What's been happening in Portland?

Here's an independent reporter's summary of what the protests have been like there.

The abduction filmed on the 15th did not happen in a vacuum. As other local reporters have noted, it was the end result of more than six weeks of escalating state violence against largely nonviolent demonstrators. I have been in the streets of Portland documenting this movement since the very first riot. Before the national press unleashes a flood of new stories based on their first few hours in town, I’d like to explain what’s been happening:

State and Federal law enforcement are at war with the people of Portland.

Basically, the police there have been beating and gassing people in the streets for a few months now.  And now a federal secret police force is there kidnapping people as well.  But it's awfully rich to hear the mayor and police officials who have been waging the war against their own people all this time complain now.  Nothing wrong with a police state, so long as it's their police state.