Gov. Kate Brown (D-OR) Was Interviewed About the CBP Agents Intervening in the Protests in Oregon.
LEMON: Protests in Portland, Oregon for the past 50 nights devolving into clashes between protesters and federal agents according to state and local officials. And video has surfaced on social media showing masks and camouflage individuals with generic police patches detaining a protester dressed in a black outfit and driving them off in an unmarked van. It is unclear what exactly happened the moments immediate before this short clip was recorded. Here it is.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are you doing? Use your words. What are you doing? Use your words. What are you doing?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I haven't done anything wrong.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Use your words.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I haven't done anything wrong.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's going on, sir marshal?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What is going on?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We need to know --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who are you?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where are you taking this man?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: An LGU will get you out. What's your name? Tell us your name.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's your name?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, you're fine. We'll get you out.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bro, what --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We got you, friend.</s>LEMON: So, Josh Campbell joins me now. Josh is a former FBI supervisory special agent. Josh, hello to you. This video is absolutely nuts. What is the story here?</s>JOSH CAMPBELL, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Yes, Don, it's obviously been very controversial -- controversial since this video first surfaced. Now, again, as you mentioned, you look at these images where you have these officers in tactical uniforms, it didn't have a police insignia but they take a person, arrest him and take him to an unmarked van as nearby bystanders ask the police officers who are you? They're asking them to identify themselves. Now this has caused a wide backlash of people accusing law enforcement here of over excessive use of force, including one U.S. senator who has called this authoritarianism. Now I can tell you personally, Don, we've been working trying to figure out who these officers were. I contacted multiple federal agencies this morning. It took hours and hours for those agencies to respond. Finally, we learned who those officers were. They were from U.C. Customs and Border Protection, one of their tactical teams that was out here following these nights of unrest, following some of these protests which turned violent against some of the federal buildings, including the one I'm standing at here. Which obviously a very peaceful protest going on behind me. But they were part of this infusion of resources that were brought in after President Donald Trump said that he was going to get tough on some of these rioters. And again, we saw what transpired. You have these officers using tactics that people continue to say are excessive use of force by police even as Customs and Border Protection say they were out trying to conduct a lawful investigation.</s>LEMON: Josh, I understand that CBP has actually issued a statement about this incident. What are they saying?</s>CAMPBELL: Yes. So, what their statement is saying and I'll read it to you here, it says, CBP agents had information indicating the person in the video was suspected of assault against federal agents or destruction of federal property. It goes on to say that once agents approach the suspect a large and violent mob move towards a location for everyone's safety. CBP agents quickly move the suspect to a safer location for further questioning. But again, that's not going to lay low protesters here that are saying look, the officers should have identified themselves. They take someone, throw him into an unmarked vehicle and then whisk him away. Obviously that smacks of the kind of authoritarianism that they are trying to stop here. CBP saying that they had a lawful right to stop this person. I will tell you finally, Don, that I reached out to CBP asking them what happened to this individual? Was he released? Was he charged? No word yet back from Customs and Border Protection despite our request to find out what happened to this person, Don.</s>LEMON: Well, it's interesting because they are saying a mob and I mean, again, we say we don't know what happened before but in the video we don't see a mob as they're taking the man off, and it's -- you know, it kind of reminds me of the incident in Buffalo where they put out a statement saying the guy tripped when you can clearly see police officers pushed him but we are showing the video now we don't see a mob.</s>CAMPBELL: Yes. There are lot of questions there, Don. And again, as we mentioned we don't see what happened before that video, we don't know what happened. We do know based on a reporting, that there have been incident to protest here that have turned violent that there's been destructions of building. But so many of these protests including the one happening right here behind me in Portland outside the federal building have been overwhelmingly peaceful. In fact, we heard one of the speakers just say a moment ago that if you are in this crowd and you are seeking to use profanity or seeing to cause some type of violence, they don't want you here. They want people to remain peaceful. Again, whether this message spreads to this entire movement is yet to be seen. Also, yet to be seen what happens next with law enforcement. We know that the president has continued to make these types of protests, the violent ones a political issue, talking about moving in resources a really heavy-handed approach yet to be seen whether the federal resources will continue to move into the city, or whether this protest is a lot to just complete itself. Don.</s>LEMON: Yes. Protesting is one thing, but rioting and destructing property the destruction of properties another. But also, I think people deserve some answers. It was very mysterious what happened. People with no insignia going into an unmarked car, yanking someone off the street. So, thank you for getting to the bottom of it. Stay on top of it, Josh. Thank you. We appreciate it. We've got a lot more to come on the growing outrage over this story, you are going to hear what Oregon's Governor Kate Brown says. She's next. She wants the feds out of her state.