It’s the 81st night of protest here in Portland & I am at the Justice Center, where a car full of women who drove here from Florida & Tennessee to preach the gospel just tried to save my mortal soul 🙏
To which I say: good luck, nice ladies! #PortlandProtests
Pivoting, the mother of Patrick Kimmons is scheduled to speak here tonight. The mic is on. Demetria Hester has it
Letha Winston, mother of Patrick Kimmons, who was killed by Portland Police in 2018, is at the mic & she’s furious. Here, she talks about driving while Black
Chilling recollection of her son’s shooting
Justice “by any means necessary” Letha Winston repeats and repeats to an enthusiastic crowd of about 200-250 people here at the Justice Center #PortlandProtest 
Letha Winston, clearly proud of her son, wants you to know there was more to him than his final day. Listen up
“Let me march for Patrick,” she says. Protesters are on their feet.
Gia Naranjo-Rivera, 34, has been at the protests since 5/29. What’s driving her?
“Love. God. My conscience.”
“Love. God. My conscience.”
March has begun, ever so briefly
Ppl are very done with Itchy Trigga. 🎼: “... can we agree to disagree ...”
Demetria Hester, to him:
View of upper floor of the Justice Center rn 👁👁
Demetria is still chanting, still a couple hundred or so people here. A pan:
I think I’ll take a walk around the block
Turns out a Troutdale PD vehicle was unable to enter JC
So police emerged to disperse
Yeah that me
Totally unnecessary FYI
ANYWAY
Here’s the scene now, Demetria is still chanting, there are now flowers and candles for Patrick Kimmons
One more for Patrick Kimmons
Well I’m out of downtown but before I left I did check out an incident near the 7-Eleven where there was an accident & a lot went down but I couldn’t locate an 👁witness so we’re trying to report this out. Feel free to leave info here so we can follow up, thank you & goodnight
Oof quite a scene outside that 7-Eleven as it turns out
Driver of crashed truck beaten blocks from downtown Portland protests oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
Driver of crashed truck beaten blocks from downtown Portland protests oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
And here’s the story from last night’s #PortlandProtest (includes links, context)
Portland marks 81st night of protests Sunday as mother of man shot by police speaks outside Justice Center oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
Portland marks 81st night of protests Sunday as mother of man shot by police speaks outside Justice Center oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
And here, more context/history & don’t @ me about the paywall or bother me abt whether or not something is in a story I JUST LINKED TO 🖐oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
