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Former CNN reporter Amy La Porte declared that Portland, Oregon, was a "pilot program for normalizing domestic militarization" in an opinion piece for The Seattle Times on Friday.

"Now, Portland is no longer simply my home — a city of roses, food carts and rain-slicked bike lanes — it is a pilot program for normalizing domestic militarization. Helicopters drone above leafy neighborhoods, and armored vehicles idle near federal buildings as a small group of protesters gather outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Portland has begun to resemble a domestic occupation and the front line of a war the president insists is already underway, even if, for now, only figuratively," La Porte wrote in an opinion piece ti

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