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Somewhere north of 200 people have gathered at Arbor Lodge for the 90th (?) night of #blm protests in #Portland.
“Say his name: #JacobBlake” is the chant as the march moves into the street. Yesterday, Blake was shot in the back 7 times by police in #kenoshawisconsin as his children watched. At last check, he is hospitalised in stable condition.
Jacob Blake is the first *survivor* of police violence whose name I’ve heard chanted in these last 90 days.
Interspersed with the “black lives matter” chant, a brief chant of “Kenosha Is Everywhere!”
The police association has a new decoration “Abolish PPB”
LRAD arrived. Declared unlawful assembly. That was quick.
Actually, riot. Initial command was to disperse west. Lrad came from the west on Lombard.
A flare outside the building
Immediate teargas
A person gets shoved down and then told to move while being continuously pushed back down
DJ LRAD
3 times now the crowd has met a line and rerouted away from the area of strong police presence. “We don’t need to meet a line and get fucked up!” Moments ago djLRAD, blocking an intersection to the south and east, told the crowd to disperse south and east. Crowd moving again.
While the crowd gets where it’s going, this nice NLG observer let me take a picture of their sweet new green hats. Of the TBI-prevention variety
Someone just proposed a movie night, projected on the front of the PPA. I don’t think these guys would approve.
There are many police still in front of the PPA
And the police withdraw
Too soon, apparently this is still a riot.
Car races up on the barricades, reverses down the street and rushes at it a second time just to stop and turn around. Hello adrenaline
The police make at least three arrests by heavenly doughnuts
Police regroup on the side street, temporarily with less vehicle backup as vans leave with arrestees. Police illuminate protesters and graffiti in front of PPA
On the other side of the doughnut shop i filmed another 4 arrests. I am not posting because of names. @econbrkfst and @Conundrum9999 were messed with too
Some casual brandishing of riot launchers. At least one additional riot van has now returned on the side street.
Another angle of the rush to arrest a heckler in the Heavenly Donuts lot. This individual had been telling PPB that police were descended from slave patrols
Driver returns and protesters de-escalate, he drives away after
The PPB throws some smoke grenades as they leave the area. It is not ok to throw things at the PPB as they leave the area.
The PPB has left again. The vibe is low-key. the PPB clubhouse still has this flag hung on it. We’re headed out, but @MrOlmos and @1misanthrophile are still here for now.
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