Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

"Raise your hands if you've lost someone to the cops" "If the cops didn't do what they should have done for you" " If you've seen them do something they shouldn't have done" "If you've been targeted by the cops" "That's too many hands!!" -@1misanthrophile

Someone gets up and tells a harrowing story of his fourteen year old sister's murder at 14 by her boyfriend. How the Portland police laughed when they reported it, reported it as a runaway. It took them six months before they admitted she was dead -@1misanthrophile

Someone speaks about Jessica Williams, a woman who was murdered in 2003 A white femme describes being arrested and groped when she was 15 A biracial femme talks about never being white enough or black enough -@1misanthrophile

People beginning to drift back here in small groups, probably for the same reason I did: concern that the group left here was too small if the cops start trouble Now I wish I'd stayed at the waterfront. After those stories it feels a little shallow here -@1misanthrophile

Activists talking about a new Declaration of Independence. A chant: "This is our fucking nation, now it's time for declaration! " People continue to speak. Meanwhile at the elk someone lights off fireworks after firework. A strange mismatch of mood -@1misanthrophile