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
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Mom bloc--and i say this with love--has left. That's ok. Them showing up at the beginning is enough. We'll see them tomorrow The people who are left? All the "punks" the Portland Protest Bureau accuses of antagonizing the police and running The ones willing to eat gas all night
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O say does that start spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Nopic.twitter.com/sQrF2cJnFH
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I'm sorry my mistake: MOM BLOC IS STILL HERE God I love you Portlandhttps://twitter.com/shitnataliesays/status/1287280238540361728?s=19 …
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Someone throws a road flare, illuminating the courthouse with a highly-appropriate hellish glow Pepper balls fired immediatelypic.twitter.com/PHrvrP2Ga8
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God, I regret to inform you that your boy is back and he still hasn't read your book. Please come collect your lost sheeppic.twitter.com/rhWyw9U237
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Another warning. Unlawful assembly. Yawn A firework interrupts the speech. Cheers
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I can hear the automatic bursts of pepper ball fire but I can't see or feel it. That's how good this shield wall ispic.twitter.com/luBW3pDF6Z
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I make my way to the intersection of 3rd and Salmon, where the crowd is enormous and cameras bristle. This is the only well-lit area of the entire street The desire to be seen: not for clout but because the eyes of the world are our only real defense against these ghouls
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As if listening to my inner monologue, a single lamp lights in the middle of the street
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The feds deliver another one of their arbitrary warnings. I guess it's nice of them to let us know they're thinking of paying us a visit
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In the beginning we would have been chanting names. And I don't think it's that we've lost focus. It's that our focus has changed from conveying a message with our voices to asserting our rights with our bodies. Braced for the next fight. All our concentration there
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A protester who must be at least half-spider manages to climb the fence. Hangs out at the top for a moment, and then an enormous boom echoes out A firework. Thank God. The protester drops back down
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It's wild that this crowd has barely thinned, if at all. 1AM and still thousands of people here
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And just like that: gas. Without hesitation leaf blowers move in from all directions, converge on the cloud, and get to work "Thank you leaf blowers!" someone shouts. The crowd applauds
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More gas, obviously, why not, it's that time No sign of actual fed emergence yet
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Nothing like a bonfire on a beautiful summer night. Turns out leaf blowers are a good way to fan flames as well as divert tear gas The feds are displeasedpic.twitter.com/Mvm7At6SCS
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Protesters feed the fire with branches and empty pizza boxes. The crowd creates a wide birth around this gas magnet
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Holy shit They came out in force. I got about 4 minutes of great footage before I got lit up with about six pepper balls. My chest, my wrjstz and worst of all several in the face. I was completely incapacitated. Two medics saved my ass
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Battle of the Fence 1
#PortlandMoms#blacklivesmatter
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They're advancing up Salmon. We're holding at 6th for now. Screams for a medic. Christ, this is a shitshow. First time I've been genuinely scared
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Battle of the fence 2
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I'm afraid your girl is rocked. My wrist is swollen like twice the size it should be and I'm not actually 100% sure what is happening right now I'm being told we're virtually surrounded by PPB and feds Kettle?
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They're chasing people, warning that gas may be used. You fucking think?!
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City has been closed to 405. They're still warning that tear gas may be used if we don't move West Also they're arresting people for heading westpic.twitter.com/VZy6IDgHUV
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These police were not going to let us continue west until they realized they were being livestreamed by someone. Then they let us go Trying to find the main group
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Found them: 14th and Salmon. It's been a while since we got pushed back this far "Stand your ground! There's a thousand of us, not that many of them!" Chant: "you about to lose your job!"
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Battle of the Fence 3: from earlier
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