Dangerous Use of Crowd-control Weapons against Protestors and Medics in Portland

“Now they seem to just want to hurt us”: Dangerous Use of Crowd-control Weapons against Protestors and Medics in Portland, Oregon

Regardless of where we are, we are living in a reign of violence in which we can’t breathe. We are witnessing a global downward trend in terms of respect for fundamental human rights, freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. In most parts of the world, the human rights environment is radically transforming in a way that brings into question the basic concept of human rights: holding, possessing, claiming, and asserting rights legally as a human being.

The report you are about to read,documents unlawful use of force by law enforcement officers during Black Lives Matter protests in June and July 2020 in Portland, Oregon. This report reveals that the violence exerted by law enforcement officers against peaceful demonstrators in Portland constitutes unlawful use of force that could amount to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

(https://phr.org/our-work/resources/now-they-just-seem-to-want-to-hurt-us-portland-oregon/)