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“We notice criminal activity occurring in the crowd. If you attempt to breach and enter the PPA office, you’ll be subject to arrest or use of force, including crowd control munitions. Stop criminal acts now and move to the east.”
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Crowd has regrouped on Lombard and Interstate. LRAD appears and reminds the crowd that this has been declared a riot. “Move to the east now.”
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I briefly took my gas mask off and the air is very spicy!!! Reminder that PPB can only legally use tear gas (which I can’t officially confirm they did) if they declare a riot, which they did.
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Crowd is walking in the dark throw residential streets. A white family comes out of their house to offer masks, hand sanitizer, water, or a place to rest. Sort of funny watching them offer paper masks to a bunch of folks in gas masks.
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Crowd chanting “walk fast, don’t run.” People are starting to break into a jog and others are trying to slow them down.
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Too dark to film but police have appeared and are pushing protesters really far into the neighborhoods. It’s super dark but they keep pushing people and yelling at them to run faster. It’s super hard to see all the obstacles in the road/sidewalk.
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I got yelled at to move faster and pushed onto the sidewalk because I was “in the way” but it’s impossible to move quickly on Portland sidewalks in the dark
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Everyone just chased into the highway. Then bull rushed again. This man was thrown to the ground multiple times and is now bleeding badly from multiple wounds on his face. He is dazed and clearly needs a medic but we are still moving away from police.pic.twitter.com/UznvhVkygp
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It was really hard to post for a while because everyone was being chased down very dark side streets, and then chased onto the highway bridge, and then chased off the highway bridge. Here’s being pushed onto the highway.pic.twitter.com/QMwGU9BUvS
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And we are... more or less accidentally ... back at Península Park, where most of these protesters started their evening. (They marched from Peninsula to the North Precinct and then to PPA.)
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Update: OC gas canisters were recovered at the scene on Lombard by the PPA. OC gas is pepper spray, not tear gas (CS gas), but the effects are similar in many ways.
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