Masked men, clad indistinguishably from soldiers, yanking civilians off the street in the dead of night and throwing them into unmarked cars is the modus operandi of totalitarian regimes — or the stuff of dystopian fiction.
But that’s now the reality in the US. In recent weeks the department of homeland security has sent hundreds of federal agents into Portland, Oregan, to quell protests over racism and police violence. The justice department and Oregon governor appear to have negotiated a withdrawal of those agents. But attorney-general Bill Barr told Congress last week that federal agents would be headed to other cities, including Cleveland, Milwaukee and Detroit...
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