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The protests. as a white guy, he didnt really have to worry about the cops. but all that changed in july 2020 when after weeks of mostly peaceful protests, donald trump flooded portland with federal agents to, quote, protect federal buildings, unquote. >> we need to know who are you? what is going on? >> many of the agents didnt wear badges and yanked protesters off the streets into unmarked vans. >> we cannot have secret police abducting people. this is a democracy, not a dictatorship. >> this ...

New orleans is a homogeneous city, so to claim that you love diversity and tolerate it is easy because theres not a whole lot to tolerate, and you can yell we celebrate diversity because its not there. >> they have been community leaders and organizers in portland for decades. >> we repair and renovate black-owned homes and businesses and help try to build equity and raise property values. >> and a journalist has been

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Together with the american indian movement in portland and elsewhere, that was a major threat, and it needed to be broken up. >> yeah. >> right away. >> during the civil rights movement, native american tribes joined the black panthers to fight racial injustice and poverty. and while the fbi was quick to target and disrupt this alliance with raids, imprisonment, and even assassinations, the seeds for future alliances had been planted. >> so we have this opportunity to pick up where our parents a...

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Because there was fast housing built there to put people in so that they could be workers. >> at its height, vanport was home to 40,000 people. >> then the floods came, and literally within hours, people lost anything that they may have had. they were just sort of left on their own to get it figured out after that. of course that place was never rebuilt because they didnt need those workers anymore. >> and america repeats that cycle of natural disasters happening, it affecting black folks, indig...

Updated guidance is on summer camps, right? >> yes, and i think the guidance will include some hybrid guidance, if the kids are running around on the soccer field they probably dont need masks on, if they are indoors doing activities they probably do. >> okay. >> thats my guess as to what the guidance will be. >> dr. reiner, thank you on all of this this morning. >> my pleasure. still to come, a lot this hour. an ally to congressman matt gaetz set to plead guilty today and to cooperate with in...

My vision. i just collapsed on a -- on a park bench. >> park bench, yeah. >> thats when one of the volunteer combat street medics came up and rescued me. they pulled me out of there. >> the medic got chris to the hospital where he got patched up and end and the night, probably thinking, what the [ bleep ] just happened? >> its ridiculous that veterans have to come out of the woodworks in order to try to protect their fellow citizens from the depredations of our [ bleep ] law enforcement officers...

Black people or a stereotype of black activism. >> what is it, naked athena. >> dont make me go there. >> that got a lot of attention from the national media, was on naked athena. it feels portlandia-ish. >> here is a white woman and her body becomes the focus of the press in a black lives matter movement, but black womens body, historically we have been objectified. for a white woman to say she is doing this in a way that somehow promotes black lives matter is simply lost on me. today im visi...

Still to come, indias daily covid cases dropped significantly in the past 24 hours, but rural areas are still seeing a frightening surge. plus, a shortage of vaccines in peru means vaccine tourists are flying north. well have that.