Most were arrested after a riot had been declared and folks were ordered to leave. Arresting them was not illegal and they were breaking the law. However, 2 points: as most district attorneys showed, people who were just there and didn't do anything were not prosecuted and so shouldn't really have been arrested. Secondly the declarations of a riot could be wrong, but at the time being in a riot was a crime.

But let's ignore all that for a moment.

Propaganda.

'innocent people being snatched off the streets..' (...in unmarked vans)

Implies that the feds and local police are routinely illegally kidnapping peaceful protestors across the country.

The truth is that this happened in one street in one city on one night only to less than a handful of protesters, still prortesting once a riot had been declared by uniformed feds in one unmarked van at the same time as uniformed feds in marked vans were doing the same thing a few yards away.

That leads me to think that this small event has been turned into a propaganda story..it's a classic example.

in groups think the out group believes propaganda and that we in the ingroup are immune to it. Don't believe the hype.

Kind of makes me wonder if the whole purpose of snatching those people was to get physical access to their phones for surveillance.

Its not propaganda, cut that double speak shit out.

They knew exactly what they were doing.

The fact they act up when they get remotely held accountable doesn't change that. It just makes them naive enough to think the law is on their side.

Its not, and most people want them to just fucking stop.

Oh please. There is now over 100 days of videos of them attacking federal buildings and lighting the fucking mayor’s condo building on fire. The lasers they are shining into police eyes are powerful enough to ignite a piece of paper. That’s instant permanent eye damage if you get hit. You either have no idea what is actually going on or you’re spreading propaganda. This is a violent unhinged mob of proud antifa anarchists (and before some ignorant person says antifa is “an idea”, Portland antifa has their own website and wikipedia article - look up Rose City Antifa). Knock it off. They openly espouse their beliefs that property should be destroyed and that anyone opposing them is fair game for violence.