1 year agoRemoval of monument. Stonewall Jackson. Richmond, Va
1 year agoPolice have swarmed the CHOP. Area is locked down. Massive cleanup underway. Protesters remaining "subject to arrest." @KING5Seattle
1 year agoHappening now: SPD SWAT vehicle moving into CHOP zone Q13FOX
Seattle Police: It appears individuals are setting off fireworks near Pine/Broadway
1 year ago
1 year agoTons of Seattle police cruisers waiting at 11 and E Pike #CHOP
1 year agoSeattle's CHOP being cleared by police. The Mayor ordered people to leave. Some officers can be seen wearing Riot gear.
1 year agoPeople refusing to leave the CHOP zone are being taken away in handcuffs. Police are moving their way around the blocks of Capitol Hill making their way to the East Precinct where protesters are still refusing to leave
1 year agoCHOP seems quiet now. This mornings operation by Seattle Police appears successful. The East Precinct is reclaimed
1 year agoWalked around to E Pine and Nagle. Cal Anderson fields look to have been mostly cleared. You can see the former core area there in front of SPD East precinct is cleared of people.
1 year agoProtesters leaving restricted area from in front of Memphis City Hall. Only a few remain
1 year agoOnly a faithful few remain in front of City Hall well past the deadline for them to be moved out. Police have already told them they will be attested or face further police action
1 year agoPolice seem to have cleared majority of CHOP. Holding a line at Pike for several blocks.
1 year agoSPD tearing down some tents outside their garage entrance at CHOP behind the police line
1 year agoHere's video as police cleared 12th Ave. after issuing a dispersal order in Seattle's CHOP shortly after 5:00 am.
1 year agoDemonstrators have been moved out of the CHOP zone. Some remain here just outside of it because they're not ready to leave
1 year agoProtesters have started chants CHOP seattleprotest
1 year agoNot a ton of protesters here but a ton of police with their BearCat— one protester being detained inside the police line CHOP seattleprotest
1 year agoSeattle Police were in the city's CHOP area Wednesday morning ordering all protesters to clear the area after Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order essentially declaring CHOP over
1 year agoMore video of @SeattlePD moving people out of the CHOP this morning.
1 year agoSeattle Police have retaken the East Precinct
1 year agoCHOP - Police instructing protesters to leave Southbound on 12th Avenue stating an emergency order effective at 2am. Protesters are not leaving at the moment.
1 year agoCHOP - @SeattlePD has secured the perimeter of the East Precinct.
1 year agoArrests have been made. Protesters are being told to leave or be arrested. Police are being met with resistance. Pepper spray has been deployed. Some protesters did peacefully leave and others are still refusing
At least 10 arrested as Seattle police move into the 'CHOP' Wednesday morning
1 year agoDemonstrators continue to react as Seattle police work to clear out the CHOP zone pushing protesters south on 12th. Some are refusing to leave and we are seeing traffic cones and other objects flung in the air. Other protesters have gathered right outside the CHOP zone
1 year agocone thrown at police. Protestors trying to barricade w toppled porta potties.
1 year agoSPD pushing through CHOP. Saying leave or you will be arrested. Have seen some pepper spray used in front of East Precinct.
1 year agoDue to ongoing violence and public safety issues in the East Precinct/Cal Anderson Park area
1 year agoMore than a half dozen people cuffed and escorted from CHOP in Seattle in the last 20 min.
After issuing multiple dispersal orders to clear the area, officers have begun making arrests at 12th Ave/Pine Street
1 year agoSeattle Police are here at 12th and Pike with riot gear. Protesters are reacting we are seeing many move out of the CHOP zone
1 year agoLarge police prescence rolling up on CHOP telling protestors to clear out and disperse
1 year agoSeattle police have a heavy presence here outside of the CHOP zone. Police are moving barricades
1 year agoCurrent scene at the CHOP. Heavy police presence just showed up.
1 year agoSeattle Police: Due to ongoing violence and public safety issues in the East Precinct/Cal Anderson Park area. Mayor Jenny Durkan has issued an executive order to vacate the area. Seattle police will be in the area this morning enforcing the Mayor's order
1 year agoThe protesters are cheering after some of the policemen left the area. A few protesters made sure no one got too close to the policemen. Officers are still holding a line — it's smaller
1 year agoOutside City Hall in Downtown Memphis, Memphis police telling protesters they need to move now. Protesters are telling officers they have until 7:30. x
1 year agoThe officers have moved back a bit but are still holding the line. Protesters are mostly staying right on the sidewalk of the park:
1 year agoProtesters are singing: "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye."
