And impact munitions to try and break up protesters targeting federal buildings. There are reports of multiple arrests, so it is not clear whether Portland Police or federal officers made those arrests. All of this, just hours after acting homeland secretary, chad wolf, visited portland to meet with federal Law Enforcement there. Wolf today pointing the finger at state and local leaders. I was in portland yesterday, wanted to take a firsthand look and understand what was going on. What i saw there was a court house thats been under siege, repeatedly conceded, doors broken, wood is broken. Local and state leadership are fostering an environment where its difficult for Law Enforcement to do their job. They are not coming out, in my view, in my opinion, condemning the violent activity there in portland. Melissa but portlands democratic mayor, ted wheeler, saying he does not want dhs officers in the city, and tweeting they havent invited him to meet with them and that he would decline if t
Am going to need you here in the city and i need you for two or three days and i may need you longer than that and i cant tell you what im going to need you to do yet. But i know i need you. And they came. They began preparing readiness to be able to move folks from all over the state of minnesota, literally from miles and miles away to come to the metro area to be prepared to help us keep the peace. Over the course of the day, i met with my counterparts in minneapolis and st. Paul, chief arradondo, to talk about what missions they needed the state to help them fulfill. The department of Public Safety at that point was calling to say we are here to support you. We are your partners. Tell us what you need and we will backfill. We will fill in the gaps. Tell us what you need for resources and we will help you get. And we did get some very specific missions and in other cases we got no real mission at all. In the absence of a real mission, we began to identify where the critical needs wer
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