A clarinet player is apparently being held without bail on no specific charges at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver after her husband said she was arrested Sunday during a protest across the street from the ICE facility in South Portland.
The woman’s husband — who asked KOIN 6 News not to identify either of them for safety reasons — said his wife was tackled by federal agents while she was playing her clarinet around 5 p.m.
Only the lower part of one leg is seen in this photo:
A clarinet player was arrested at the ICE facility in Portland, October 12, 2025 (Kenneth Avery)
“It is a beautiful party atmosphere. Everybody’s really excited. Then the band hits into ‘Ghostbusters’, and then at ‘Ghostbusters’, that’s when ICE start storming in,” the husband said. “Why are they targeting a clarinet player? A clarinet player standing on the sidewalk far away from the street, following instructions.”
Video of the arrest obtained by KOIN 6 News shows the woman face down in the mud with her clarinet on the ground next to her.
Perhaps KATU is ignoring messages from their home office to make Portland look like the dangerous terrorist Antifa controlled city Trump and Kristi Noem say it is. They have reporters and photographers at the ICE facility (16 minutes from my house) so their viewers see photos not only of ICE agents pointing real guns at people but also of protesters looking like these:
In adding links to the Portland media I follow to this ( I will keep them on all my Substack), since I don’t look at KATU because it is a Sinclair station, I thought it only fair to check it out. I was pleased to see they are reporting the truth. I added it to my links.
What is crucial is that Portland has led the way, and other cities like Chicago are following in their costumed footsteps. They are making sure they don’t give Trump the ammunition he so desperately wants to use. I have no doubt he wants to use violent protests as a rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act.
Unfortunately, incidents may happen, but it seems that if they do they will either be isolated, provoked, or actually committed by Trumpers as classic false flags.
The “OUT OF CONTROL” incident happened on Oct. 5th. This was nine days ago. Why is it the lead today? It had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump or ICE. It involved street drag racers. I would venture to suggest that many of them don’t even follow political news. There is nary a mention of Trump or ICE in the article. There is no relevance to using “Blue city streets” in the title which more than merely implies that there are riots against the police in other Democratic cities.
Trump can try to say that only martial law and the military can save America, but no matter how many misleading AI videos or pictures he wants to show of violence only the truly brainwashed and braindead (B and B) will believe them when exposed to the truth. Lamentably, there are lots of people who fit into the B and B category. My hope is that there aren’t enough of them to enable Trump to act on his “fuck the facts” impulse. This is an impulse I believe he not only has had in his mind, but has periodically voiced out loud with people he trusts.
You can count the lies and over-the-top exagerations in just the first three paragraphs. Also note that chanting something is proteted free speech and not the same as doing something.
Addendum:
This hs nothing to do with the topic I wrote about. However the story was just on CNN and I want to share it without going into what it says about the psychopathology of the president:
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This is the third Substack I've posts about Hitler and Trump. I wasn’t going to write on this subject, but then I read Thom Hartmann’s “The Brutality is the message…” Substack.
In it he refers to Hitler five times and the Nazi’s seven times. Below I highlighted most of the references.
Of course, Trump referred to “nuclear” as the “N-word” during that cringeworthy speech to military leaders. He said “there are two N-words, and you can’t use either of them.” He was discussing U.S. nuclear capabilities. The generals sat in stunned silence. In fact, the other n-word which should send chills up and down our spines when applied to Trump and MAGA that people like Thom Hartmann (our number one progressive radio host) is starting to use is Nazi.
Below is the comment I posted on Hartmann’s Substack:
The subtitle “Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...” is so true and should be incredibly terrifying. It is, as you say, without using the word “Hitlerian” right out of Hitler’s playbook. I haven’t read that this was spelled out in Project 2025. I don’t think there’s a chapter on the use of systematic sadistic terror as a major tactic in their overrall strategy. What has been transpiring with this use of brutality as major modus operandi to instill obediance through fear has led me to do my own rebranding for No Kings day. I hate to throw shade on the original intention and coining of the label, but King George III was not Adolph Hitler.
Trump is not Hitler either, but he is much closer in his actions and personality than he is to King George. This is why I compared Trump and Hitler in yesterday’s Substack.
