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Coming at you from the newly-established AZ in North PDX and I have to say it's looking good! Solid barricades, good size. More relaxed and less rushed than the short-lived PKAZ
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Nice even barricades. Wide streets. Cars guarding the entrances. There's a calmness here that's more purposeful than the manic thrill of earlier attemptspic.twitter.com/xoM2sSPjsw
Black-clad artists giving the Precinct building a makeover while rooftop cops furiously pace. NWA playing in the backgroundpic.twitter.com/bn8aYB7DDr
A protester instructs the Portland Police to disperse. "This has been declared an unlawful fascist assembly. This is our precinct now. Go to your homes"
"those who remain will be subject to revolutionary tribunals"
It's a night for barrages I guess. A rousing chant of ACAB for the roof cop
People at the snack table start distributing earplugs with a cheerful matter-of-factness most often associated (for me) with movies about the London Blitz
Portland Police Bureau loudly declaring an unlawful assembly. The protesters are highly unimpressed with their orders to vacate
Protesters banging on dumpsters and every other metal surface in sight, chanting "we can't hear you!" at the LRAD announcements
Update: the cops have broken through the barricades. Fladhbang, now a tense standoff. A dumpster fire in the distance. A LOT of pointing crowd control weapons at the crowd: I will upload footage later
On the move again. I like this group. A good mix of sensible and reckless. We melted away from that line and reformed a block away. Obviously there is a dumpster firepic.twitter.com/i9zQNHrgAe
"You push us? We push back!" I love this chant
The police back away! And we follow
And then we realize it's a kettle, so we keep the intersection
It is 2020 and I just realized how profoundly familiar the smell of a dumpster fire is to me nowpic.twitter.com/9XTiMw6v9i
Standing with @hungrybowtie and @IwriteOK as we explore the munitions Robert Evans just picked up. If you aren't watching his periscope what even are you doing?
Suspicions of tear gas deployment
The crowd is retrieving the barricades and dragging them back to the intersection. The calm, leaderless action of this group makes my whole heart sing The unlawful assembly order goes out once more. Everyone braces for impact
Reports from the scanner: cops moving in from the sides I'm sorry to keep talking about this dumpster fire but the flames are nearly to the traffic lights. We worship strange gods in these streets, our streetspic.twitter.com/ZpfzKRvpvh
Not much has changed. A child is dancing on one of the few dumpsters not on fire. Tires burn in the intersection One of the dumpsters begins to burn a shop. Protesters run to put it out. It's not clear whether they'll be able to do so
The llidw have chosen this moment to advance. Definitely tear gas
Police, sorry for the typo. It has been a while since I have tasted the spiciness of the gas Pretty sure that's illegal They full on chased us. We ran. They retreated. We follow. Dumpsters wheeled to the front to hold the line
As we ran I definitely saw someone get pulled out of a moving car by cops
As the LRAD recites his warnings, NWA blares. Everyone is singing along I like to think the fear I hear over the LRAD is a response to our fearlessness
Look at this shithttps://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1276446115831803906?s=19 …
"you! Lighting the fire! Stop! Thats--its a crime!" -the LRAD guy I swear to God (Dumpster fire in the middle of the road, as if I had to specify)
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