People try to chant the names and a subdued drumline beats in time The drums are important. Fear creeps into silent spaces
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The Federal Protective Service cheerfully complains over the LRAD that "officers are being hit with projectiles, lasers, and other hard objects" I've got nothing, y'all
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They're out and gassing hard. So hard. Firing high. I see two people get hit and go down hard. Protesters drag them to the sidewalk
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Gas and casualties https://defendpdx.com/footage/Feds-in-Portland-DHS-Fakes-an-Injury.mp4 …pic.twitter.com/N1EWZt2hKP
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They retreat again. Protesters back to the front, banging on the fence The LRAD warns of unlawful assembly and I swear he sounds cheerful. This is going to be an ugly night and if I said I wasn't a bit sccared I'd be lying. My body remembers what happened to it last Saturday
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They've gone silent for now. People mill, brace thenselves: whatever Part of the line chants "I don't see no riot here, take off your riot gear!"
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Feds back out, gassing 3rd and Main
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A battle of the leaf blowers commences. I can't get good footage: they're shining spotlights directly into our faces, making it impossible to record the things they're doing
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Very few people at the fence now: moms, shield bearers, and one guy who gives zero fucks
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We've got a fed line at 3rd and Salmon. Another line comes up as I type this. Both sides Is it finally a kettle? Is this the night it happens?pic.twitter.com/JzyYhNGsOJ
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Looks like it. Cops in the park also. There's nowhere to go This might be itpic.twitter.com/SSFtUUOVlh
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The trumpeter plays the Sad Trombone sound and it's the funniest shit I've ever heard
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Weird things are happening. The police line closes on us and then melts away. No arrests. Main street gassed. We're trapped but unhar.ed These menacing fellows begin to walk down Main towards 2ndpic.twitter.com/FjZBXs1aYV
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2nd and main gassed. They just stand there watching They are communicating without words. They could hurt us if they wanted to. Arrest us if they wanted to. Aren't we lucky they don't seem to want to? Yet?pic.twitter.com/bxv3Yja5jy
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Here's a close-up of these boys from earlier
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There are so many of them and I don't understand what they're doing other than I guess showing forcepic.twitter.com/n90iPuTxYQ
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There's more press than protesters here at this point so I make my way back to the District Courthouse A small group has returned, mostly the Moms "Stay tight!" one of the mom activists screams over and over, trying to get the chant going Feds inside the fence, facing off
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One of the moms, who is black, is giving these fuckers the lecture of a lifetime They answer with silence punctuated by occasional pepper balls
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These fellows inside the fence look different from people we've seen here before This thing about the Feds going home? Kinda feels like the opposite. It's a fucking Baskin Robbins around here: we've got 32 flavors of feds and then somepic.twitter.com/xmldeyCwFH
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A commotion at 2nd and Salmon . Gas deployed. By the time I get there the protesters are elated. "Yeah, get back in your hole!!" I guess they must have done their " pop smoke" trick They're off to 2nd and Main, where DHS boys await. I like the spirit of this group
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Sorry this is out of order, things are a bit tense We were driven back from 2nd and Salmon. At 3rd and Salmon, we found a larger group of feds engaging a letter group of protesters Here's a video from 2nd and Salmonpic.twitter.com/F9HMGvaF3F
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Currently a standoff at 3rd and Salmon, with the feds between the protesters and the courthouse "What are you? Blackwater?!" "Dear mom, I'm so proud. Today I went to Portland and fucked up a bunch of hippies"
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We've got that green gas Sound on to listen to "Bye Bye Bye" while we get gassedpic.twitter.com/G7gc5vQEeT
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It's ready difficult to follow the thread of what's happenings. Someone threw a firecracker at the feds in 3rd and they gassed us with that green shit and retreated to 2nd and Salmon All I can think is: is Bye Bye Bye by N'Sync or Backstreet Boys?
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The feds retreat into the District Courthouse. Look me in the eye and tell me this isn't the most cyberpunk shit you've seen in your entire lifepic.twitter.com/K9N23KBy43
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Crowd waiting at the garage. Playing Guillotine again. God I love this songpic.twitter.com/dJpv9wMImw
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It's N'Sync, right? For Bye Bye Bye? I'm pretty sure. God I hated that song when I was 13. I was like, that's for little girls, I'm a badass goth chick I like Marilyn Manson and Rammstein Turns out it's all about context (Yes I just dated the fuck out of myself)
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Anyway protesters are pushing in that garage door periodically. As this yields no results people start to wander back up to 3rd St
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Back on 3rd and Salmon. Someone tell Donald Trump that his boys seriously injured this intersectionpic.twitter.com/LdiIkh0E6P
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