"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
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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 -
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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 -
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I've wandered back to the JC. People still lighting off fireworks. The District Courthouse is currently a de facto skate park. A new piece of graffiti catches my eye No sign of police -
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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 -
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The waterfront group is back. A person I've seen here every single night speaks "Last night, I was arrested by the PPB for exercising my constitutional rights! Guess what? I'm back!" He produces a Trump 2020 flag. You already know what happens next: -
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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 -
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More Declaration of Independence talk. Also some talk about God. Hesitant applause Most of the primary activists leave the steps. Another speaker: "If you ain't about peace, get the fuck off these streets!" A response from the crowd: "No justice, no peace!" -
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