingpeople.
Many news outlets are now parroting the Trump administration’s deceptive framing of the violence in Portland.
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