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Hi there, I just got back from the District Courthouse, where @JuniperLSimonis documented the uncomfortable number of spent toxic crowd control munitions lying around behind the fence The district courthouse fen...
Some background:

The District Courthouse fence, erected during the Fed War in July, is coming down

A chunk of the concrete barricades supporting the fence have been removed

Last night, Dr. Simonis and others (including @AlissaAzar) noticed a rather prodigious number of...this A corroded canister in the ...Two small round silver cani...A severely corroded silver-...A small grey silver object ...
You may notice that the munitions are corroded

That, Dr Simonis explains, is because the chemicals still within and around the munitions have continued to react. As water flows over the munitions--as it has done all winter--the chlorates react with the metal A profoundly rusted metal c...
"Wait a minute," you might be thinking. "Does that mean that all winter, water has been running over these munitions and washing the chemical reagents and products direct into the storm drains and into the river?"

Yep! A storm drain behind the di...
There's a silver lining to the environmental damage caused by chenically-poisoned runoff; when construction crews moved the barricades they probably stirred up a smaller amount of toxic chemicals then they otherwise would have

Good news for the bicyclists who ride past the fence
(also good news for the courthouse employees who smoke in front of the District Courthouse, though I would recommend maybe NOT smoking out here) A picture of three panels o...
Dr. Simonis and others collected 5 or 6 munitions last night, but couldn't get to the ones behind the fence

So they called BES

When BES didn't respond, Dr Simonis tagged them in a tweet

Then they showed up and took pictures and left

While Dr. Simonis showed me the munitions behind the fence, they found several pieces of "scat"--or "overshot" as the cops call it--on the street side of the fence

These are the cardboard or metal barriers between reagents that keep them separate until the munition detonates A blue gloved hand holding ...A blue gloved hand holding ...
As dire as this all is, it gets worse. A lot of the concrete barricades are still in place

As we walked, we saw munitions visibly beneath them. Looks like the construction crew just plunked 'em down. No effort by the feds to clean up their toxic mess A long silver canister with...A distance shot of the same...
We also found the top section of a triple chaser CS gas munition wedged beneath a different barricade. They tried to extract it but it's just wedged in there too good

So I guess it'll stay there

With water running over it

Until someone decides to do something about it A gloved hand reaches into ...
We also spotted the top of a triple chaser grenade wedged under a different barrier. Dr Simonis attempted to extract it but we couldn't quite get it out

So I guess it'll just stay there

Washed over by rain

Until someone decides to do something about it
Who knows how much other crap is wedged under these barricades

@tedwheeler, @BESPortland, someone, anyone: maybe we should do something about this?
Epilogue: my phone finally decided to upload this video:

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