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I get down and film conflicts that are almost conflicts but do not, thankfully, become violent Meanwhile, the protest takes off around the block I have been told that a far-right demonstrator maced someone and then got maced in the face but cannot confirm first-hand
The far right forms a cordon so no one can film them treating their friend for macepic.twitter.com/oNNtS3fmCX
The journalist with the Trump hat and can of mace goes to talk to the cops parked a block away. Comes back with a bottle of what I assume is eyewash solution for mace How the fuck are you gonna bring mace but not eyewash?! Poor planning. Lucky their friends were here to helppic.twitter.com/3HeXDfcDwM
A dialogue between the maced dude and @2lesslegs
Someone above keeps dumping water on the far right to uproarious cheerspic.twitter.com/qwOn0EWw64
They are leaving. The counter-protesters serenade them as they gopic.twitter.com/GaFUWGp2V9
Sorry, out of order: just before they left the water-throwers dropped a smoke bombpic.twitter.com/OjU5o5iypT
The far right has left some of their buddies behind. Scattered escalations that don't quite erupt into violence. Nothing worth posting
The people above drop more smoke bombs. Water bottles also starting to droppic.twitter.com/k3DAxsV9vr
There are like 3 people left and it would be super cool if they left so I could also go. I'm craving orange chicken something fierce They're getting periodically pelted with stuffpic.twitter.com/Son4G8SOuG
Well everything just went to shit. A counter-protester snuck up to try and steal a can of mace off the belt of a far right protester. Huge hairball of a fight. I'll post but I need to blur faces Now the cops are coming. Cool
The far right leaves past the cop barricade. Now they're hanging out/hiding behind thempic.twitter.com/4PUiYG5RGj
The BLM protesters observe that two of the police are wearing that P hat the Proud Boys also like to wearpic.twitter.com/jDMdSbIhJz
A rare daytime performance of DJ LRAD. Get out of the street or face arrest It's a little confusing since the cops are blocking the whole street
The cops stop blocking the street and hang out on the side so the counter-protesters can yell at the remnant of the far right rally and can we all just go home maybe?pic.twitter.com/8UtmVOeFAr
A truck with a speaker straped to it exposes the George Soros-Mike Schmidt connectionpic.twitter.com/8djcjE0wuV
The far right protest escorted out piecemeal. Various fights. Macing. Shit thrown My battery is at 5%, I'll upload footage at home. But I gotta tell you this is real depressing. Today is not a PR victory for the left And yeah, that matters At least no one got shot?
Currently following behind the last few far-right protesters as counter-protesters shout NAZIS GO HOME!! They finally climb into the back of a pickup and leave in a rain or water bottles I think it's over!pic.twitter.com/pp2MUNlfJK
Nope The journalist with the mace and the Trump hat drives by to pick someone up. A counter-protester breaks his driver-side mirror Shouts for a medic. Not sure what happened there
I am home. Footage eventually First, I will eat my body weight in Orange Chicken
Far be it from me to suggest that someone might be fake press, but I have questions:https://twitter.com/PNWResistance/status/1312920871200194560?s=20 …
(Still working on footage but HUGE shout-out to everyone who just donated to my orange chicken experience, all of you are beautiful and I love you very much)
There may be less footage than originally promised. Unfortunately most of my rolling-fight footage has just...so many faces. I could blur them manually but it would take all day and probably all night too.
To get an idea of what the last bit of the rally was like, imagine a 10-minute walk through downtown Portland with the far-right and counter-protesters screaming back and forth at each other Doing that thing where confrontations almost but don't quite become fights
At one point, a confrontation threatened to turn violent and a counter-protester sprayed mace at a far-right demonstrator. The demonstrator was not hit, though a counter-protester did walk through the cloud of mace and required some medical attention
The far right piled into trucks and drove away. Well, they tried. One man nearly gets left behind here:pic.twitter.com/SzcSBb5gMr
As another group left, one of these self-proclaimed first amendment activists informed the press that they should, like, stop exercising their constitutional rights. Or somethingpic.twitter.com/f4zu1SGFCx
That outburst is especially interesting since I'm pretty sure that's the same guy I interviewed at the start of this rally Currently uploading that to this thread:https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1312946216083234816?s=19 …
That's about it for me! What a silly day this turned into Have an excellent evening
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