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.

(1/n) https://twitter.com/dburbach/status/1283936410043637763

"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."

(2/n) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/

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

(3/n) https://twitter.com/R_L_Monahan/status/1283954613524344841

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's questions about what the troops were doing in Portland.

The governor has asked for them to leave!

(4/n, n=4) https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-leaders-respond-to-criticism-from-dhs-head-over-portland-protests