The mayor of Portland, Oregon, is telling President Donald Trump that he has to pull out his federal law enforcement agents from the city. This comes after reports that the federal officers have detained several of the mayor’s beloved rioters while far from the federal property that they were supposed to be protecting. “Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,” the mayor said during a news conference.

“This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump’s White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging polling data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials,” he added.

The mayor was backed by Oregon governor Kate Brown who said that the President was just after to win some political points, which is why he sent the Federal officers into Portland. She also accused him of just creating a distraction from what the coronavirus is doing right now. The spokesperson for the governor said on Friday that the arrest of people without probable cause is “extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties and constitutional rights.” The Oregon Attorney General has also made moves to files lawsuits against federal law enforcement agencies who have taken actions against the protesters in Portland.

City and state officials are doing everything that they can to protect the rioters who have been doing damage to Portland. Wheeler has not done anything to stop them for the past several weeks that they have constantly been rioting in the streets. They have threatened to burn federal buildings down within the city, and that has prompted President Trump to send in Federal law enforcers to protect the buildings. As expected, the decision of the President has aroused the ire of the Democrats. He was accused of being a tyrant and of the federal officers of being “stormtroopers.”

It is surprising how these local officials are trying to hinder the federal government from doing its job. They do nothing about the riots in their jurisdiction; then when someone else steps in to do the job for them, they do everything in their power to get in the way.