Federal agents in riot gear pepper-sprayed a Vietnam veteran and photojournalist during protests in Portland, Oregon, early Sunday morning.
A video of the altercation shows the journalist, identified as Mike Hastie, peacefully confronting a group of armed federal officers deployed by the White House to the city.
Hastie describes himself as an army veteran in the video, saying he served as a combat medic during the Vietnam war. The video recording begins in the middle of Hastie’s impromptu speech to law enforcement who had formed a line across one of the city’s intersections.
He explains that he witnessed American soldiers commit atrocities against the Vietnamese people, something he says the agents and their generation know nothing