PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Republican Party on Sunday published posts on its social media accounts welcoming the planned deployment of California’s National Guard to Portland. The posts included an image that appeared to show a chaotic protest scene, but the photo was not from Portland.

According to a report by The Guardian , the image was a composite of two unrelated photos taken in South America. One showed riot police with shields labeled “Policia,” the Spanish and Portuguese word for police, and originated from a 2008 Getty Images photo believed to be from Ecuador. The other image, showing red smoke and a crowd, was taken by a Brazilian photographer in 2017 and published on the free image site Pexels.

Before a federal judge issued an order temporarily blocking the deployme

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