Federal law enforcement officers have used excessive force against peaceful protestors and given favorable treatment to those who support Trump administration policies, Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor told Justice Department officials today.

He made the claim in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asserting the city’s perspective in a dispute between local and federal officials over law enforcement’s handling of the mostly small-scale protests that have occurred in recent months outside an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in south Portland.

Among the examples the city attorney cited: Federal law enforcement officers have shoved peaceful veterans and elderly people to the ground; indiscriminately used impact munitions to disperse an otherwise peaceful crowd;

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