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Mayor of Portland to Trump: Get Your Troops Out of the City

Associated Press

   PORTLAND, ORE. - The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President
   Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city
   after some detained people on streets far from federal property they
   were sent to protect.

   "Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,"
   Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a news conference.

   Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said Trump is looking for a confrontation in
   the hopes of winning political points elsewhere. It also serves as a
   distraction from the coronavirus pandemic, which is causing spiking
   numbers of infections in Oregon and the nation.

   Brown's spokesman, Charles Boyle, said Friday that arresting people
   without probable cause is "extraordinarily concerning and a violation
   of their civil liberties and constitutional rights."

   Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said she would file a lawsuit
   in federal court against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the
   Marshals Service, Customs and Border Protection and Federal Protection
   Service alleging they have violated the civil rights of Oregonians by
   detaining them without probable cause. She will also seek a temporary
   restraining order against them.

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