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@Due Dissidence
We'll push Biden left, they said
Source: https://twitter.com/DueDissidence/status/1786562178977267758
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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Presidents have power, but not when it comes to state and local police, that's by design.
When Portland was turned upside down by 100+ days of protests in 2020, we were VERY pissed at Teargas Ted (Mayor Wheeler). That was HIS fault, not Trumps, with one very, very narrow exception:
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
(making things worse - "Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf was in Portland during the day." it turned out, Wolf had been acting illegally - https://www.theverge.com/c/23172433/chad-wolf-homeland-secretary-illegal-tenure-dhs)
Things only calmed down when Governor Kate Brown sent in the State Police.