Portland residents bewildered by Trump’s National Guard deployment

Portland, ore. – In this intense democratic city, there is a rhetorical war known for its delicious coffee, many ornate restaurants, a sooty donut, and the small fraction of black -plated activists.

On Saturday, President Trump suddenly announced that a small group of demonstrators sent to Portland, which was “caused by war” for months in a migration and customs executive building in the south of the city center.

Oregon officials strongly pushed back, colored café tables, sun drenched farmers, full -blooming rose gardens and children, families and froling dogs exploding parks with their own social media. Authorities prefer the city to be recognized by Portlandia Vibe, and begging the residents to remain peaceful and not to protest the Trump administration.

Oregon Gov. “There is no requirement or legal justification for military units,” Tina Kotote said. Authorities went to court to stop deploying with a hearing on Friday.

However, the president seems determined. In a speech before a general and admiral meeting on Tuesday, he drew a controversial vision of sending troops to democratic cities to democratic cities to fight with an invasion from inside. He described Portland as “a nightmare like a war bone like World War II”.

“Radikal Sol’s reign of terrorism in Portland is now ending,” a White House press release, “President Donald J. Trump mobilization Federal Resources to Stop Antifaith Hell fire on their runway. “

Trump’s targeting Portland comes after he deployed troops to Washington, DC and Los Angeles and threatened them to do elsewhere. The President says he promises to ensure campaign security, but he is trying to intimidate and provoke democratic castles while detoters are distant from various discussions.

While waiting to see the national guards and when to see when to come, the city residents reacted with a mixture of anger, astonishment and sadness.

A man stands under a public art statue in Ore, Ore, Ore.

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Many acknowledged that Portland had problems: homelessness and open drug addiction are endemic, and camps are crowded. The city center of the city has never healed the pandemic closures and rebellion during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

More recently, one of Oregon’s largest private employers – announced He left 2,400 employees In a district just west of Portland. Los Angeles and many other cities Portland He saw a big decline in tourism This year, a tendency of city leaders does not help Trump’s military interventions.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in his social media, “We need federal help to renew our infrastructure and build an affordable housing and build an affordable housing”. “They send armored vehicles and masked men instead of help.”

This week, residents reiterated similar themes all over the city.

“Nothing happens here. This is a magnificent, peaceful city, Han Hannah O’Malley said at a table with a view of the Willamette river outside Portland Sports Bar and Grill.

The bosses are reflected in the window of Honey Pearl Cafe PDX in Portland city center.

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The restaurant is just a few blocks from a immigration and customs execution building where the ongoing show has become the last focus of the president’s fire against the city.

A small group of people-60s and 70s with gray braids and the highest-level rain jackets have been gathering here for months to protest the federal immigration pressures.

In June, there were several conflicts with law enforcement officers on the site. The police declared a rebellion one night and made several arrests other than the facility, including one person He was accused of strangling a police officer. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Interior Security announced that they arrested laser illegal illegal illegal allegedly, allegedly carried out laser strikes in a border patrol helicopter helicopter.

However, for the city officials and protesters themselves, protests were largely peaceful and quite small, and there was nothing that the city’s police force could not cope.

In the afternoon of Monday, a group of 40 people, including grandmother, parents and children, and a man in the chicken costume hired flowers and signs. A few people were worsened through a metal door in ice officers standing on the car on the road.

On September 28, people protested in Portland, Ore, except for a US immigration and customs storage facility.

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67 -year -old Kat Barnard, a retired accountant for non -profit organizations who said that he started protesting a few months ago and was sitting between care for his grandson, joked, “We are very scared,” he joked. He added that the Trump administration had found a sense of community while opposing the immigration pressure. “I met too many people,” he said. “Just very beautiful. It makes me happy.”

A few miles away, Powell’s Books in the city’s famous bookstore, the trio of retired friends commemorated the negative image of the beloved cities.

