Homeland Security making plans to deploy some 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown
7 month agoSeveral lanes are blocked with law enforcement vehicles
7 month agoA large number of deputies including the @MeckSheriff have gathered across the Meck County Courthouse. There are protestors yelling obscenities at them from across the street.
People still remain in Downtown Portland after Federal officers clashed with protesters overnight. The @PortlandPolice says none of its officers engaged in the protest. The Mayor is calling for the federal officers to leave his city.
7 month agoMinnesota State Capitol lawmakers today will try to agree on: Police reform; A $1.35 billion bonding bill and how much of ^that money should be given to help Minneapolis and St Paul rebuild from the unrest; Special session 2 of the summer starts at noon
The Washington Post:12 officers injured, 2 protesters arrested in Seattle as multiple businesses vandalized
7 month agoAn ambulance and fire truck drive past on 4th.
7 month agoPolice shooting tear gas right at protesters Portland, Oregon
7 month agoSome of the riot control muntions that were used on protestors tonight, including some type of chemical smoke and countryside gas (tear gas).
7 month agoAntifa rioters provoked another response from DHS after they started a fire on federal grounds
7 month agoPart of baton was found at Portland protest
7 month agoWho wants to see dystopian footage of federal officers walking past a giant peace sign in a cloud of tear gas
7 month agoProtesters use a traffic cone to extinguish a tear gas canister
7 month agoOne person was taken down and officers are firing A LOT of tear gas into the area
7 month agoAnother tear gas attack and shooting from federal police
7 month agoPolice just arrived as these guys were trying to build up the fire. Had to cut the feed short to run
7 month agoA small fire has started at the courthouse in Portland. An American flag is burned
7 month agoThe fence has been put back up by protesters, but protesters are able to come and go from either side of it. A small fire has been started away from the actual building, near a pillar
7 month agoThere's a small fire on the steps of the federal courthouse
7 month agoSomeone is scaling the Justice Center
7 month ago"Weapons confiscated" (better video later) from the fed/PPB push that dispersed some protesters from the area of the US Courthouse, Chapman and Lownsdale. Protesters have returned to the area. Unsure what's going to happen with all this fencing again
7 month agoAnother video from the first dispersal. A canister of presumably tear gas is thrown back away from the crowd. Fireworks() go off. Smoke billows out of the front of the courthouse
7 month agoThey're putting the fence back up
7 month agoLook at this ptsd on display like this shit is a war. Come on This for protesters, for regular protesters.
7 month agoDocument the "crowd control munitions" when get home, but got another one of those "LOW ROLL" big ones—tossed at me. Sorry, but it's already spoken for after I take better pics at home. First instruction on these: "Visibly clear immediate area of deployment."
7 month agoPortland, Oregon police on the street
7 month agoThe Federal Officers pull back to 3rd Ave. Teargas still fills the streets.
7 month agoFeds continue to launch gas and munitions on the corner of 3rd and Salmon
7 month agoAs the Feds pull back they send copious amounts of teargas into the street. Also a lot of stun grenades and impact rounds
7 month ago5th and Main briefly occupied
7 month agoA guy got shot in the arm with this
7 month agoHeading toward the marchers who have made their way back to Lownsdale Square.
7 month agoParade of people heading back to fed courthouse area
7 month agoDay 53 of protests in Portland, Oregon
7 month agoPeople collecting souvenirs. Flash bang on the left and a couple countryside gas canisters
7 month agoAt least 100 protesters have regrouped at SW 5th & Main.
7 month agoA protester wearing a gas mask picks up trash as feds continue to advance west up to 4th and Main
7 month agoA protestor keeps cleaning in the middle of tear gassing
7 month agoTeargas and stun grenades on 3rd Ave in Portland.
7 month agoFederal police push protesters West on SW Main with tear gas, pepper balls, and possibly rubber bullets. Also flash bangs
7 month agotake a hit on my left ankle joint.
7 month agoOfficers are continuing to push the crowd back further away from the park/courthouse
7 month agoA protester uses a leaf blower as tear gas fills the street
7 month agoA woman stands inside clouds of tear gas, wearing nothing but a surgical mask
7 month agoCrowd pushed back up to 4th. You'll hear lots of shots.
7 month agoFederal officers launch an assault on protesters with tear gas and impact munitions
7 month agoA protester uses a hockey stick to swing tear gas canister back, another uses a leaf blower
7 month agoFederal officers moving up SW Madison toward 3rd
7 month agoFeds have deployed tear gas against protestors
7 month agothis is Chapman Square in Portland, OR, there's been so, so much gas and protesters have been pushed back to the intersection of 4th and Main by a line of feds and PPB.
7 month agoSome moms hold the line against a growing wall of teargas.
7 month agoThis is what happened a couple minutes ago. Gas spread out over several blocks. Was very difficult to escape. A couple ladies from the mom group gave me a baby wipe to help my eyes
7 month agoThis pisses me off if I had a gas mask I would have went down there maybe they needed help carrying someone. I turn around and 3 people are just standing there with gas masks on. If you are protected you have a duty to help, get your ass down there and find out
7 month agoPeople hustling away from tear gas canisters deployed by federal officers downtown.
