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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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
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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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