Lynne Avril, 74, who moved from Phoenix to Portland a few years ago, said, “This is the most peaceful, gentle community I’ve ever experienced.” Avril is a retired illustrator who wrote the work of art Young Amelia Bedelia BooksHe said he had routinely walking home alone in the dark streets of the city late at night and felt completely safe in doing so.

“He wants another show, Av said Signa Schuster, a 73 -year -old friend of Avril’s friend, a retired real estate manager.

“This is what we’re afraid of, Av Avril replied.

72 -year -old Annie Olsen, a retired federal worker, added, “No problem here,” he added. “Everything is performer and stupid.”

Nevertheless, women said that they were aware that their beloved cities have a negative reputation national. When Avril told his friends at Phoenix that he decided to move to Portland, “People said: ‘Why should he move here [with] All violence? ”

Olsen sighed and shook his head. “Very wrong information,” he said.

In the front lobby of the famous bookstore, the local bestseller lists provided a window to the concerns of many inhabitants. Two books on authoritarianism and censorship were on George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” – shelves. In non -fictional, it was the same story as nasıl how to work fascism ”and“ cruel ”.

The Willamette River passes through the city center of Portland, ore.

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But outside, despite the raining of the sky prediction, it was blue and bright, and many calm Portlanders did what they did with an unexpected gift from the air gods: they were running and bikes along the River Willamette and sipping the famous coffee of their cities and making nibbling on butter Hamres.

“Trump did not open,” 57 -year -old Shannon O’Connor said. He said that Portland has definite problems – “homelessness, fentanyl, a big drug problem” – but unrest is not among them.

A man who called herself on a sidewalk near a highway on the ramp, called “rabbit ,, was panhandling for money with two beagle-pit bull mixes, Pooh Bear and Piglet.

The 48 -year -old Rabbit said that the president did not hear his plan to send to the National Guards, but he did not think it was necessary. Two years ago, he said to Portland, “To get away from all madness,” he found that he was safe. Im I haven’t been threatened yet, ”he said, then hit the board.

Many calm, the President of the President of Portland now in 2020, the city’s black live matter protests briefly shaken in a period of a period of confusion, he said.

“Then we had a lot of problems,” a woman said only because of the fear of being Doxed, a woman who wants to be called “sue .. “Now there is no such thing.” A lifelong Portlander is among those shown in the retired and ice facility to the south of the city center.

He and other inhabitants said that since 2020, the clips of rebellions and other violence were recently involved in social media and even some cable news.

“Either he’s wrong or part of his propaganda,” he said, the president’s depiction of Portland, “he was very upset. I have never protested until this turn. But we have to do something.”

As it returned on Tuesday evening in the afternoon, the blue sky on the city caused clouds and dizming. Parks and outdoor cafes were emptied.

As the night fell, retired women and children who protested outside the ice facility went home and increasingly young people began to take their place.

Until 22:00, law enforcement officers gathered on the roof of the ice building in the tactical equipment. Local television reporters and some independent media watched black -plated protesters played cats and mice with civil servants and stepped into the building to be pushed only with pepper balls tours.

A 39 -year -old man, who wanted to be called “Mushu ve and whose eyes were visible in the middle of his black outfit, was standing in the corner opposite the street, pointing to the independent media that portrayed the protests. “They show that Portland is,” he said with irony.

At the same time, Katie DaviscourtAfter Millennial, a reporter said that he was “attacked by an anti -anti -agitator” in X. He also tweeted, “The suspect fled to his safe house,” he tweeted.

A few minutes later, a group of civil servants exploded from a van and appeared to detain one of the protesters. Then the officers disintegrated and the cold started again.

In the corner, a gray -haired couple who sporting stylish rain jackets walked around the street. If they are worried about the drama made for a video of a few meters away, they did not show. They kept walking their dogs.

Wednesday morning president Weighed againwrite on Real social“Conditions continue to turn into unlawful turmoil.”