A group of hundreds of mothers have attended demonstrations and stood as a human barricade between Black Lives Matter protesters and federal officers in Portland after seeing videos circulated online of federal agents in camouflage snatching demonstrators off the streets.
The Portland protests have occurred every night in the nearly two months since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Outrage at Donald Trump deploying federal agents to end what he called 'anarchy' reinvigorated protests in Portland In July.
- I wanted to take action': behind the 'Wall of Moms' protecting Portland's protesters
- Portland clampdown: why are federal agents there and what are they doing?
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