1 year agoMemphis Police Officers arrive more than an hour and half early to announce to protesters from in front of City Hall. They have until 6 AM to begin moving out
There's a mix of people cheering/honking for protesters and for police officers as they drive past the ongoing standoff
1 year agoPolice officers have arrived en mass
1 year agoMore and more have arrived at Occupy City Hall and are taking back the barriers that protesters made for the encampment
1 year agoHuge standoff out here. Unclear if officers plan to remove protesters from the park, or what the plan is from here after removing most of the barricades
1 year agoEveryone is holding their lines . one protester has a megaphone and is speaking at the officers
1 year agoOccupyCityHall 6:40 AM 1 July 2020 policemen in riot gear who keep trying to charge & take barricades DefundNYPD
1 year agoOccupyCityHall stand off
1 year agoPolice rip down barricade protestors built after rally forms in front of City Hall. Protestors not pleased with the 2021 budget.
1 year agoPolice pushing folks around and stealing a bicycle. Portlandprotest
1 year agoJust after 5am here in NY. Protesters have largely moved into the park and have barricaded themselves inside — barriers are still in place blocking the roads with some people protecting those
1 year agoIn this video you can observe both @PortlandPolice brutality and also @PortlandPolice stealing a civilian's bike before continuing to assault everyone in sight.
1 year agoOnly about a third (if that) of these officers had badge numbers displayed, and not a name in sight.
1 year agoWorkers and a crane are in place to remove the ChristopherColumbus statue outside @ColumbusGov City Hall. @MayorGinther has said the statue would be placed in storage. More details on @wsyx6
1 year agoAntifa has erected a mountain of barricades surrounding New York City's city hall. It's City Hall Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ
1 year agoOUT ON BOND: According to Gwinnett County jail records, former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe is no longer in jail. Rolfe is charged with murder and ten other crimes in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks.
1 year agoPortlandPolice targeting journalists. Here is @Human42LM being arrested for walking across the street. They removed her press badge and cash from her pockets. She is visibly vomiting from countryside gas exposure. Journalist @TheRealCoryElia was also arrested.
NYC passes budget with $1 billion cut to NYPD; City Hall protest continues
1 year agoOfficers actions as police arrest an identifiable member of the press @PDocumentarians near NE Killingsworth and Mallory
1 year agoAnd my semi-chaotic escape a short time later, featuring snack van, rolling dumpsters, & a woman who appeared to be yelling at protesters. I'm no longer on scene, but it seems at least some protesters went to PPB's north precinct where another unlawful assembly was declared
1 year agoSignal was really bad near the Portland Police Association building, so here are some videos taken around 10 p.m. showing arrests, tear gas being launched, and confrontations between citizens and officers
1 year agoShit hurts" a protester says after being hit by rubber bullets
1 year ago"Let's take it to MLK boulevard."
1 year agoPPB just kettled from south and west. no idea what happened to the group—- there's just like 40 officers standing in the road. But here's this video of a PPB officer wiping out
1 year ago"Do not interfere, do not interfere, officers are taking lawful action."
1 year agoPolice continue to push the group further east. Officers holding a line at Albina.
1 year agoProtesters shout, "Say her name, Breonna Taylor." as police face off with protesters on N Lombard Street
1 year agoRioters used a line of garbage bins to block the road and have lit the contents on fire near Lombard and Albina.
1 year agoPolice have pushed the group of rioters left east to Albina on Lombard. Police are telling the group to disperse immediately. Flash bangs happening now.
1 year agoVideo of the push back to Albina shortly before they started bull rushing all around me
1 year agoVideo shows car trying to slow down line of PPB (was later stopped by a zillion officers; outcome unknown) and PPB pushing member of press, causing him to drop his phone and water bottle
1 year agoA few dozen protesters are facing off against police who are guarding their union building in North Portland. Most of the protesters were pushed east
1 year agoPolice telling crowd to go past Albina in Portland
PPB throw smoke and flash bangs and roll slowly back west (actually west this time). NLG grabbed a canister of "sting balls: smokeless rubber pellets" Meanwhile medics are treating a Black person who was shot (less-lethal) directly in the chest, over the heart. He's ok
1 year agoCrowd being told to move past albina or be subject to arrest. Still being declared a riot. LRAD is too loud imo
1 year agoPPB line a block west
1 year agoPolice are using tear gas on protesters.
1 year agoPortland police calling this a riot. This is unfolding on N. Lombard. @PortlandPolice say countryside gas is being deployed.
