>> Unidentified federal soldiers, unmarked
soldiers are running rampant throughout the
Pacific Northwest. And recently they have
been caught on videotape basically accosting
protesters and regular citizens. Here's a
clip of them bringing a protester into an
unmarked van. It's scary and disturbing.
>> What are you doing? Use your words.
What are you doing? Use your words. What are
you doing?
>> I haven't done anything wrong.
>> Use your words.
>> I haven't done anything wrong. What's going
on?
>> What is going on?
>> We need to know.
>> Who are you?
>> Where are you taking him?
>> We'll get you out. What's your name? Tell
us your name.
>> What's your name?
>> Okay, you're fine, we'll get you out.
>> Bro, what?
>> We got you, friend.
>> We got you, NLT.
>> You just violated their rights.
>> Kidnapping people.
>> You just violated their rights.
>> Thanks for keeping up.
>> Aren't we supposed to know who you are?
How are we supposed to know you're not kidnapping
us and you're civilians kidnapping us?
>> Yeah, echoes of Eric Prince type soldiers
there, where there's no accountability. Federal
officials are saying that they're there to
combat that quote, violent mayhem.
I didn't really see any violence there and
listen to whether or not an anonymous senior
official said about these forces. Once we
surge federal law enforcement officers to
Portland, the agitators quickly got the message.
So that's just is fascist talk and they're
enabled by the president who very infamously
gas peaceful protesters for a photo op.
And has repeatedly hinted that he would like
to do away with an aspect of the First Amendment
that protects peaceful protests, and send
the military on to protest, protesters, unconstitutional.
And one of the most terrifying things that
he could possibly do, and some of it and on
a micro level we're seeing there, Cenk.
>> Yeah, so there's a couple of disastrous
elements of this. First, as I was watching
the tape, I actually remembered that, I was
a person who had a forced arrest like that
happen to me. And it was unmarked police in
my case that arrested us and whisked us away.
And that's really scary, when they don't identify
themselves and there's no badge. So I'll tell
that story in the post game for our members
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to post game.
But let's stick with the important stuff here
in terms of facts on the ground of Portland
in Seattle. They've sent in half a dozen federal
apparently departments have sent in their
guys and that van you saw, it's a rented vans.
So it's unmarked, you don't know necessarily
which department they're with.
One of the apartments they're using is in
charge of or his office station at the US
Mexico border, which makes sense because the
Department of Homeland Security is sending
these guys in. It does not make sense because
I'm pretty sure Portland is nowhere near the
US Mexico border.
That unit apparently has also been in Iraq
and Afghanistan. I honestly don't know if
that's the unit you're looking at in the video
because there's half a dozen units and they
don't tell you who they are. So now here's
a giant problem number two. They're not working
with state local officials.
So what if there's a situation where the local
cops don't agree with unmarked federal officers.
I mean, if you're a local cop, you don't even
know that they're necessarily federal officers.
I mean, they got nice camouflage outfits like
they're in Kandahar. Portland, there's a lot
of things but it ain't Kandahar.
>> Well, Cenk, I thought Trump was a states
rights conservative and I thought he loved
cops. Why is he trampling on the authority
of police officers in local areas? I don't
understand.
>> No, but Emma, that's right, and it could
be really scary. Portland's mayor's like I
don't know who these guys are and we're not
coordinating so I don't know what they're
doing in our streets.
So is it conceivable that the police and whatever
those guys are drawing each other? It's possible.
Look, in my story, it was undercover cops,
who did not carry badges. So what if they're
undercover cops, or these guys don't come
into full camouflage outfit? Are all six departments
coming in camouflage like this?
I don't know, and there's a lot of local yokels
who have camouflage outfits like this. This
is a recipe for disaster even if it wasn't
fascist. But yes, it is fascist to grab people
off the streets without identifying who you
are, and identifying why you're taking them.
That's what third world countries do with
tin pot dictators.
>> And we become so used to this level of
militarism, that this story isn't even getting
the attention that it should. Cenk mentioned
that the Portland Police Chief is frustrated
with the situation, I would be if I were him.
I don't have the authority to order federal
officers, excuse me, to do things.
It does complicate things for us said Chief
Chris Davis of the Portland Police Department.
And who these police officers are no one knows,
among the federal forces deployed in Portland
are members of an elite Border Patrol tactical
team. A special operations unit that is based
on the US Mexico border and has been deployed
overseas, including to Iraq and Afghanistan.
BORTAC members, identifiable by patches on
their camouflage sleeves, are mixed in with
Federal Protective Service officers outside
the courthouse. So yeah, there's DHS task
force cops in here, we think, but that organization
that wing of the government was created in
the wake of 9/11. Why are they treating American
peaceful protesters like this?
This is not the purpose of what that organization
which was supposed to be. And that wasn't
as I mentioned, the only protester that these
unmarked officers went after. They also severely
wounded a protester who was carrying a speaker
God forbid. 26 year old Donovan La Bella,
suffered a fractured skull and required facial
reconstruction surgery after he was apparently
hit in the head by a less than lethal munition,
his mother told the Oregonian.
The man is in serious condition at Portland's
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center hospital spokes
woman said Monday. And I want to give you
guys a graphic warning before we show the
video of what happened to this young man.
It's tough to watch, but it's important to
see.
>> So as you can see there, he was shot in
the face with a less than lethal munition,
which is likely a rubber bullet.
These forces are also using tear gas, which
is outlawed in Portland, but it doesn't matter.
They're the feds and the Republican state's
right's president is sending the feds to violate
local and state city laws to just crack down
on people in the First Amendment.
>> Yeah, speaking of the law, the local police
have the authority to arrest you under local
laws if you committed theft, you assault someone.
Those are all local and state issues. So I'm
not entirely clear what authority that the
federal forces would have to arrest anyone.
Theoretically, they could certainly arrest
them if they're going after federal statues,
literally. If they were doing something wrong
in a federal park, but they seem to be roaming
all over these cities.
And so, are they are the people that they're
putting into these unmarked vehicles, are
they even being arrested? Is it on federal
charges? What are the federal charges? Are
we ever gonna find out who fired that rubber
bullet into that kid's face? Or are we no
longer a democracy and we don't have the right
to that information, and secret police can
shoot us in the face and and don't have to
reveal themselves?
Can they be held accountable? Well, I don't
know we're lawless now. And look, when the
brown shirts started, they didn't report to
the normal hierarchy. They reported only to
the guy who would eventually become dictator.
And so once you have these renegade quasi-military
forces that are outside of the law, you could
do anything you want and get away with it.
So if people are thinking or asking, hey,
we've heard so many times this nonsense about,
this is the most important election of our
lifetimes, etc. Now this ain't like the other
ones, Trump is an existential threat. What
you're seeing in Portland right there in those
videos, if he had a whole another four years,
that would be the tip 
of the iceberg.
