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Federal Law Enforcement Deployed To Portland To Stop Antifa

Over the weekend, video showed rioters painting downtown buildings and lighting fires in the street.

It marked 30-plus consecutive day of civil unrest in the city.

Custom Borders Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan says “these are not protesters, these are criminals who got together and organized and planned and actually brought weapons, they brought shields, they brought frozen water bottles, rocks, lasers, weapons with the intent to destroy a federal building and harm law enforcement officers...I don't care what your idealogic beliefs are, your political affiliation, violence, we should all be united, is wrong.”

He went on to say that according to the situation report “a pipe bomb, a fused incendiary device and machete was actually discovered during that search. Think about the deadly consequences from the criminal actions.”

Over the weekend, agents arrested seven people who now face federal charges for a variety of offenses from assault on a federal officer to destruction of federal property and creating a hazard on federal property.

KATU-TV in Portland reports:

“The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon said the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse has sustained extensive damage from vandalism during the protests and riots downtown...
Below is a list of those who were arrested alongside their charges:
Rowan Olsen, 19, of Portland, is charged with disorderly conduct, creating a hazard on federal property, and failing to obey a lawful order
Shant Singh Ahuja, 28, of Oceanside, California, is charged with destruction of federal property
Andrew Steven Faulkner, 24, of Beaverton, Oregon, is charged with assaulting federal officers
Gretchen Margaret Blank, 29, of Seattle, Washington, is charged with assaulting federal officers
Christopher Fellini, 31, of Portland, is charged with assaulting federal officers
Cody Porter, 28, of Portland, is charged with assaulting federal officers
Taimane Jame Teo, 24, of Eugene, Oregon is charged with assaulting federal officers
The U.S. Attorney's Office - District of Oregon also released the following information about the charges:
On July 2-3, 2020, Olsen is accused of using his body to push on and hold a glass door at the Hatfield Courthouse closed, preventing officers from exiting the building and causing the door to shatter. With the door broken, a mortar firework entered the courthouse, detonating near the officers. The officers used shields and their bodies to block the open doorway for approximately six hours until demonstrators dispersed.
On July 4, 2020, Ahuja is accused of willfully destroying a closed-circuit video camera mounted on the exterior of the Hatfield Courthouse.
On July 5, 2020, Blank is accused of assaulting a federal officer with a shield while the officer was attempting to arrest another protestor.
On July 5-6, 2020, Faulkner, Fellini, Porter, and Teo are accused of assaulting federal officers with high intensity lasers. At the time of his arrest, Faulkner also possessed a sheathed machete.

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