Johnn Thelefty Profile picture
Research & Report on right-wing extremism. Citizen journalist, photographer, activist, recovering addict, drug policy & criminal justice reform advocate

Sep 12, 2020, 9 tweets

March in route to JDH. Lots of respirators
#PortlandProtests

Gotta have music on a march

March arriving at JDH, there are areas that are taped off.

Multnomah County Sherrif says people can protest, but can't pass tape and have to stay in parking lot.

Mother talking about having to micromanage her kids so they don't get harassed by cops. You can see riot cops in the lobby. #PortlandProtests

Speaker talking about how he went into mill city, Or to help and havnt been called the Nword so many times in 1 day and that he was told to leave. Says, everyone fighting for black lives is antifascist, and if Trump gets elected again they will make all of us terrorists.

He goes on to talk about the black experience and to ask a black or brown person about their life experience. He was told when younger to hide in the bushes if he saw a car coming, because black/brown kids being snatched. #PortlandProtests

Sharing about experience with being discriminated against by teachers in highschool and how he's seen it over and over recently while he's helped black kids. He also says kids are taught racism, and we need to be anti-racist, not just "not racist."

32 minutes of chanting, silence or whatever people choose started. 1 minute for each kid in JDH locked up. #32minutes #PortlandProtest

Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.

A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.

Keep scrolling