Officers from the U.S. Marshal’s Special Operations group have also been dispatched to Portland to quell the violence. Addressing the federal officers’ deployment in Portland, Hardesty was accusatory. “We do not need or want [the federal officer’s] help,” Wheeler said. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government,” Brown said. Could the protests in Portland, and the federal government's unconventional approach to interceding, spark an open outbreak in hostilities in Portland or elsewhere?

Source: Forbes July 17, 2020 22:15 UTC