We have arrived once again at the PPA. Workers have re-boarded the broken boards from yesterdaypic.twitter.com/h9LI2nMN5m
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The common trashfire--official animal of 2020--spotted in Kenton Park https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1292692419759153153/photo/1pic.twitter.com/plUSTc5ZNW pic.twitter.com/ewmYZQQowl
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People calling for mask on, leaf blowers to the front. I assume that means the police are putting theirs on I'm staying towards the back as part of my new strategy to not get cut off from the protest behind police lines while the cops brutalize everyone
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The police forcibly prevent me from filming an arrest
#DefendPDX#portlandprotests#pdxprotest#blacklivesmatter
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The part at the end of that video is the cop forcibly stopping my phone from recording and trying to throw my phone on the ground. He told me I would go to jail if I didn't stop filming But he didn't arrest me. Because he fucking can't It's intimidation and I'm done with it
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The group has been severely scattered. It was never big enough for this And that's the real reason it's been declared a riot: not because the crowd poses a danger, but because it doesn't. Because it's easy to bully
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@45thabsurdist points out these protesters restoring this actual official road closure barricade after the police knocked them overpic.twitter.com/TYsaLdu1AE
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Official police action. I assume parking is now fine wherever this sign came frompic.twitter.com/H3Q0TQ7lXV
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I really can't imagine this group forming back up. It was so small and it is so scattered I've been wrong before though
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Just spoke to some residents who came out to see what was going on. We explained. They were flabbergasted about the barricade destruction. "Those have been up for weeks for businesses to operate outside. Did they forget about COVID?!" "Well, they don't wear masks, so probably"
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Back at the PPA where there are maybe 20 people. Even the police can't be assed. They speed by. One of them does the shaka shake as he drives by. 3 or 4 police cars, none of them use their turn signal. If only there was some public safety organization we could call about that
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20 or 30 protesters have decided to resume chanting "black lives matter" next to the PPA: an activity which the LRAD immediately reminds everyone constitutes a riot
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I would like to reiterate that this riot constitutes people shouting "black lives matter" and clapping in time to the chant
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Police strike suddenly and with great speed. Many arrests They chase protesters down a side street, then chase. Then back up again. A protester is led away in zip cuffs. "You can't expect me to follow conflicting orders!" he exclaims
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Sound on for this one. Heavenly Donuts is playing "America the Beautiful" while the police make mass arrestspic.twitter.com/l6AAgZiE20
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Heavenly Donuts is now broadcasting an extremely good and informatively speech about Oregon's racist history and how that history mirrors the white supremacy of America as a whole This is incredible
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An NLG rep screams not to talk to the cops and to demand a lawyer Your reminder that the best thing to say to a cop is nothinghttps://youtu.be/7XeJJtgbm2s
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Receiving word that an elderly resident of the Kenton neighborhood was shot in the leg with a paintball round while she tried to restore the legal, official neighborhood barriers that the cops tore down
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Someone throws a glass bottle at the cops. They flag the whole crowd with their weapons. No shots fired. Things remain tense The Heavenly Donuts speaker (which is apparently a protest speaker there with permission) begins to play Amazing Grace
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The police leave. A truly astounding number of cop cars and riot vans head out. Everyone here should be deeply honored at how much of a threat they consider you
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We just heard the LRAD again. Maybe 20 people out here total
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@defendpdx photographer@cdsupriyadi captured this footage earlier of the arrest of a prominent black activist for the crime of using her megaphonehttps://twitter.com/cdsupriyadi/status/1292717276047671297?s=19 …
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@PDocumentarians captured footage of that cop physically preventing me from filming that arrest. It's at about the 20-second mark I'm the dork in the yellow vesthttps://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1292703127053819904?s=09 …
1:03Portland Police executed a dynamic push on protesters through the Kenton Park making several arrests. This enforcement action splintered the protest crowd into many smaller groups.#PortlandProtest#PDXprotests#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/DotlzrSRNTShow this thread -
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I am back at my car and headed home. The crowd has shrunk to the point that saving strength for another day seems sound Solidarity to everyone still out here
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