Thread by @William08640111

City of #Portland #Oregon found in contempt of court for violating federal court ruling on use of tear gas and other munitions against protesters
opb.org/article/2020/1…
Police violated this federal court order 3 times on one day alone in late June not to mention many other days.

https://twitter.com/conradjwilson/status/1333692966301417475?s=19

It's especially concerning when video from early days of massive #PortlandProtest demonstrate significant but openly peaceful actions & not until after chemical & other crowd control weapons are deployed do we see widespread violence at these protests

https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1332501491282636800?s=19

It's not only that chemical & other crowd control weapons were used in #PortlandProtest but that chemical weapons were abused to a point where bystanders in buildings who couldn't vacate were being directly effected despite building filters

https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1331004741229408259?s=19

#PortlandJail

#PortlandProtest against police violence & in favor of #BlackLivesMatter drew historic level of violence by Portland police even past that point of being (in contempt of court)

https://twitter.com/portlandmercury/status/1328478595228921856?s=19

Daily breaches of federal court ruling on over-use of tear gas + other chemical & strategic violence is less concerning in itself than those long reaching conscerns which these flagrant abuses of law & violence will bring to this region.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1334159668210503685?s=19

Many businesses & citizens had already left the downtown area of #Portland due to increasing hostilities & lack of response to immediate conscerns yet now this has become an increasingly disproportionate burden on those businesses which remain to clean up

https://twitter.com/MarkKirchmeier/status/1334599565937401860?s=19