When men in military fatigues sprang out of an unmarked minivan in front of Mark Pettibone this Wednesday, his first instinct was to run. He made it about a half-block before he realized there would be no escape. They caught him.

The feds in Portland are doing this.

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"I was terrified," Pettibone told The Washington Post. "It seemed like it was out of a horror/sci-fi, like a Philip K. Dick novel. It was like being preyed upon."

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They detained him and then released him. Pettibone still doesn& #39;t know who arrested him or whether what happened to him legally qualifies as an arrest. Local authorities are not being informed about what& #39;s going on.

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The acting secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, was in Portland this week. He refused to answer an Oregon senator& #39;s questions about what the troops were doing in Portland.

The governor has asked for them to leave!

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