Elizabeth Caruthers Park is very close to the ICE building In the past couple days, we have learned that ICE is conducting systemic mass hysterectomies on its prisoners At a certain point, words are no longer enough
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LIST OF CRIMES COMMITTED TONIGHT: someone has written "Fuck ICE" on some plywood in spray paint (which washes off) Someone has hit the side of the building with a soft drum mallet This concludes the list of violent crimes against property thus far
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The crowd advances closer to the ICE building. One protester rattles the gates. Someone else bangs on the walls Chant: "what's outrageous? Kids in cages!" Feds warn people to stop. I assume: it's hard to hear over the chantingpic.twitter.com/6RF6yG5H4K
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An aside: I feel sick looking at this building. I feel sick standing here The idea of an organization, now, today, forcibly removing internal organs from the helpless and nonconsenting, makes me physically ill It makes me wish all kinds of shit I can't say on Twitter
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Back to coverage: The crowd has moved back perhaps 15 feet from the gate, chanting. People donning gas masks The list of crimes has not expanded
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The car barricade moves and honks. Sounds like we've got incoming The crowd braces for impact
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Crowd pushed to Lowell and Moody. A smoke bomb deployed by feds. A few half-empty water bottles thrownpic.twitter.com/W9RZc30uWC
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The Portland Police come up from behind. Declare an unlawful assembly. Tell protesters to disperse to the North. They are standing to the North of the protest Feels kind of kettly around here
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Meanwhile, many of the feds have taken a step back, leaving these charming boyspic.twitter.com/WOkPsVO8O6
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Reports that riot vans are loading up at the JC. Cannot positively confirm this
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Standoff at Lowell and Moody. Someone offers water and snacks. The cops move back half a block. The like remains, but they do not seem inclined to press forward at this time Gas masks very much onpic.twitter.com/XGIIfw7drP
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Fun quiz: find the difference between these guys and deployed American soldiers: -American soldiers wear name tags -They don't wear gas masks to protect against their own munitions, since chemical weapons are banned in warfare -No one wears the fucking codpiece it's embarrassingpic.twitter.com/qC4Io0hHAe
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Feds have pulled back to the intersection in front of the ICE buildingpic.twitter.com/APXoqmf3rQ
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The feds push back farther, then regroup. Standoff continuespic.twitter.com/L1RS5ctclF
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Without warning or provocation the feds let loose a barrage of just fucking everything I've got footage but let's start where we're at now: feds firing massive pepper balls into an empty fucking street:pic.twitter.com/FbZup9PPyQ
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The beginning of the push. Nothing happened to provoke this. They just started shootingpic.twitter.com/Dw9EmnCKIn
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I couldn't tell whether this was tear gas or not, my mask is that fucking good now It was tear gas though. Returned to senderpic.twitter.com/YqMvGuTKPF
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Happening now: they open fire for no reason. Gas the fuck out of everyone Portland Police say some shit on the LRAD but we can't hear over the flash bang and shotspic.twitter.com/2VKjMA8suZ
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Another push. The unbrella and and shield wall braces themselves, shrouded in smoke and gas Screaming "BLACK LIVES MATTER" Defiant. Determined. Committedpic.twitter.com/7iDaGRNDP3
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Massive smoke, mass arrests. Footage to follow. Driven back to Moody and Abernathy
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Gas and smoke deployment, including a green plume I think may have been intended to prevent me filming. Only press was where I waspic.twitter.com/VpbFn59biD
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Feds deliberately force protesters through the smoke and tear gas My new mask is a game changer in situations like these The intent, however, is to punishpic.twitter.com/HB1Q0kUP9h
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The feds march protester after protester through the gas and take them to a line of waiting vanspic.twitter.com/FRfL3ZeN2a
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The Portland Police arrived shortly thereafter with still more vanspic.twitter.com/QPo65dhIsY
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Current status: not a lot of protesters left. Many are regrouping a short distance away but the attrition/arrest level is high. Cops and feds jointly holding the Moody/Abernathy intersection Can't wait to hear how they spin this brutality tomorrow
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Some kind of commotion I missed. An arrest for opening a fire hydrant a block away. Sounds like bullshit, looks like every other press captured it. I'll have to look it up when I get home LRAD deafeningly announces an unlawful assembly and demands Northward dispersal
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Can I please get a W in the chat for Longest I've Ever Gone Without Fucking Up A Thread, I'm so goddamn proud of myself right now (Don't expect this level of professionalism going forward, this is a one-time thing)
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The cops load up on riot vans and leave, going the wrong way down Moody. Must be nice to just break the law like that A tiny police line remainspic.twitter.com/L6z3kljwdx
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The protest has regrouped. More people here than I thought. Scattered by the gas and now reunited They chant "Black Lives Matter!!" and prepare to move
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