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On the recordJuly 23, 2020
Thank you. You made the point about lack of identification. I have here the picture of how these have been deployed. I will make sure you can see it as well. Many are in camouflage--the generic police, with no sense of what agency they are part of, no unique identifier, even as the head of their organization--it was later clarified, and we found out, that they were CBP, Customs and Border Protection. He said: Of course, they have unique identifiers and, of course, they are marked as Federal law enforcement--which they are not. But if one of these individuals, in the course of attacking protesters, shoots them with a rubber bullet that fractures their forehead and puts them in critical condition in the hospital, would we have any idea how to hold that officer accountable if they have no ID?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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Jul 23, 2020

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