Swept up in the federal response to Portland protests: ‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’

[JustAGuy1]

PORTLAND, Ore. — The protest outside Portland’s federal courthouse had died down by 3:40 a.m. on July 29, when a green laser shined down from a seventh-floor balcony used as a lookout by federal agents.

The laser landed on John Hacker, an activist and citizen-journalist standing in a park about 170 feet away. It skittered across Hacker’s feet, head and torso for more than 45 seconds. Suddenly, an unmarked van pulled in front of him. Doors slid open. Heavily armed men in camouflage tactical gear surrounded Hacker and took him into custody.

Hacker, 36, is among nearly two dozen people arrested but not charged during the Trump administration’s five-week response, from July through early August, to the demonstrations against police brutality in Portland. Before letting Hacker go, federal agents collected a DNA swab, photographed him and confiscated a phone that has not been returned, he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/investigations/portland-protesters-federal-response-trump/

Poor baby

 

[Correll]

I am sorry to hear that he was not charged and then released. I am hopefully they are investigating everyone he called, as a national security threat.

 

[whitehall]

Oh dear they confiscated his phone. Bill Clinton's feds used tanks and poison gas to kill about 80 men women and children at Waco and there wasn't a peep of outrage.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’

Released about 10 minutes later. Scary!!!

 

[Rambunctious]

First of all....this practice of people claiming to be journalist because the have a camera built into their phone and use white out to paint press on their shirts.....should be grounds for arrest....

 

[Obiwan]

‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’

Released about 10 minutes later. Scary!!!

They should have recorded the arrest, and put it on YouTube....

Then he could have been seen over and over....

 

[Cecilie1200]

‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’

Released about 10 minutes later. Scary!!!

I'm guessing that's far from the only thing this Mensa member doesn't know.

 

[badger2]

"Then he could be seen over and over." The reiteration, the pornography!

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