7 month agoAssisted @PortlandPolice with removing trespassers from Chapman and Lonsdale parks. Both parks are badly damaged and will need extensive restoration
7 month 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.
7 month agoPortland Police officers knock a protester off of his bicycle and arrest him outside of Lownsdale Square Park near the Federal Courthouse downtown
7 month 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
7 month agoSeeing some arrests happening in Lownsdale Park in downtown Portland. Portland Police have cleared Lownsdale and Chapman Square of protesters, near the Federal Courthouse.
7 month 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
7 month agoPolice say everyone has left Chapman Square Park and Lownsdale Square Park. Officers have taken at least two people into custody
7 month 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
7 month agoThe bonfire grow larger. The crowd have gathered around.
7 month agoSomething sung to the tune of Nelly's "Hot In Herre."
7 month agoAnd they're having themselves a little flag burning.
7 month agoNightly fire at the former base of the stag statue. It is extra hot tonight.
7 month agoThe area is clear and the last person that refused to leave Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park arrested.
7 month agoWhile a fed pulled out real aggressive he pulled a gun on us and scanned with it. He almost hit someone.
7 month agoArrests are starting to be made so far no one has refused or resisted arrest. They are also joined by the @monroesheriffny
7 month agoPolice are still on court street there is about 4 For people inside of the circle officers have made around them.
7 month agoPeople are really gathering at this spotlight
7 month agoThere is a laser vs flashlight fight going on.
7 month agoLight shining down from federal courthouse
7 month 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.
7 month agoA small portion of the speeches being given on 3rd and Main
7 month agoThis speaker asks for prayers and energy for Donavan LaBella, the protester feds shot in the head:
7 month 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
7 month agoA crowd forms around some people giving speeches at 3rd and Main
7 month agoPeople giving speeches, about 100-150 here
7 month agoThe Rochester Police Department is blocking roads and staying in the area as close as possible.
7 month agoThey are chanting they are marching all night long.
7 month agoEast Ave and Union St Rochester
7 month 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.
7 month agoThey are marching down Monroe Avenue and other bystanders have joined the march.
7 month 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
7 month agoHundreds of Back The Blue supporters outside Seattle City hall supporting @SeattlePD.
7 month 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.
7 month 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."
7 month agoPolice removing barricade at S.W. 3rd.
7 month agoOfficers marching down Third Ave, not Salmon. Here is them dismantling a barricade 3rd and Madison amidst teargas.
7 month agoAmidst teargas, officers dismantle a barricade on Salmon and Main.
7 month agoFederal officers marching down Salmon Street, using stun grenades, pepper bullets, and lots of teargas.
7 month agoAbout 20-30 people are outside city hall protesting. One person told me they just came from Mayor @LydaKrewson's home.
7 month agoTeargas thrown by Federal Officers fills the Portland streets on Wednesday morning
7 month agoAt 3:53 AM Teargas is used in the streets of Portland.
7 month agoThe rest of the vehicles and federal officers seemingly leave. As we will see, this is not actually the case.
7 month agoSome officers with gas masks came out of the building those two unmarked vans went into.
7 month agoCloser up look at some of officers out in the streets
7 month agoMore vehicles and some officers head out. One officer decides to shoot some pepper bullets at people.
7 month ago@PDocumentarians and @hungrybowtie were both there for tonight's late tear gas and shooting
7 month agoWednesday Morning Tear Gas and Federal Officers Thread. Feds we're spotted with the vans they have been riding in to arrest people.
7 month agoIf you've heard rumors about people getting snatched in minivans, they are true.
7 month agoThe crowd is very tense right now. Here is some footage of what happened
7 month agoThis is the new barricade on Salmon
7 month agoA Black protester started a fire on Salmon. You can hear other Black protesters arguing with the fire starter in this video
7 month agoAnd then they jumped back on their riot van and left
7 month agoMoved to Madison because there are some camo police peeking over this wall
7 month agoPortland's 2nd attempt at their own CHOP is underway
7 month agoA little fire at the former base of the stag statue. About 150-200 people in the area still
7 month agoWould you like a barricade tour This one is on Salmon. "F**k RCJ."
7 month agoCaptured one of them with some light behind them so it's easier to see
7 month 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
7 month 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
7 month agoFederal police came out and arrested one person, protesters tell
7 month agoAbout 250 people in the parks and street around the Justice Center. Some folks giving speeches on a megaphone.
7 month 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
7 month agoA small march from Pioneer Square just arrived and is occupying the section of Main Street between the Justice Center and Courthouse
7 month agoThread for the Tuesday July 14th protests in Portland. at Lownsdale Park, across from the Federal Courthouse and Justice Center.
3 year agoAnti-Trump rally marching from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower. They're now heading to Times Square