Tonight 9/18 I am at a gathering at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in SW Portland for #BlackLivesMatter as the city celebrates rain and resumes #PortlandProtests
Current speaker: “Now is the time, this is the home stretch!...Say her name : Breonna Taylor!”
This march is to ICE current chant: “no cops, no prisons, total abolition!”
Federal officers have made an announcement about the possible use of chemical weapons and crowd control munitions
“No borders, no nations! Abolish deportations!”
I wonder if the Feds know that every time they make an announcement it is completely drowned out by chants and music
Some of the chants are referencing the recent discoveries of eugenics style medical procedures performed at some ICE facilities msnbc.com/all-in/watch/i…
The musical choice of “immigrant song” is inspired
Current chant: “How do you spell NAZI? DHS!”
DHS rushes immediately arresting 2
There are only various varieties of federal LEOs currently but I hear what sounds like DJ LRAD
Feds withdraw south to ICE as the PPB announces that this is an unlawful assembly and we should disperse to the north ( where the LRAD is)
At this point nothing had occurred beyond chanting at the building
The second push, line is now at half a block North of the ICE facility
So these guys do not have any insignia that I can ID and their markings that say “police” are reflective but otherwise invisible as shown by my no flash/ flash pictures
This on the shoulder is all I can see that may be an insignia
Federal LEOs have pulled back almost to ICE so I predict that the Portland police are almost here
Looking again zoomed in I guess this is ICE? @1misanthrophile says “us soldiers have more ID than that”
This weird interaction
Another push and lots of gas
A small group with umbrellas holds the line for the back
Federal officers are once again lined up on SW Lowell and just unloading on the shield wall. It is smoke that is thrown back at the end
More gas as the feds move up another block
Line still holding with at least a hundred people behind them as the gas clears
A bunch of smoke set off at the protesters
In a cloud of smoke and gas the Feds use (since the PPB is not supposed to) police from both agencies rush the shield wall.
Seems like PPB makes the arrests (at least 4) while feds hold the line and lay down gas for them
Really don’t understand how the situation need you to bring a paintball gun and a silenced rifle. Seem like
Meanwhile a block away a fire hydrant is leaking
If you need a paintball gun then the m4 is unnecessary. If you need a rifle what the hell would paint balls do?
And while I was looking at that the police cross the street and threaten to arrest a person in a wheelchair
The person in the chair is yelling at police: “you want to accuse me of opening a fire hydrant?! What’s next, you going to accuse me of climbing stairs? Dunking a basketball?!”
After circling the park 3 times where protesters had regrouped the PPB drove away. Protesters march back to ICE.
Protesters resume yelling insults at ICE. 2nd photo is roof feds.
A better view from the other side of the tear gas
On the street
But the feds hate dancing
Feds go back in their building and protesters go back to singing and dancing in the street
Back out again. DHS must REALLY hates music.
That chase a person down
Another push by feds. Can anyone catch the patch on the camp guys?
Best patch photo I can get
This dhs has a thin blue line patch
While a line of feds is still holding up the street Portland police arrest another protester by the park
@1misanthrophile catches DHS punching the person they are arresting in the head
Feds withdrawal in a overly dramatic cloud of colored smoke and tear gas like a militarized wicked witch of the west
The feeds have only been setting off copious amounts of tear gas a couple of blocks away from the ICE building. This journalist wonders if it is because they don’t want to fumigate this building the way that they did the federal courthouse
And an ambulance just left the ICE building so they messed up someone
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