[Thread] There has been alot of assumptions and misinformation about racial demographics of #PortlandProtests, as well as right wing propaganda claiming "violence" is being allowed by the DA. First I'll address race...
2/In this very white city, only 6% percent of Portland is Black, but 10% of arrestees are black. Portland Police have also been labeling POC as white. This means that even at protests against racist policing, black people are disproportionately impacted.
3/ This also shows there aren't a lack of black folks protesting nightly. 75% of charges are for things that have nothing to do with property damage or violence. This means cops are mainly arresting people for protesting (calling it interfering, disorderly or failure to obey).
The Feds have only moved the fencing in on the South side of federal courthouse. #PortlandProtests
Speaker started on Justice Center steps, about 40 people so far, more trickling in. Word a white SUV (maybe suburu) drove by and yelled "yall should get shot." #PortlandProtests
New Elk erected after Patriot Prayer affiliates stole the nightmare elk. The original elk is safe in storage. Word is it will be erected somewhere else, but unconfirmed chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchit…
[Thread] Last Night's #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020#DayOfRage & Police CopAganda. PPB reporting that there was an undercover Fed. While this isn't surprising, there is always a chance this is being used to make everyone suspicious of eachother. And if Feds were in the crowd...
2/they were likely participating in riot. Police also claiming shots were fired into bar at protest. Sorry, gunshots don't go unnoticed. Portland police were totally absent for hours until after statues were toppled. The night before they arrested 26 for standing in a crosswalk..
3/Police claim to be busy with man with gun in SE. They have 900 full time cops and only a couple dozen are on the Rapid Response Team. The 911 call for man w/ gun was made at 645pm according to @pdxpolicelog, statue was downed around 9pm...
The Police Bureau found the strike to the head was “not intentional” and therefore not considered lethal force and the Independent Police Review office viewed the strike as a “push,” Rosenbaum noted in his report. oregonlive.com/crime/2020/10/…
DOJ settlement requires use of force report for each incident and supervisor to conduct after action review.The city’s Independent Police Review office, which had received 550 police use-of-force data reports from protest-related cases but one after-action oregonlive.com/crime/2020/10/…
"The bureau had completed only nine of the 19 four-day annual, refresher training sessions when training was halted in spring.
The canceled training means 485 officers haven’t received the required eight hours of use-of-force training needed for state certification..."