Sept. 8th #PortlandProtests kick off with short rally, with talks about how transit police are police and stops, tickets and arrests are disproportionately black folks.
Marching under Burnside bridge to transit police office. #PortlandProtest
Cops blocking max and street, march then turns
LRAD announcing to not stand on max tracks or interfere with public transit . I predict they will use this to call protest unlawful.
Protesters than make a whole, and cops stay in the way.
Protesters now moving east to get all the way out of the way. Cops still holding minutes later. March now moving down waterfront #PortlandProtest
Protesters facing off again on other side of building, then move south when LRAD makes announcement. Riot cops back up cops that aren't rapid response, then charge unprovoked, coming back with no arrests.
March keeps moving and cops are claiming only march on sidewalks.
Protesters are being #soup unlike what I've seen
Cops arrest 1 for not being on sidewalk. They push me off sidewalk and then say to get on the sidewalk. Then arrest a #MomsDemandAction because she stopped to yell at cops before moving to sidewalk.
Marched to Justice center, cops announced to get out of street, so crowd is moving to City Hall. Riot cops were gearing up in the back
Dance party in front of city hall
#portlandprotests
Hip Hop performance #PortlandProtesters
Yaya talks about constantly being pulled over, licensed/insured, while never committing crimes. He was arrested recently after car tires slashed and car towed.
Things were chill for atleast an hour with dance and song. Then cops decided to close downtown
Cops chased down black guy tackling him against wall/ground. When they tried to take him, he started puking and having seizure. He was taken out in ambulance. Im assuming head injury. #PortlandProtesters
Crowd marched back and cops came charging grabbing the first person they could grab, not on the sidewalk
Someone crosses street and police chase them down.
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