A judge has barred federal law enforcement officers dealing with protests and unrest in Portland from using force against journalists.
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He said it was unrealistic and impractical to require law enforcement to differentiate, especially during nighttime protests, between unruly demonstrators and journalists or legal observers. A lawyer for the city, Denis Vannier, said that there had been “occasional challenges” identifying journalists but that the injunction had proven workable. Although the city is a defendant in the case, Vannier took the unusual stance of encouraging the judge to expand the injunction to cover federal officials.
“Perhaps the elephant in the room is the fact that the president has stated publicly that … the reasons for the deployment are political,” Vannier said. “He has announced his intentions to send similar task forces to other cities throughout the United States that happen to be cities that lean politically Democratic or are politically liberal in some way.”
“At some point, we’re going to have to do something much stronger than being invited in,” the president said, without offering further details.
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