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Down at the Justice Center for that late live-tweet shift. Candlelight vigil and a good crowd
#DefendPDX #PortlandProtests #PortlandProtest #RoseCityJustice #blacklivesmatter
#sacredfence #pdxprotests
Person on the megaphone expressing dissatisfaction with both Rose City Justice and the Portland Protest Bureau. Unclear what the beef is with Portland Protest Bureau: to my knowledge just a funny dude with a megaphone RCJ discourse is, of course, nothing new
An uneasy silence, then chanting resumes by the sacred fence: re-erected after last night's shenanigans
The candles spelling out "black lives matter" and "I can't breathe" are still beautiful. Other people have taken far better pictures than I ever couldhttps://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1276375805422002176?s=19 …
pic.twitter.com/11CTkWxfc7Something new: the PPB has boarded up the second story...window? Facade? I dunno what to call it, but it's boarded People still fighting about RCJ. Chanting has died down again. The suspicion is both necessary and roughpic.twitter.com/hjwHAC7wka
Announcement that 500 people took the North Precinct. The crowd approves
The efficiency by which the protesters dismantle and move this fence is Incredible. We are all fence experts at this pointpic.twitter.com/cIbCNsEwai
"I'm sick of y'all saying peaceful protest because while we are nonviolent, ain't shit peaceful about these motherfuckers!!"
Periodically, people come up to the black femme on the megaphone of the Rose City Justice variety, asking--I assume--for her to be less divisive or to encourage a less fence-dismantling type of protest. She is NOT having it
Not sure how clearly you can see it, but the inmates are flashing their lights at uspic.twitter.com/zOeC8SW6a8
Protesters sitting on the JC steps, decorating the plywood with lovingly-rendered spray-paint portraits of dead pigs
If I were a stock-buying fella, I'd invest in whoever makes the squeaky pigs everyone now has because hot damn their hour has ARRIVED
Tamir Rice would have been 18 years old today. We sing him happy birthday
Listening to a local track about police. Hanging out, decorating the JC. 0 sign of cops
"While I will never police how people protest, I do invite everyone within the sound of my voice not to light shit on fire tonight. Keep in mind that there are inmates in the building"
Getting word that the reason we aren't seeing any pigs is because they're all up North. Solidarity to everyone holding it the fuck down out there
There's a kind of alchemy we've only experienced in the past few days. Once the fence comes down and the cops don't immediately assault us, it's a whole new kind of calm. Music. Chatting. Smoking. Graffiti. A feeling of chill relaxation impossible when the sacred fence is present
Reports of cops on Burnside gearing up. So much for peace if true
No sign of them yet. Rumors and whispers, perhaps Here's some very polite graffiti for your nervespic.twitter.com/Jk0dF0Haz8
Literally 15 seconds after I send tweet the police arrives
By arrive, I mean they fired a barrage of pepper bullets from the JC. Now silence again. The music starts up What a bizarre statement. "We're here, we randomly shoot, get used to it"
If they wanted the extremely chill crowd to get less chill, they got their wish. We are at the back of the JC Cannot overstate how much this move would not have happened without that random fucking barrage
"Stop. Fucking. Shooting at us. There are no riots. There's no looting. Suck my whole dick" The misanthrophile fact-checking team tells me all of this is correct
And with that message delivered, we're back to the front of the JC
Gonna head North to see what's going on out there. @DonovanFarley and @PDocumentarians are holding it down with the JC coverage!
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