1 year agoJust got hit in the leg with shrapnel. Seems very superficial
1 year agoLarge number of arrests being made in North Portland tonight at protest
1 year agoBloc dancing to "take off your riot gear"
1 year agoFinishing up the arrests and LRAD is announcing that there's "still criminal activity occurring in the crowd" (haven't seen any personally) so they will probably rush again soon
1 year agoPortland police pushed a crowd away from their union building in north Portland tonight
1 year agoCrowd moving East to avoid gas
1 year agoPolice used tear gas tonight at North Portland protest
1 year agoPortland police declared a riot in North Portland tonight
1 year ago"CS gas is being used. Disperse from the area." @PortlandPolice calling this a riot. several arrests.
1 year agoPolice appear to be moving back after protest / police line blocked interstate exit on Lombard
1 year agoSomeone falls at the feet of PPB. Pretty sure their bike was confiscated. If not, well, lots of other people's bikes were confiscated
1 year agoPolice just pushed back a line of protesters on N Lombard near Fenwick. Several people were arrested.
1 year agoPolice just announced this has been declared a riot. Officers are putting on gas masks.
1 year agoPolice declare protest in north Portland a riot
1 year agoPolice have declared an unlawful assembly on N Lombard Street near Concord. As police made a charge against a line of protesters, a GoPro camera fell out of my waist belt and has been taken as evidence
1 year agoJust got moved back again. Got screamed at by PPB to move faster and wiped out while trying to move fast enough while doing my job
1 year agoChants of "take off your riot gear. don't see no riot here" which has never been more relevant
1 year agoPortland protester being arrested tonight
LRAD says that this has been declared a riot, again. Protester (dressed casually like they just wandered over) says "at worst, we are loitering."
1 year agoGetting marched way eastq
1 year agoPortland police making multiple arrests near their union building tonight
1 year agoYou can see press guy walk by the PPB line
1 year agoPolice are warning that "force will be used against" a crowd in North Portland right
Judge will grant bond to former @Atlanta_Police officer Garrett Rolfe. He will have to wear an ankle monitor and have a curfew from 6pm to 6am
1 year agoProtesters are filling the streets of New York City surrounding City Hall calling on officials to defund the NYPD. The city budget is due at midnight.
1 year agoCOURT VANDALISM: 30 Chambers Street, the Surrogate's Courthouse was covered in anti-police graffiti overnight. It's adjacent to the OccupyCityHall camp.
1 year agoHere's the moment when things came to a boiling point. NYPD removing barricades closing off park behind city hall, which has been occupied by a round the clock sit-in amid demands to DefundTheNYPD since last Tuesday.
1 year agoPolice forcibly removed meta barricades from OccupyCityHall camp and that sparked the clash with protesters. Had been peaceful up to this point. Though police needed to move protesters off of Centre Street.
1 year agoSome photos of the crowd outside the jail: Protestors have set up tents/air mattresses. They say they plan to remain loud but peaceful. Many children are also part of the crowd
1 year agoPolice tell no arrests at this time. Unclear if this man was released.
1 year agoProtestors have set up camp outside of the jail. They say they aren't leaving until community activist Vaun Mayes is released. Milwaukee Police say he was arrested for criminal trespassing related to unrest last week near 40th & Lloyd
1 year agoMoments ago at Occupy City Hall
1 year agoProtester arrested after major clash with nypd outside city hall.
1 year agoNYPD moving @VOCALNewYork protesters off of Chambers Street and back into OccupyCityHall camp, threatening arrests If blocking roadway
1 year agoHundreds of NYPD policemen moving into Chambers and Centre Street for crowd control. Peaceful so far no arrests.
1 year agoElevated view of standoff between protesters and police at OccupyCityHall. Budget is due at midnight.
1 year agoNewYork protesters from OccupyCityHall in standoff with NYPD outside the Dinkins Muni building as they continue their calls to DefundTheNYPD. The budget is due today.
1 year agoSt. Louis police investigating a confrontation caught on cellphone video of white neighbors of Mayor Lyda Krewson pointing guns at protesters marching by their mansion
1 year agoTANK EXPLOSION: Hazmat crews were called to Blue Knight Energy in Gloucester City, NJ after an asphalt tank explosion. Fire is out. Smoke rising from the area of the tank. Crews still on scene. @FOX29philly
1 year agoNew York turned out for a violin vigil for Elijah McClain at Washington Square Park tonight (and every person I saw was wearing a mask)
4 year agoAnti-Trump rally marching from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower. They're now heading to Times Square
