There’s almost too much news to keep up with today, but I didn’t want this to fly under the radar:
Seattle man hospitalized after protesting in Portland sues Trump, Homeland Security secretary
www.seattletimes.com/...
Jeff Paul of Seattle claims that,
. . . he was injured when he stepped between a federal officer who was “shoving and hitting a middle-aged lady with a baton.” He said the woman was holding up peace signs and had not threatened the officers. “I stepped between them in an attempt to help her, though I was careful not to push or grab the officer. In spite of this, he still chose to hit me repeatedly in the arm and chest with a baton, before swinging at my head and cracking me in the eye,”
Some of us are not going to take this lying down:
“This is not ok. I’m not the only person who has been injured, and I won’t be the last,‘‘ Paul wrote. “Our government is choosing to harm it’s (sic) citizens to protect buildings and statues. We must stand against this injustice. The government is meant to serve the people, not oppress them.”
(my emphasis)
This is just one of the first drops in the gathering thunderstorm of resistance to the deployment of Trump’s Gestapo in a shameless attempt to provoke a political war and make a futile attempt to bolster his foundering campaign.
N.B., I also heard on NPR about an hour ago that Maria Cantwell and Parry Murray have already introduced legislation to stop Trump:
Democratic U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell announced Tuesday that they are co-sponsoring the Preventing Authoritarian Policing Tactics on America’s Streets Act, which would restrict the Trump administration’s ability to conduct federal law enforcement against Americans.
www.covingtonreporter.com/...
h/t Bleeding Blue for the link!