I give huge credit to the “No Kings” protest organizers and recognize that when they selected the label for their first and hugely successful protest on June 14th (Trump’s birthday) the president hadn’t yet emerged as an Americanized and somewhat sanitized version of Alolph Hitler.
I don’t advocate for a name change. “No Kings” is too well established. There is also a risk in going overboard with what can be seen as hyperbole and this plays right into the hand of Trump and MAGA accusing critics of having Trump derangement syndrome.
Not to dwell on naming protests too much, but “No Kings” was a much better name than the “Workers over Billionaires” protests held on Labor Day. I had to look that up.
Having an American oligarchy is far less of a concern than the country turning into a facsist autocracy ruled by a brutal dictator.
What I dread is looking back at the “No Kings” and other national protests, regardless of what they were called, and seeing that any protests had been made illegal, labeled acts of treason, with attempts to organize them punishable by imprisonment or worse.
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I see two primary reasons not to compare Trump to Hitler. The existential reason is that it may minimize the Holocaust and Hitler’s attempt to conquer as much of the world as possible. The other is that it gives ammunition to the Turmp and MAGA to accuse us of fomenting violence by trying to inflame emotions.
He’s been ranting about the so-called “radical left,” and a non-existent terror organization, Antifa, being behind rampant violence that is only occuring in his fevered mind if he even believes it.
Hitler never blamed Jews for violence in pre-war Germany. He just blamed them for everything else that made life difficult for other Germans.
Hitler is a metaphor, and maybe more than a metaphor, and making a poster like I did (it will come before we will use it at a No Kings Day protest) is intended to go beyond saying he aspires to be a king. King George was bad, but he was no Hitler. I expect we’ll see lots of NO KINGS signs like those shown above at the protest.
The wisdom and validity of a Hitler comparison is not a new subject for debate. For one example, see this article:
The article notes that, according to America’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the reason the comparison is so common is simply that it is the “most available historical event illustrating right versus wrong.”
This was written in 2017. Since then Trump was elected for a second time and the Hitler comparisons have become far more common because he is acting more and more like Hitler.
Certainly, Trump and Hitler lived in very different worlds and there’s no way we can compare Alligator Alcatraz to Aushwitz, or ICE agents brutalizing people to Gestapo agents having carte blanche to execute them in the street or in their homes.
We can use the adjective Hitlerian to describe Trump without saying he is exactly like Hitler. For example, he is trying to dominate other countries and he makes insane threats to invade Greenland. This is bluster. He isn’t about to mount a Nazi-like blitzkrieg to take over Greenland, or even Canada or Mexico. He might like to follow in his pal Putin’s footsteps and order U.S. troops to invade countries, but he knows that the attempt to subjugate Ukraine didn’t go all that well. Instead he is poised to use our military to take over major cities in blue states.
Trump wants to take over my city of Portland by force. Force means sending armed soldiers. We could have armored vehicles on our streets. We already have Blackhawk helicopters buzzing the city. They are very loud. It is easy to tell when they fly over my house since they are much louder than ordinary helicopters.
I have no doubt he’d like to have Airborne soldiers rapelling from them onto our streets.
I am sure he’d even like to have lethal and terrfying looking Apache attack helcopters swooping low over Macadam Avenue (a 16 minute drive from my place, see map here) in front of ICE headquarters.
As I typed this Ali Velshi had a segment about Portland.
Is it fair to compare Trump to Hitler? This all depends on what one means by the word “fair.”
If his wishes could turn into reality, then I’ll go out on a limb and say it is fair. We can speculate as to whether he’d order death camps to be built. I really doubt this. It would lead to an actual civil war. Seniors like me (I’m 81) wouldn’t rush to the local gun store (there’s a large one a mile from my place) to buy an AR-15, but I’d volunteer to help those who do in any way I could.
I can see Trump having fantasies about having concentration camps built to send all of his enemies to. There would be many people in red states who would welcome the jobs such facilities would provide and we know from seeing the brutality of ICE and other agents that there are plenty of people who would be eager to work in them.
Addendum:
Addendum: I’m not the only one to invoke the name of the toothpaste mustache man:
