Politics

This is what I forgot about a few weeks ago, in the mess of all the awful things he's done, as one of the worst and most egregious reasons not to re-elect him.

Everyone remember in cities across the country, him deploying un-marked, unidentified federal law enforcement to protests to essentially kidnap protestors off the street.

These weren't the governors deploying the national guard either, or your local police/sheriff, if was Trump and his associates deploying federal officers.

I don't even honestly remember hearing what happened to many of these people, they were extrajudicial kidnappings; they weren't even read their rights, they just pulled up in unmarked vehicles, no clear display of badges, or identifying information covered up, and pulled people into their vehicles.

This was very much applied to BLM protestors, but could easily be applied to abortion protestors, or really any kind of protestor.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland

Reading up on it a bit now years later, apparently taken to a secondary location, then read their miranda rights, photographed, and questioned; released with no record of arrest. Very much not the way to handle protests