Gizmodo reports nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight is suing the US Justice Department and five other agencies.<br />The lawsuit concerns the deployment of federal police against protesters in Portland and other cities to counter Black Lives Matter protests.<br />It accuses government officials of unlawfully withholding public records under the Freedom of Information Act.<br />Some of the records sought include legal guidance given to federal agents who have hidden their badges or refused to identify their agencies.<br />Encounters with the unidentified forces have seen them firing chemical agents and harmful projectiles at demonstrators, sometimes resulting in serious injury.
