Snack Van 2: the Snackenningpic.twitter.com/5MMr7pzQPM
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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
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
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
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
Nothing much to report. Chatting with @PDocumentarians, @45thabsurdist, and @jovannithe1st, waiting to see whether the cops remain nonviolent
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
"Cops do not reciprocate oral sex! I repeat, cops do not reciprocate oral sex!" A round of boos from everyone
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
"do you make your wife roleplay as a protester before you beat her?"
A mattress has appeared!
The @45thabsurdist have long observed a correlation between mattresses and riots being declared. No one knows whypic.twitter.com/PG35wrvVlU
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
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
The LRAD retreats down the street
A couple Portland Moms just showed up! #WallofMoms
They strike like vipers. No warning, no declarations n of unlawful assembly. An arrest by the precinct
#portlandprotests #pdxprotest #blacklivesmatter
#police #acab #trumpsgestapo #momsarehere #PortlandProtesterspic.twitter.com/i38Arvt0tn
Restoring thread integrityhttps://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1290542562147614720?s=19 …
Still can't upload clips, but they maced the moms. Haven't seen a lot of arrests, but lots of assaults Currently, protesters are facing down the cops are 53rd and Burnside using picnic tables as barricadespic.twitter.com/1ma6M368r0
The police have just loaded into their riot car, popped smoke, and driven off
Protesters now back at the precinct. Facing a small line of cops guarding the parking lot. It's groundhog day: just like it was before they struck out of nowhere Except, of course, it isn't. We all anticipate a repeat performance imminently
As we walked back, residents stood on balconies and sidewalks watching Well, except for one couple who was extremely mad at the protesters for waking their children. As though the protesters wanted to sprint 7 blocks to their place while cops maced and beat them
Restoring thread integrity with another video from the earlier bullrushhttps://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1290547444766277633?s=19 …
Protesters brought the picnic tables with them They chant Quanice Hayes' name One of the moms tears the cops a new one for what they did to her earlier. I'm glad she's okpic.twitter.com/BngIQplbLb
Meanwhile, back in the present: protesters and police continue to face offpic.twitter.com/5s9FvyQhkj
We have just received word that one of the DefendPDX photographers has been arrested
Receiving word that the cops are staging
Sometimes it really hits me how much this sucks. I get so swept up in uploading shit, finding the right words. It's always easier to feel feelings later, or not at all
The crowd has started to seriously dwindle
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