Activists on social media shared a video clip of the federal forces assaulting a young American woman at dawn Monday in Portland, Oregon, as she shouted under the soldiers' flight "I can't breathe."
The videos showed the federal forces assaulting the young woman bleeding, with soldiers sitting on her back, pressing their hands and a stick on her neck, which made her try to resist and called on them to stop, saying, "I can't breathe."
Twitter users also shared videos showing part of the attacks on demonstrators in Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles and Seattle, as well as threats to the journalists to keep them away from reporting the events.
BREAKING: young woman is arrested. She yells “I can't breath” while a federal officer kneels on her back as she resists arrest
They continue to command her to stop resisting arrest. She is bleeding from the head pic.twitter.com/omnPKSlUTM
- ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) July 27, 2020
And massive protests erupted in several American cities and states as well as after the killing of the African-American, George Floyd, on May 25, after the policeman Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for about 9 minutes while he was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Floyd turned into an icon against racism around the world, and the slogan "Black Life Important" was raised, the issue remained interactive and daily demonstrations persisted.
~ 30 minutes ago, US Marshals came around the courthouse on Salmon and formed a line in front of the courthouse. After a couple minutes they started snatching people, including this woman who was bloodied after 4-5 paramilitary jumped on her. #PortlandProtests pic.twitter.com/2hnteX7anS
- Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) July 27, 2020