Yesterday, along with Sen. Ron Wyden, Sen. Chris Murphy, and other
colleagues, I introduced legislation to stop the Trump administration from
using federal forces as a shadowy paramilitary against Americans.
Thousands of PCCC members have [ [link removed] ]signed on in support of this bill.
After a week in which heavily armed, unmarked federal forces in unmarked
vehicles have been grabbing protesters off the street in Portland, this
legislation would:
1. Require individual and agency identification on uniforms of officers
and prevent unmarked vehicles from being used in arrests.
2. Limit federal agents’ crowd control activities to federal property and
its immediate vicinity, unless their presence is specifically
requested by both the mayor and governor.
3. Require disclosure on an agency website within 24 hours of deployments
specifying the number of personnel and purposes of deployment.
4. Make it illegal to conduct any arrests in violation of these rules.
[ [link removed] ]A vote could happen as early as this week. All my colleagues on both
sides of the aisle need to know the public is paying attention and won't
tolerate this. Will you sign on as a supporter of our emergency proposal?
What we have seen in the last 10 days in Portland has been horrific and
unconscionable.
Federal forces have shot an unarmed protester in the head with impact
munitions, and paramilitary forces in camouflage have been grabbing people
off the streets and putting them into unmarked vans.
These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, not a democratic
republic. This gross violation of Americans’ civil rights must end
immediately.
In the Senate, I introduced this bill with Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Chris
Murphy (D-CT), and 21 other senators have already signed on. In the House,
Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), and
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced companion legislation.
With a vote possible as soon as this week in both houses of Congress, and
with every state at risk, we have to mobilize support fast. We can't let
these authoritarian tactics stand.
[ [link removed] ]Please sign onto our emergency legislation saying this is unacceptable
in America and must end.
Thanks for being a patriotic American.
-- Sen. Jeff Merkley ([ [link removed] ]@SenJeffMerkley)
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