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In the October issue, Sarah Jeong takes a long, hard look at how federal aggression escalated protests in one of the whitest cities in America with a feature headlined “The Battle of Portland.”

The Battle of Portland

“While I would be hard-pressed to imagine a DHS agent feeling threatened by a guy with a leaf blower, let alone a line of moms linking arms, I could see the resentment and frustration in their faces as the protesters returned night after night. When the tear gas popped and their own adrenaline flowed, the crowd blurred into an undifferentiated mass of threats that had to be put down.” —Sarah Jeong

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