Portland, July 30 (RHC)-- Black Lives Matter protests continue across the United States.  In Portland, Oregon, protesters arrested by federal agents on even the most minor charges are being ordered by federal judges to sign a pledge not to protest again as a condition of their release from jail.  One attorney with the ACLU called the orders “sort of hilariously unconstitutional.”

In New York, plainclothes police officers snatched a protester from the street Tuesday during a protest march and forced her into an unmarked minivan — as uniformed officers pepper-sprayed onlookers.  The arrest drew comparisons to tactics used by federal officers in Portland. Eighteen-year-old Nikki Stone was released Wednesday morning after being charged with five counts of damaging police cameras around City Hall.