{"id":15334,"date":"2020-07-22T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=15334"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:47:34","slug":"portland-protests-grow-despite-violent-crackdown-from-militarized-federal-agents-local-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/portland-protests-grow-despite-violent-crackdown-from-militarized-federal-agents-local-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Protests Grow Despite Violent Crackdown from Militarized Federal Agents &#038; Local Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2020\/7\/21\/portland_protests_federal_response\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>July 21, 2020 (democracynow.org)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavily armed federal officers without name tags have carried out nightly attacks on antiracist demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, and snatched people off the streets into unmarked vans, sparking widespread outrage. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen is a continuous escalation in violence against our protesters,\u201d says Lilith Sinclair, an Afro-Indigenous local organizer in Portland. They note the federal violence follows many years of \u201csevere police brutality\u201d from local police. \u201cIt\u2019s left the people of Portland not only worried about their safety, but, even more so, justified in the fight that we\u2019re engaged in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2020 (democracynow.org) Heavily armed federal officers without name tags have carried out nightly attacks on antiracist demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, and snatched people off the streets into unmarked vans, sparking widespread outrage. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen is a continuous escalation in violence against our protesters,\u201d says Lilith Sinclair, an&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/portland-protests-grow-despite-violent-crackdown-from-militarized-federal-agents-local-police\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15335,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions\/15335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}