Maybe 75 out here? People keep trickling in Someone tells jokes over the megaphone "What language do cops speak? Pig latin!" " Why do cops get up early? To beat the crowd!" "What do you call a group of pigs? A precinct!"
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Hello, starting my live-tweeting evening at Laurelhust Park, where, like any summer evening, people are hanging out in the fresh grass. Just, a lot of them are wearing black tonight
#portlandprotests #pdxprotest #blacklivesmatter
#police #acab #portlandprotest #PortlandRiots
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Maybe 100 people now. People starting to get up, get ready
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An activist gets on the megaphone and conducts a vote for the destination. The crowd offers possibilities, discusses amongst themselves, then votes overwhelmingly for...well, I'll tell you when we get there!
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The crowd moves off to a somber, beautiful rendition of "Bella Ciao": chanting and ready for whatever the night may have in store
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And we're here! You probably already guessed: it's the MSCO againpic.twitter.com/jb7tPEnQsq
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Protesters standing in the street while the police stand silently by A protester confronts then with a story of police brutality experienced on father's day Chant: "Quit your job!!" Reports of an additional cop car waiting nearby
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I wasn't here on Saturday, but there cops seem less inclined to immediately jump to brutality. Only a handful of them, they seem pretty impassive Doesn't mean they're going to stay peaceful, obviously, but I don't think it's gonna pop off right awaypic.twitter.com/2mgw1MV1to
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Some people perceive gatherings like this as purposefully stirring up trouble. Not quite. It's a bunch of people exercising their right to demonstrate in a nonviolent way. Yes, they know it will antagonize the cops. That's the entire problem, and it's a problem worth highlighting
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Chant: "Every City, Every Town! Burn the Precinct to the Ground!"
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The crowd transitions to "black lives matter." A very mellow affair so far. Not a single item thrown that I've seen. Just standing and chanting. A shield wall stands at the front of the crowd, just in case
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An inflatable piggy on the road before a stone-faced riot coppic.twitter.com/92TP2cJq9V
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A group of people splits off to chant at the second parking lot entrance. There really aren't enough people to do this responsibly but on the other hand things DO seem mellow, so why not?
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We've got the first LRAD announcement of the evening! Apparently SE Precinct is not open to the public, and if we trespass we could be subjected to the usual indignities The INSTANT I loosen my gas mask, I might add
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We have an LRAD accusation that protesters have thrown objects at officers Have protesters on other dates thrown things at officers? Yes Have I seen it tonight? I have not
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A protester at the front persistantly demands to know if individual officers killed Patrick Kimmons. Quanice Hayes. Keaton Otis "All of you should say yes! All of you are responsible!" A single water bottle sails over the crowd and lands at the officer's feet
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New (to me) chant: "All night, all day, till the cops go away!" The street echoes with the squealing of 100 tiny pig squeaky toys
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Nothing much to report. Chatting with
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A protester flees at top speed from the precinct. I'm told he tried to take the flag down. An officer pointed his crowd control weapon directly at him, and he fled The officers preemptively remove the flag themselves "Do you need a lighter?" someone askspic.twitter.com/i63WOsMCRv
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"Cops do not reciprocate oral sex! I repeat, cops do not reciprocate oral sex!" A round of boos from everyone
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A protester moves forward and shines a flashlight--not a laser--at the cops. The cops move backwards and the crowd cheers. The protesters edges forward, towards the line separating the sidewalk from precinct property...then thinks better of it and melts back into the crowdpic.twitter.com/3og2lnX7j1
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"do you make your wife roleplay as a protester before you beat her?"
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A mattress has appeared! The
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I think I hear the LRAD but they have it turned down so low I can't hear it over the movement I guess they'll say it again if it was important Or even if it wasn't
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They turn up the volume and tell the protesters to stay off precinct property or else crowd control munitions arrest etc The LRAD is now down Burnside instead of within the precinct proper
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The LRAD retreats down the street A couple Portland Moms just showed up!
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They strike like vipers. No warning, no declarations n of unlawful assembly. An arrest by the precinct
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