commissioner joanne hardesty and i are calling for an immediate meeting with department of homeland security leadership on the ground in portland and with the acting secretary of the department she had to both to discuss a cease fire and removal of heightened federal forces from portland a cease fire with its own citizens is the u.s. crossing over the line from social unrest to something more serious judge for yourself. some are calling this trumps electoral battlefield and he is calling in reinforcements perhaps to maintain his persona as a law and order president as the violence continues to snowball today i'm announcing a surge of federal law enforcement in 2 american communities plagued by violent crime will work every single day to restore public safety protect our nation's children and bring violent perpetrators to justice but seattle's liberal mayor is blaming trump for the mayhem and in fact i think the president's actions said directly escalated and worst responsible for what happened this weekend i was just talking to a number of mayors throughout the country who saw a similar thin

after another night of protests, joann hardesty, comments police are sending in saboteurs to create havoc and justify their presence. today she apologized saying emotion got the best of her but added she doesn't want officers there unless 9 one one is called. >> are they exacerbating federal police in portland police? yes. they are exacerbating the tension. i don't want to see them coming out initially ready for a fight and that is exactly what it looks like when they show up in right gear. >> her initial statement was called ridiculous saying, quote, politicians bent on power perpetuating misinformation and untruths are as guilty of using their privilege as the rioters. according to city officials people since 144 fires from the end of may to mid july. a suspect of accused of throwing up molotov cocktail appeared in court wednesday. and seems new development in the case of a couple films pointing guns at protesters marching past their homes. motional -- local station 5 finding evidence when crime workers took apart the handgun that was reportedly capable of firing, reassembled it to make