It's worth noting that the police are still horribly outnumbered, which means this gas mask is going to become one with my face tonight Horribly outnumbered, everyone I cannot overstate how outnumbered they are
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It's amazing how much more comfortable a gas mask seems after it saves you from massive clouds of tear gas multiple times. I could wear this all day. I may never take it off
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Every time you hear the "this is what democracy looks like" chant on a livestream know that I'm quietly losing my fucking mind. Every time. Every time This is what a dystopian hellscape looks like
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Marching down 122nd: a major road. Cops blocking some of the residential streets but not charging or LRADing currently
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Some angels sent directly from heaven just handed out Otter Pops That's Otter Pops: official sponsor of
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(my love affair with this gas mask does not allow me to partake, tragically)
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Two groups unite!! The other group is about the size of ours, so we're probably 500 strong now? Maybe more Someone's playing Rage Against the Machine. It's good
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Unless the cops have more reinforcements than we've seen so far, the cops are Once again Horribly outnumbered
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DJ LRAD back, reminding everyone that this is still a riot and ordering the crowd to move back to the East The direction they want us to go changes often, I notice
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Riot line forming. See you on the other side of the push
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Cops push, then charge. Takedowns and arrests again
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A cop shoves press to the ground
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Pictured: yet more tear gas and, I think, the snack ban getting its tires popped again Not pictured: what democracy looks likepic.twitter.com/CCymGDnD68
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My gas mask is doing its best and it's best is, increasingly, not good enough. My kingdom for a fresh filter Coughing and wondering why I never took up smoking.
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Another charge. Anyone who falls is arrested
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Police try to stop press from making an arrest. I've found that the best strategy for a reasonably buff 5'8" person is to just ignore these instructions and keep filming. They're like sharks. They can smell fear. Don't show any and they ignore you It's worked so far anywaypic.twitter.com/uG0ibyMxWZ
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Police push protesters past Ventura Park Elementary School, more tear gas used. Then a retreat Seems not cool to use tear gas near an elementary school where kids play in the grass and shit but what do I know
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Then, the police retreat back down the street. Form up by the elementary school Just standing here now, waiting to see what happens next I guess. Protest pretty well scattered againpic.twitter.com/i18CCF1CLY
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Another double time push. Not a lot accomplished that I can see. Reports of them going after press, I didn't have a good view DJ LRAD sounds exhausted as he tells the crowd to disperse to the North Cops currently standing in a riot line and catching their breathpic.twitter.com/SKL2OjFy8n
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This happened about 15 minutes ago and I didn't have time to upload it but sound on for somone absolutely letting the cops have it with both verbal barrelspic.twitter.com/BgL5KARxEw
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The cops keep rushing forward without warning to try and arrest one of the dudes yelling at them He keeps running faster than them It must be very frustrating
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@MildlyAutistic is in high form tonight "None of you know how to cook meatloaf! You wash your cast-iron skillets with soap! Y'all look like the kind of n***** who ride a horse with both feet on one side! You look like you buy lift kits just to crawl over speed bumps at 1MPH!"Show this thread -
"All you motherfuckers look like you would have told Sigourney Weaver not to worry about the alien! You look like you have no idea what the Bechdel Test is" "All of you look just like the motherfucker who gave me a TBI"
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Trying to rejoin the march. A riot van zooms past me on 117th and Taylor
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By the way if you're looking for info on what's happening while I wander around trying to find the march, check out
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Cops blocking traffic on Market and 119th
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I have rejoined the march! Still a very good-sized crowd.
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The protest has, once again, encountered DJ LRAD, who says the usual stuff. At a certain point in the evening it becomes repetitive to the point of boredom and I have officially reached that point The dispersal location is East now
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Protesters direct traffic through the protest as the protest waits to see what happens with the cops up aheadpic.twitter.com/Rqs2DxMOwy
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The protest decides to be water--or soup--and vanishes into the residential streets
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A riot line greets us at Ventura Park and pushes to the intersection by the elementary school Then they fire gas and blast with impact munitionspic.twitter.com/MbDcImCfCX
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The police leave. The crowd pauses Eventually, "Bella Ciao" begins to play and the crowd begins to move, clapping and singing along
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As the protest moves through the elementary school playground, people in black bloc pause to swing on the swings, slide down the slides It's great
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