Monthly Archives: July 2020

Federal agents withdraw from Seattle, mayor says

(Reuters) – US agents deployed to Seattle to protect federal property left the city after local officials complained that their presence was raising tensions, the mayor of Seattle said Tuesday. A federal law enforcement officer holds peppercorns during a protest against racial inequality and police violence in Portland, Oregon, USA, …

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Barr: Without federals, ‘without a doubt’, antifa violence would metastasize to other communities outside Portland

Attorney General William Barr told Congress Tuesday that he “certainly” would have the violence spread to other communities if protesters in Portland, Oregon, succeeded in destroying the city’s federal court. He was responding to Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, who had asked about constituents’ concerns that violent protests could …

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