I'm asserting they are premature and excessive, and I stand by that. There might have been a reasonable justification during the worst of the COVID-era BLM rioting...but the current ICE protests (and general state of things) in Portland don't remotely approach that level.

I'll not go into the details of my take on the actual motivations and intended outcome of this action in this forum (political...), but I suspect the gist is obvious.