Boy howdy it's a lot of riot cops tonight The activist on the megaphone reminds the crowd that they will rush. To be prepared. To pick up the megaphone if he goes silent and keep this goingpic.twitter.com/PeYKFeSmNB
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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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Another massive rush and more mass arrests. I didn't get any good footage but I think
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They keep talking about "targeted arrests," which seems to mean "targeting whoever's easiest to catch." Getting reports that they're doing that thing again where they arrest everyone in an area who isn't press
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Back at the PPA, where the cop line and the protest have both thinned considerablypic.twitter.com/Bxl7ewjbWd
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There's an extremely small group of protesters and they're all heckling the cops "Cops don't know where Wyoming is!" "Cops use Netscape Navigator!" "Cops liked the Star Wars prequels!"
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Cop line has retreated. I think the night is winding down
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I'm back at my car and heading home. Wow that was a lot of arrests Solidarity with everyone still out here!
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