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‘It was like being preyed upon’: Federal officers in unmarked vans detain Portland protesters – SFGate

“Arrests require probable cause that a federal crime had been committed, that is, specific information indicating that the person likely committed a federal offense, or a fair probability that the person committed a federal offense,” Orin Kerr, a professor at University of California, Berkeley Law School, told The Post. “If the agents are grabbing people because they may have been involved in protests, that’s not probable cause.”

via www.sfgate.com

This is how the police in Latin American banana republics roll. It’s a bad sign.