1 year agoAssisted @PortlandPolice with removing trespassers from Chapman and Lonsdale parks. Both parks are badly damaged and will need extensive restoration
1 year agoAt least one arrest outside the Multnomah County Courthouse, with police tackling somone on a bike. At 5am, PPB declared the parks outside the federal courthouse and Justice Center closed, even to journalists.
1 year agoPortland Police officers knock a protester off of his bicycle and arrest him outside of Lownsdale Square Park near the Federal Courthouse downtown
1 year agoA statue in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs was found damaged this morning. The statue commemorates union soldiers of the civil war who fought on the side to end slavery
1 year agoSeeing some arrests happening in Lownsdale Park in downtown Portland. Portland Police have cleared Lownsdale and Chapman Square of protesters, near the Federal Courthouse.
1 year agoPortland Police say that both parks by the Federal Courthouse have been cleared. Still a group of protesters gathered on SW 4th and Salmon in Downtown Portland
1 year agoPolice say everyone has left Chapman Square Park and Lownsdale Square Park. Officers have taken at least two people into custody
1 year agoAfter a series of small incidents of infighting, peace and calm has returned to CLAT. Law enforcement has remained silent thus far tonight, and the crowd remaining here are quietly enjoying conversations or listening to music
1 year agoThe bonfire grow larger. The crowd have gathered around.
1 year agoSomething sung to the tune of Nelly's "Hot In Herre."
1 year agoAnd they're having themselves a little flag burning.
1 year agoNightly fire at the former base of the stag statue. It is extra hot tonight.
1 year agoThe area is clear and the last person that refused to leave Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park arrested.
1 year agoWhile a fed pulled out real aggressive he pulled a gun on us and scanned with it. He almost hit someone.
1 year agoArrests are starting to be made so far no one has refused or resisted arrest. They are also joined by the @monroesheriffny
1 year agoPolice are still on court street there is about 4 For people inside of the circle officers have made around them.
1 year agoPeople are really gathering at this spotlight
1 year agoThere is a laser vs flashlight fight going on.
1 year agoLight shining down from federal courthouse
1 year agoAbout 100-150 people have gathered near the Justice Center & the Federal Court building off SW 3rd. Speeches are underway and some barricades were placed in the street earlier by protesters.
1 year agoA small portion of the speeches being given on 3rd and Main
1 year agoThis speaker asks for prayers and energy for Donavan LaBella, the protester feds shot in the head:
1 year agoSeveral hundred people at SW 3rd & Main in Portland, Ore. tonight. Seemingly more numbers than last night, their chants louder and more focused than other nights
1 year agoA crowd forms around some people giving speeches at 3rd and Main
1 year agoPeople giving speeches, about 100-150 here
1 year agoThe Rochester Police Department is blocking roads and staying in the area as close as possible.
1 year agoThey are chanting they are marching all night long.
1 year agoEast Ave and Union St Rochester
1 year agoRochesterNYPD blocking traffic as the group continues to march. They were just at East and Alexander chanting "out of the bar, into the streets." headed east on East Ave through Union St.
1 year agoThey are marching down Monroe Avenue and other bystanders have joined the march.
1 year agoProtest at MLK park in Rochester New York after Mayor Lovely Warren placed an executive order ban on large public gatherings after 11 P.M.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signs sweeping police reform legislation into law
1 year agoHundreds of Back The Blue supporters outside Seattle City hall supporting @SeattlePD.
1 year agoMilitarized Federal Agents from a patchwork of outside agencies have begun policing Portland (in rented minivans vans) without the explicit approval of the mayor, the state, or local municipalities.
1 year agoPres Trump announces that Federal Govt has indicted some MS-13 leaders on terrorism charges. "That's a first," he says, asserting it gives prosecutors extra strength against the gangs. Calls MS-13 a "vile and evil gang of people."
1 year agoPolice removing barricade at S.W. 3rd.
1 year agoOfficers marching down Third Ave, not Salmon. Here is them dismantling a barricade 3rd and Madison amidst teargas.
1 year agoAmidst teargas, officers dismantle a barricade on Salmon and Main.
1 year agoFederal officers marching down Salmon Street, using stun grenades, pepper bullets, and lots of teargas.
1 year agoAbout 20-30 people are outside city hall protesting. One person told me they just came from Mayor @LydaKrewson's home.
1 year agoTeargas thrown by Federal Officers fills the Portland streets on Wednesday morning
1 year agoAt 3:53 AM Teargas is used in the streets of Portland.
1 year agoThe rest of the vehicles and federal officers seemingly leave. As we will see, this is not actually the case.
1 year agoSome officers with gas masks came out of the building those two unmarked vans went into.
1 year agoCloser up look at some of officers out in the streets
1 year agoMore vehicles and some officers head out. One officer decides to shoot some pepper bullets at people.
1 year ago@PDocumentarians and @hungrybowtie were both there for tonight's late tear gas and shooting
1 year agoWednesday Morning Tear Gas and Federal Officers Thread. Feds we're spotted with the vans they have been riding in to arrest people.
1 year agoIf you've heard rumors about people getting snatched in minivans, they are true.
1 year agoThe crowd is very tense right now. Here is some footage of what happened
1 year agoThis is the new barricade on Salmon
1 year agoA Black protester started a fire on Salmon. You can hear other Black protesters arguing with the fire starter in this video
1 year agoAnd then they jumped back on their riot van and left
1 year agoMoved to Madison because there are some camo police peeking over this wall
1 year agoPortland's 2nd attempt at their own CHOP is underway
1 year agoA little fire at the former base of the stag statue. About 150-200 people in the area still
1 year agoWould you like a barricade tour This one is on Salmon. "F**k RCJ."
1 year agoCaptured one of them with some light behind them so it's easier to see
1 year agoSpotted some feds hiding in the bushes of the Wyatt federal building. I have the video centered on an arm of one of them who decided to go super stealth mode when he noticed me recording
1 year agoMost people are in the parks hanging out and having a chill evening. Some barricades came up. Protester on megaphone is is telling feds to release protesters, calls charges based on entrapment, calls for charges to be dropped against protesters
1 year agoFederal police came out and arrested one person, protesters tell
1 year agoAbout 250 people in the parks and street around the Justice Center. Some folks giving speeches on a megaphone.
1 year agoCrossed paths with this small crowd, on my way to the downtown protest at the Justice Center. They were in Pioneer Square and they're marching east, across the Morrison bridge
1 year agoA small march from Pioneer Square just arrived and is occupying the section of Main Street between the Justice Center and Courthouse
1 year agoThread for the Tuesday July 14th protests in Portland. at Lownsdale Park, across from the Federal Courthouse and Justice Center.
4 year agoAnti-Trump rally marching from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower. They're now heading to Times Square
