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Vet beaten for challenging federal cops on constitutional violations

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Navy vet challenges federal police in Portland and gets beaten and gassed.
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“I saw on TV men wearing combat fatigues. … abducting people from the streets of Portland, putting them in unmarked vans. … I wanted to speak to these officers. [At the protest] I yelled why are you violating your oath to the constitution? … One pointed a semi-automatic weapon at me. One hit my hand and broke it. … They pepper sprayed me. … I was engulfed in a giant cloud of tear gas. … [the] protests were escalated by the federal government. … I believe. … it was about optics. … Portland is a test case. This is. … gas-lighting because none of us are talking about BLM anymore. We’re talking about an old white dude that got beat up. … we need to bring that conversation back to BLM. Our city has been turned into a war zone intentionally.” (NBC News)
Christopher David served 8 years as a Naval officer.

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  1. We are living in a climate of fear and uncertainty. When vets are accosted and beaten we know that it is bad. This administration deals with strong arm tactic against their own citizens raking part in non-violent protest. Can you only guess what they are doing to people of color and the undocumented. We must stay strong and resist and not strong until Trump is gone and the monuments work that lies ahead.

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