A facilitator gets on the megaphone and discusses the now-common knowledge that the police are waiting for the group, in force, at the PPA What to do? Plans are discussed
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A white car speeds through the crowd. No injuries DJ LRAD commands protesters to move out of their road for their own safety. "Vehicles may not stop for you. This endangers your own lives" Sure sounds like a threat to me
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The threat is not having it's intended effect. The crowd advances forward, still keeping its distance, very much occupying the road Chant: "We Outnumber You!"
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Followed by my least favorite chant: "Show me what democracy looks like!" "This is what democracy looks like" But before I can even begin my customary rant someone corrects it: "Show me what a police state looks like! "This is what a police state looks like!" Yespic.twitter.com/7ws4ibKAI4
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Editorial comment here The protest is doing what it's done for 99 days. It's standing in front of the police, waiting for them to do something For the last 1.5 weeks, "something" has been mass arrests It might be time to try something else
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The Black activist on the megaphone says: "Unless we stand up, they're gonna keep killing us in the streets. That's why we're out here tonight! "If these cops think we're gonna give up, they have another thing coming! We're going to be here every day! Every day! Every day!"
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DJ LRAD keeps repeating his warning, including the part about press and legal observers. Trumpet Guy and
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The crowd parts to allow an enormous truck through. He honks his support Like most protests, this one moves to let vehicles through. The "blocking traffic" charge is as false tonight as it usually is https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1302119765310275584/video/1 …pic.twitter.com/xplgxFSeIC
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Mac Smith gets on the mic "Shit's getting crazy out here. People have died. This is a budget issue, folks! This is a budget issue and y'all over there looking like storm troopers"
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Smith is talking about last Saturday's car caravan. About how the cops allowed 600 pickup trucks to snarl traffic in Portland and threaten lives "We don't want destruction! We don't want this shit destroyed! We want your shit destroyed, we want you to go home!"
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"I will go home when the police are defunded! Tell Ted Wheeler we will go home when you go home and don't come back!"
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That's Mac Smiff, not Smith--sorry about that!
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I'm standing a ways back so I'm not 100% sure what happened but there are some VERY bright spotlights shining from the PPA guards suddenly, and chants of "shame!" I'm standing back here to try and get footage when they rush but that doesn't help for whatever's going on right now
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DJ LRAD sounding off again. Claims of projectiles thrown I have seen some balloons bounced around the crowd, maybe that's what they're talking about
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And we have an unlawful assembly declaration. We are to move West
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"this is the second use of force warning! This is the second warning that tear gas may be used!" It is definitely mask time y'all
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Cops charge and conduct mass arrests--I'd estimate around 10. Drive protesters back with what seemed to me to be smoke and not gas Cops retreat to the PPA. Look at all of them (Arrest footage incoming)pic.twitter.com/IN2pGWgQ2W
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A brutal arrest. It's worse with sound on
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As I uploaded this, another push down Lombard. More arrests. Footage incoming They appear to be retreating, we'll see
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Back at the PPA. I'll try to upload some footage real quickpic.twitter.com/FfG4eCXcPn
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No time to upload footage. Here's what just happened: -Another mini-rush, one arrest -a guy on a bicycle apparently started swinging a hammer at people. The police apparently helped him on his bike and let him go. I caught only the end of this incident
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Please be aware: they are grabbing people seemingly at random. People on the sidewalk. Anyone slow If you are out here you are at risk
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Hammer bike guy is back. He does not appear to be doing particularly well in life. I think he's having a bad time The officers allow him to walk away down the street, then immediately threaten a protester with jail for the exact same thing
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Two arrests from earlier
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Another arrest. notice how they went for the person who immediately complied, jerked him to his feet so they could throw him down again
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As I uploaded that last, cops charged and arrested medics in a truck in the Chevron parking lot. Then they pushed press back so they couldn't video Then they arrested someone in the Heavenly Donuts parking lot and made a line all the way across the street so no one could film
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Medic truck arrest
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"back up, back up, we want freedom, freedom; all these racist-ass cops we don't need 'em, need 'em" As I type this, they begin to retreat back to the PPApic.twitter.com/YBlMDRX4XZ
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Copa retreat, respond to a thrown water bottle with launched smoke canisters. All my footage has faces in it :/ Back to the PPA
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