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The North Park blocks are currently deserted. This is not my most exciting live-tweet thread
Back at the Justice Center, where some enterprising protesters have liberated Lownsdale Square from the fence A street preacher is currently being escorted away after, I am told, many warningspic.twitter.com/sTFeVJBbzT
This preacher is refusing to leave. A fight breaks out. Activist on megaphone: "What are we supposed to do about this? Asking all you white people who like to take pictures. Can we let the white people handle it since it's their white person?"
This incident unfortunately gets to an elephant that wanders amongst us every night: what do we replace the police with? How do we deal with malicious actors in our midst? This is not rhetorical. The police are unquestionably toxic, but we have to work on alternatives
Protesters literally carry the preacher away. We'll see if it works "Give it up for everyone who just got Covid from grabbing that guy!" Obviously the guy is not wearing a mask
A barricade goes up on 4th and Main. A barricade goes up on 3rd. The official event with the regularly-clad people continues, perhaps unaware of the transformation around them A protester goes from fence base to fence base and smashes every one on the pavement until they breakpic.twitter.com/cCfKc6e5P9
Chapman Square liberated! You know what that means .. ...New colonizer makeover!pic.twitter.com/egKaZBDiav
I'm switching over to @DefendPDX! Join me and my news comrades over there for all-night coverage of whatever the fuck this night turns intohttps://twitter.com/defendpdx/status/1284343495981887488?s=19 …
Pillow him in and shuffle away. He's tame. We herded him out of the protests in Seattle. It just takes 15-20 bodies willing to stick with him.
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