Federal officers have conducted surveillance of protesters from upper floors of the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, analyzed video footage, posted undercover agents among crowds to arrest people on, records reveal. (1/17)

Federal officers also have shared some of their information with Portland police officers, who assisted them in at least one arrest earlier this month, the documents disclose. (2/17)

The court records provide a window into the tactics of federal agencies based at the courthouse in downtown Portland at a time when local, state and congressional officials from Oregon have roundly criticized the national law enforcement presence. (3/17)

President Donald Trump in a Twitter message Sunday wrote that the city’s leadership “has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators” and that federal officers “must protect Federal Property, AND OUR PEOPLE.” (4/17)

Under an executive order, he sent officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s tactical team, the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be part of a new DHS task force. He promised to send the officers to other cities. (5/17)

Their presence has stoked the nightly strife in downtown, not tamped down tensions as professed by Trump or Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad F. Wolf, local and state leaders say. (6/17)

The crowds are growing, Portland Deputy Police Chief Chris Davis said Sunday. “We all have seen the energy that has gathered just in the last few days,” he said. (7/17)

Gov. Kate Brown has repeatedly called on the federal officers to leave Portland and said over the weekend that Trump “needs to stop playing politics with people’s lives.” (8/17)

Brown also denied a request from Portland police to have help for another week from the Oregon State Police mobile field force. She said she wouldn’t allow the state crowd control team to assist until the federal officers were gone. (9/17)

Federal agents have taken photos of people committing vandalism and reviewed video of action outside the courthouse, sometimes relying on live streams from demonstrators or independent journalists, according to federal officers and prosecutors. (10/17)

They have monitored people before wading into crowds to make arrests -- sometimes waiting for hours until the gatherings have thinned, they said in court papers. (11/17)

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed suit against Homeland Security, CBP, the Marshals Service and the Federal Protective Service seeking to bar federal officers from illegally detaining anyone without probable cause and whisking them off in unmarked rental vans. (12/17)

The suit alleges the federal officers’ actions have violated Portlanders’ free speech, due process rights and resulted in unlawful seizure, creating a public nuisance. (13/17)

Mark Pettibone filed a sworn declaration in support, describing how he was walking home in downtown Portland after demonstrating and “men in green military fatigues adorned with generic ‘police’ patches’” jumped out of an unmarked minivan without warning. (14/17)

“I did not know whether the men were police or far-right extremists... My first thought was to run. I made it about a half-block before I realized there would be no escape from them,‘' he wrote to the court. (15/17)

“I sank to my knees and put my hands in the air." He said the men searched him and read him his Miranda rights. He was taken to the federal courthouse, declined to answer questions and was released but said that he didn’t know why he was detained. (16/17)

Rosenblum has asked a judge to declare it unlawful for federal law enforcement to pull people off streets without probable cause, using unmarked cars and unidentified officers.

Read the full story: https://trib.al/QvWwcid  (17/17)

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