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   From: no_penises@latimes.com   
      
   "Navy veteran"  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!  "U.S. Naval Academy and   
   former member of the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps"   
      
   Stupidity.  This is why he is a "former" and not "current"   
   member of the U.S. Naval Officer ranks.   
      
   Because he's fucking stupid.  No self-respecting Naval Officer   
   would be caught dead at a protest like that.  Oh wait, there was   
   John Kerry.   
      
   PORTLAND (Reuters) - As a U.S. Navy veteran, Chris David said he   
   thought he would be able to talk plainly with federal agents in   
   Portland and ask them why they were using unmarked cars to   
   snatch people off the street during recent protests in the   
   Oregon city.   
      
   When he tried to speak with them outside the federal courthouse   
   in Portland on Saturday night, he said a federal officer beat   
   him with a baton, breaking his hand in two places. A second   
   officer sprayed him with chemical irritant, David said.   
      
   “I wanted to ask them ‘Why are you guys not following the   
   Constitution?’ But we never got there,” David said in an   
   interview. “They whaled on me like a punching bag.”   
      
   A video appearing to show David being beaten by a federal   
   officer and sprayed with a chemical by another while he stood   
   passively went viral this weekend with 10.7 million views.   
      
   Afterward David, 53, was praised on social media for allegedly   
   standing up to federal officers accused of excessive force and   
   escalating violence as they protect federal buildings.   
      
   Top Homeland Security officials said on Monday they had no   
   intention of pulling back in Portland and defended the federal   
   crackdown on anti-racism protests, including the use of unmarked   
   cars and unidentified officers in camouflage.   
      
   Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the U.S. Department   
   of Homeland Security, told CNN the officers involved in the   
   incident were from the U.S. Federal Marshals Service.   
      
   Cuccinelli said he had seen the video but had not heard the   
   audio or seen reports from officers involved in the event. He   
   did not comment further.   
      
   Portland Police did not immediately respond to a request for   
   comment on the incident.   
      
   Demonstrations began in Portland in May against police brutality   
   and racial injustice triggered by the killing of African   
   American George Floyd.   
      
   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-portland-   
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   portland-idUSKCN24L2CP   
        
      
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