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Mac the Rancher 🏁🐍 Profile picture
@MacSmiff
Sep 19, 2020 • 13 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Outside Carathers Park, restaurant patrons enjoy outdoor dinners.

A few blocks away, about a hundred people congregate outside a dimly lit ICE facility.

Gas masks are going on. Image
DHS has 2 men on the roof, plus about a dozen men visible in the parking lot.

Protesters are throwing plastic balls at the steel gate.

DHS gave a 2 minute warning about 5 minutes ago. Image
Videos are NOT uploading. @TheRealCoryElia having the same problem. Lots of smoke out after a series of DHS rushes.

PPD LRAD is now making threats. Unlawful assembly declared.

Word has it a riot van just left the JC. ImageImage
Camo-clad feds with glowing helmets came out shooting all kinds of shit.

They just finished shooting munitions at an umbrella wall. ImageImage
My guy @2lesslegs out here spitting that grade A fire.

We've got a new flashlight guy. Was nice enough to pose for the camera. ImageImageImage
Flashbang went off really close. Just got my full vision back 10 minutes after flashlight guy direct eyed me.

Around the corner a fire hydrant is gushing.

Gas lingers in the air... oh and PPD is here. ImageImageImage
Feds just shot up somebody's car from a while block away.

The theme of the night is definitely weapons free.

In other news, I lost my WOHM cap.
Feds have completely retreated. PPB's turn. Image
When they say the demands were unclear. ImageImage
Everybody back at the ICE Building, meaning basically everything the police did earlier was for naught.

Dude is giving a megaphone speech but I'll upload video later. Image
DHS just shooting everything at everything. Forcing people into corners and making arrests.

A standoff on the corner here on Moody. As I tweet, DHS is defending a public street from live streamers.

Your tax dollars at work. ImageImage
So. Much. Tear gas.

Here's a canister stuck in the streetcar track. Protesters have dubbed it The Can In The Tracks and whomsoever removes it is the true King of Camelot. Image
I am out of S. Waterfront.

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Apr 18, 2022
Sitting here hungry, thinking about the first week of the 2020 protests when I tried to catch a gas canister off the first bounce and it ended up being a flashbang.

I ran around deaf and half blind for a while minute. Shout out to the homies.
We were real traumatized out there. Some of us have yet to recover.
It's hard to explain how watching our nightmares unfold from the hands of our city, state and federal government radicalized us and left us distrustful of everyone.

I truly thought I was going to be murdered by a LEO before I turned 40. And I was OK with that.

Strange times.
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Betsy Johnson has the support of the cops, big timber, the PDX business community and Nike. And when I say "support", I mean she has around $5M in campaign funds and no one else in the governor's race is anywhere near close.

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The founders are Betsy Johnson's advisors.

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Apr 4, 2022
This response is hilarious.

I made zero judgement on people who watch wrestling. Y'all on here making my point while asking what it is 🤣
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America: Where everyone knows the fight is a ruse but we play along anyway because the alternative is actually fighting.
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Mar 29, 2022
Abolishing police without constructing and using publicly accepted restorative justice practices IN REALITY simply leads to increased public support of policing and vigilantism.

We have to create the alternative we want to see. We have to communicate it. We have to model it.
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But if we look at this behavior through an restorative justice lens, what space is created for change? Zero.
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Mar 29, 2022
I think it's weird when people get mad at normal questions in anticipation that the honest answer might damage their worldview.
People get so focused on searching for The Truth that they build and create schools of thought that narrow their perceptions.

This is normally what religion does, but nowadays people just create dogma as we go along.

Thus we always need to clarify terms. Start on the same page.
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Mar 28, 2022
I don't know but when I was in 1st grade, we went on a field trip and some boy pushed me - the only Black boy in the class - into a duck pond.

After being fished out (I couldn't swim) I was forced to forgive the other boy and left to dry off while the other kids played games. 🤷🏾‍♂️
Far worse things have happened since, but I hadn't thought about that in a while and it popped out as the moment I stopped fucking with people.
It was also an early example to me that white people def understand restorative justice when it comes to themselves.

The boy who pushed me never faced any consequence. Later that year, I quit school to homeschool. I don't recall how much this had to do with it. Might ask my mom.
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