Here again at the justice center with a few thousand Portlanders who are protesting for Black lives and against police brutality and the federal occupation of the city. #PortlandStrong #PortlandProtests
@IwriteOK @MrOlmos @TheRealCoryElia @defendpdx and @hungrybowtie are here and @suzettesmith maybe later
The doors of the courthouse are open
Federal LRAD
People are throwing trash over the fence and over the crowd I can hear that there are speeches at the justice center around me “Black lives mater!” Being yelled by the #wallofmoms
“Feds! go home!”
A man is going along the fences yelling “blessings” a Black woman tells him to take that shit somewhere else and protesters resume throwing trash bags over the fence
Doors open
An orange flys past us and hits the fence a mom yells “Hey, that’s the orange I packed in your lunch!” To the crowd of protesters behind her
The crowd
Have I mentioned before how I hate fireworks. Because I do
Everyone behind me is cheering the fireworks for some reason
Snack van!
Tiny baby trash fire
Put out by blessing guy
So my respirator works for gas, but apparently not trash fire smoke?
New tiny trash fire
Fireworks 😕
Fire and tear gas and leaf blowers
Umbrella shield wall
Tear gas as pepperballs rain down. And a leaf blower!
It’s not raining
Some teens have breached the fence. I also got hit by a flashbang. It’s good, I’m fine, wear natural fibers. Videos are loading really slow and I don’t know when I will need to duck again. Here is a car hit by impact munitions
So I am having twitter issues
So much gas. Again.
Putting out gas
Where feds shoot so many flashbangs
A car hit by impact munitions
People inside the fence
Both parks just gassed to the point that you can’t see
The parks surrounded
Phalanx lines up
Shield walk
Shield wall again
The feds advance on protesters
Shields on main
DHS and US marshals advance on protesters and arrest at least one. #PortlandStrong #PortlandUnderSiege
Wall advancing back
Feds go back into the courthouse
Out of downtown
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