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Except they are blocks away from the courthouse.

• graycat 6y ago
  There's an explanation for that, good, bad, or otherwise. The claim is that they didn't want to dive into an angry, violent, dense mob to arrest people because that would be dangerous. For an arrest away from the action, all I saw was one video clip. For how general that was, I saw no information. I was concerned about that one video clip, but without more information I'm ready to set it aside as poor judgment, a mistake, a one time thing, or some such. I need more information. But, still, broadly, the "FPS" was not there, in either theory or practice, for the scary reason, Federal forces, not wanted in Portland, inserted to police the city, etc. Even given the one video clip, the FPS was clearly not policing the city. And for protecting the Federal courthouse, they were not over doing it since the courthouse was significantly damaged. Can read the reference I gave and conclude that the FPS, CBP, and DHS were just doing what the laws said they were supposed to do. For the laws, does anyone have any better ideas how the Feds can protect Fed property? Uh, supposedly that is actually not the job of the local police, that usually there is an agreement that the line is the center line on the street in front of the Fed building with the FPS on their side and local police on the other. IMHO the Portland case does not look like some start on Federal secret police. For the Chicago case, as best as I can see from the media, the Feds are there just to help local police with murder, etc. investigations and not on the street police work and were invited in by the mayor of Chicago.