Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

Feds order us not to tamper with the fence. Whatever tampering is happening must be subtle or non-existent: I'm not seeing it A barrage of pepper balls hits the crowd where I am and I promise you, no one is doing anything here

Someone shoots silly string over the fence and a moment later pepper balls retort

An actual firework explodes within the fence. This is literally the first thing that could even remotely be called provocation tonight It seems my respirators lower strap has broken and I am displeased. It's not a good time More pepper balls, why not

A pepper ball just hit me in the foot. Probably ten feet away. It hurts like a bitch. A few centimeters over and j think it would be broken. As it is, I can feel it swelling up As always I am wearing a yellow press vest, a press helmet and a press badge

I can't get a good picture of these fuckers because they have killed the lights and are shining lights at us when we try to film

There was a time when I worried I'd get hurt at these and now I just wonder how badly I'm gonna get hurt. Not a single night had gone by when I haven't been hit by something: usually small, occasionally large