\u201cWe swear an oath to obey the orders of the President of the United States and to obey the orders of the governor of the state of Oregon,\u201d Bomar told OPB. \u201cThese are lawful orders until deemed otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oregon\u2019s elected leaders are currently challenging that order in court. <\/p>\n
Attorney General Dan Rayfield, Gov. Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson have filed a lawsuit and restraining order, attempting to block Trump from carrying out the deployment. They argue the president has exceeded his legal authority and there is no public safety threat so significant anywhere in Oregon that it warrants a militarized response.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon is set to hear oral arguments Friday.<\/p>\n
The main charge for the National Guard troops will be providing security for federal buildings. It hasn\u2019t been determined yet where the troops will be stationed or whether they\u2019ll be armed. They will not be assisting with immigration or law enforcement, Bomar said.<\/p>\n
Lt. Col. Charles Patzner will command the troops and work with United States Northern Command to determine where the guard should be deployed.. <\/p>\n
If they determine no guard presence is needed, \u201cthen maybe we do stand down. It could be that simple,\u201d Bomar said. \u201cIf it isn\u2019t secure and it is chaotic, then that will also get voiced up that chain of command.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Oregon Army National Guard Soldiers with Company G, 1st Battalion, 189th Aviation Regiment, on March 4, 2018, in Salem, Oregon. Oregon leaders are scrambling to halt the deployment of the National Guard following President Donald Trump’s orders this weekend.<\/p>\n
Sgt. 1st Class April Davis \/ Oregon Military Department Public Affairs<\/p>\n
City officials left waiting for deployment details<\/p>\n
Officials in Portland say they are in the dark about what will happen if and when National Guard troops arrive. Some tactics that played out over the weekend are still a mystery, they said.<\/p>\n
One example: It\u2019s not yet confirmed who is operating a helicopter that began hovering close to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building over the weekend, circling the protests. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have no details on the helicopter,\u201d Portland Police Chief Bob Day told reporters Monday. \u201cI hear it as well but I have no details on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also on Monday, the FBI said it searched a residence associated with a person who allegedly aimed a laser Saturday evening at a helicopter operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n
During the FBI\u2019s search, agents said they found the laser. In all, they arrested four people suspected of being in the country unlawfully. They\u2019ve since been placed into the custody of ICE, the FBI noted. <\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters at the bureau\u2019s central precinct, less than 2 miles from the ICE building, Day disagreed with the premise that federal agents need to intervene to keep the city safe. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one city block. The city of Portland is 145 square miles,\u201d Day said. \u201cAnd even the events that are happening down there do not rise to the level of attention that they are receiving.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sunday saw the largest number of protesters over the weekend, coinciding with the president\u2019s announcement about the National Guard. Counter-protesters also appeared at the facility, leading to heated arguments and some fighting. <\/p>\n
Portland police arrested two people Sunday night: a 17-year-old charged with misdemeanor assault and a 38-year-old man facing felony assault. Those were the first two arrests by Portland police at the ICE facility in roughly three months, Day said.<\/p>\n
The bureau has policed the situation with a far more hands-off strategy than in 2020, when the killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota led to more than 100 nights of protests in Portland. Those protests led to frequent clashes with local and federal officers.<\/p>\n
Rather than deploying riot control tactics against entire crowds, the bureau has relied on bicycle cops wearing bright yellow shirts who often target specific individuals with arrests and work to leave the situation quickly. The bureau also relies on white-shirted \u201cdialogue officers\u201d who try to talk with people without escalating tensions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a totally different landscape,\u201d Day said, comparing 2020 to the current protests outside Portland\u2019s ICE building. \u201cEven though we had some disturbances at the facility, after some quick, targeted arrests, it quickly dissipated and that was the end of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the wider perception of those protests has remained stubborn. Images have streamed across social media showing montages of boarded-up storefronts, fires and violence that Day and other local officials have repeatedly stressed are not happening in the present tense.<\/p>\n
If those are the images convincing Trump to mobilize troops, Beaverton Mayor Lacey Beaty said, then the president is \u201clistening to the wrong people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president cannot watch footage from over a half-decade ago and believe this is the Portland that we\u2019re standing in today,\u201d Beaty said. She was among roughly a dozen mayors who joined together Monday to denounce a \u201cfalse narrative\u201d used to justify targeting the city.<\/p>\n
Beaty, a U.S. Army veteran whose husband is an active member of the Oregon National Guard, said she and the other mayors are the most qualified \u201cboots-on-the-ground\u201d to declare whether federal intervention is needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re the level of government closest to our people,\u201d Beaty said. \u201cListen to the people who know our community the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local officials Monday said they are not privy to any conversations about what the National Guard will do during the planned 60-day deployment. The initial memo signed by the Department of Defense states that they will be protecting federal property and personnel. There is no mention, for example, of enforcing immigration laws.<\/p>\n
Day noted that there are several Portland police officers active in the National Guard, but said he has not been told of any current officers who have been called up. But Day said the lack of clarity of the federal government\u2019s plans doesn\u2019t change his bureau\u2019s strategy \u2013 at least not yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to be consistent in what we do on a daily basis. And we\u2019re going to have to adjust,\u201d Day said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m naive or not paying attention to these outside influences, but the message of the Portland police bureau is: We\u2019re going to stay fixed on our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oregon National Guard said it has begun the process of mobilizing guard members with law enforcement experience…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[138645,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-265724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-national-guard-oregon-law-enforcement-trump-tina-kotek-politics","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115291643464170656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}