Ok there are a LOT of fireworks. This isn’t necessarily true every night, but tonight the people setting off fireworks are white.
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Join me, your host, Lindsey Smith, for an elk-free evening of direct action, fireworks, and unidentified men with guns. It's Thursday night, baby!!!
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Also as I biked up, a white protester was following around an
@ACLU_OR observer and saying, “Do you help us or do you help the police?” over and over.Show this thread -
Tonight the JC is wearing white plywood and the federal courthouse is wearing...nothing.
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The group is on SW 3rd chanting, “No justice, no peace! Take it to streets and fuck the police!” It’s a lively crowd!
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I’m noticing that members of the press are VERY clearly identified, as per today’s injunction.https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1278845673757011968 …
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PPB will be pleased to learn that the elk statue has been replaced by a live white man.pic.twitter.com/uaTUDXa5Q9
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There’s a brand-new, double-headed security camera mounted on the plywood above the steps of the JC. Can you see it in this excellent picture I took? (Better photo quality coming tomorrow, thanks to some very generous tippers.
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Speaking of tips, my Venmo is Lindsey-Smith-55 and my Cash App is $LindseyPSmith7 but, as I’ve been known to say, you literally don’t have to.
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Black protesters are trying to give speeches on the steps of the JC, but it’s hard to get a word in with all the fireworks.
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These are on the poles around the park. They say, “BLM here to stay,” and “Police you are fired.”pic.twitter.com/80ZQ7ihBvr
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A white person with an acoustic guitar (day ones, what’s up) is playing a goofy rendition of “Fuck Ted Wheeler” and “ACAB” and people around them are giggling.
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I went to the bathroom (bless you
@PCS_Armory) and this PPB car was hanging out at Madison and 6th.pic.twitter.com/RH75kZSxb9
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There’s a fire and fireworks at this monument, which from August 1900 to July 2020 was the home to the big deer statue, which the Exalted Order of Elks once called “a monstrosity of art.”pic.twitter.com/TYoF2vjIp9
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People are using hammers to take plywood off the north side of the JC. PPB shot protesters with pepper balls last night for removing plywood from the federal courthouse.
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Four cops came out to look at the place where plywood had been removed.pic.twitter.com/IFntEEqiNJ
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And then they went back into their hidey hole (cc
@carinnanik who thinks she invited hidey hole).pic.twitter.com/Gnm2WePunXShow this thread -
PPB and federal police I think are shooting without warning out of the federal courthouse.pic.twitter.com/Us0T9py0vb
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PPB sound truck tells people to leave “area near JC and courthouse” because some people are throwing fireworks or they’ll use crowd control.
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This was the umbrella contingent a minute ago at the courthouse. Now most people are at 3rd and Main and PPB is telling them to leave because of criminal activity.pic.twitter.com/wtkZwjIH3O
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Dumpster fire alert
the crowd is big! More than 200 maybe.pic.twitter.com/S8Qn6Z8U1ZShow this thread -
Chants of “Whose streets? Our streets!” at 3rd and Main.
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Camo police arrest a protester and take their skateboard.pic.twitter.com/tCIoNZICTA
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