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BumRushDaShow

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5. "But what was the nature of the "discrepancy" in the numbers. The numbers about what?"
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 04:14 AM
Wednesday

In the article link in this OP - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143553226

which is this - https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/24/portland-oregon-ice-building-donald-trump-national-guard-troops-protest/

at the very bottom -

(snip)

But just how many officers have been sent to Portland has been a subject of some controversy.

The majority opinion, signed by Judges Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade, suggested 115 Federal Protective Service officers had been sent en masse to Portland, representing a major diversion of forces. New court filings show that is not the case, but that officers were sent in roughly monthlong “waves” of up to 30 people.


In other words, they exaggerated how many were actually deployed, hysterically insisting that the "war zone" required 115 FPS staff, all sent at once, to quell the "rampant violence", and that was a LIE. There were only 30 officers sent, and then they were switched out and replaced with another set of 30, etc. etc.

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