7 month agoMore tear gas Portland, Oregon
7 month agoA protester was shot in the arm during that last attack
7 month agoThe Feds starting to gas a lot of moms.
7 month agoThe feds charge out and start launching a lot of teargas.
7 month agoThe federal officers have responded. Gas filling the streets of Portland.
7 month agoFederal police shoot tear gas and munitions into the crowd
7 month agoMassive Tear Gas Portland, Oregon protests
The feds just tear gassed a lot of moms.
7 month agoTeargas has been deployed outside the federal courthouse
7 month agoOfficers just came out and started pelting everyone. They've since retreated back into the building and the crowd is VERY angry. actively trying to break down the fence
7 month agoA large panel of fence has come down at the federal courthouse building.
7 month agoPeople are banging on the fence surrounding the Federal Courthouse building.
7 month agoA group has entered the fence perimeter and has sat down #PortlandProtest
7 month agoFederal officers come out of the courthouse firing crowd control munitions
7 month agoFederal officers monitor the crowd from behind the fence
7 month agoHere is the crowd, the fence, and the door where federal agents are hunkered in. They are not standing outside
7 month agoA protester holding a shield puts themselves in between me and the fence as federal officers take a brief trip inside their enclosure
7 month agoMoms in helmets in front of the federal courthouse
7 month agoJust hit the street. Huge rally (+/- 1000ppl) in front of the Federal Courthouse. People are definitely climbing the new black fence as music blares from both cars and portable speakers and protesters chant the typical chants
7 month agoChanting names of people killed by police in Portland. Moms are still here, but there are some gaps along the fence
7 month agoSomeone was kicking the fence and officers deployed what seems to be a sort of flash bang (on their side of the fence) .. the crowd started to curse at them afterwards
7 month agoMoms do the A.C.A.B. can-can
7 month agoA brief bit of banging on the fence. Crowd's energy not slowing down at all
7 month agoHands up (including one holding a small crow bar)
7 month agoHere's a motorcycle/bike barricade at Salmon & 3rd. Barricades protect protesters from car attacks
7 month agoA crowd of around 200-300 move in front of the Federal Courthouse, led by the phalanx of moms.
7 month agoPeople are at the Justice Center chanting "Feds go home". koin6news PDX protest Oregon protesters PNW
7 month agoI'm at the Justice Center tonight reporting for @portlandmercury.
7 month agoChanting/stomping to the beat of "Black lives matter."
7 month agoThe Wall of Moms is back in front of the Justice Center in downtown Portland, and they brought reinforcements
7 month agoThere's around 100 New York State troopers lined up near ford street for the protest that will be going on I-490 in Rochester New York.
7 month agoBLM demonstrators walking in sudden rain shower towards I-490. Chestnut and Broad Streets
7 month agoThe group Save Rochester-Black Lives Matter holding an event beginning at MLK Park this afternoon called "Shut it Down" in honor of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other lives lost across the country
Protests continue at the Christopher Columbus statue in Pueblo.
7 month agoProtests in Pueblo just getting started. People are trickling in. Protesters have been showing up for a couple of weeks now, calling on Mayor Nick Gradisar to have the Christopher Columbus statue taken down.
7 month agoSome photos of the federal agents in Portland tonight.
7 month agoThis is the antifa supersoldier the mainstream media warned u about
7 month agoThe giant peace sign from earlier is getting burned. "No justice, no peace." one protester yells
7 month agoBig fire going at the pedestal where an elk statue once stood in downtown Portland
7 month agoThere's a fire at the former elk statue. The crowd is still big. At least 300
7 month agoPhotographed this guy. He's not scared
7 month agoHere we see the burning interior of the PPA building earlier tonight
7 month agoThe area where the Elk Statue once stood is a bonfire again. Riot Ribs is back in action. Sure seems like Portland's protesters are basically doing whatever the fuck they want in their city, feds be damned
7 month agoA fire has started portlandprotests day 52
7 month agoCar brought in to provide support to the speakers & singers
7 month agoWow, they really shot a flash bang right at a group of moms
7 month agoMore preposterous violence from the secret police
7 month agoIt's been more than 50 days and the numbers are stronger than ever. The blatant police brutality and federal occupation of this city are radicalizing more and more people and I know we can win this fight
7 month agoProtestors encircle somebody who brought an America flag to counter protest
7 month agoFed front door. Most of the crowd is next door at the JC
7 month agoProtesters remain outside federal courthouse in Portland
7 month agoProtester being hit repeatedly by feds earlier from @PDXzane
7 month agoHere's a shield line on Salmon. Most shields are made out of plastic barrels and pool noodles. The crowd is spread out on 3rd, Salmon, and the northern park. It's at about 350,
7 month ago"Weapons confiscated"
7 month agoThis is a collection of things federal police have shot at us tonight. They have not yet used rubber bullets or pepper balls yet, as far as I know
7 month agoMembers of antifa are using smoke bombs and fireworks to intimidate and provoke a response from DHS
7 month agoSmoke bomb going at the base of the courthouse building.
7 month agoHere's the longer version of the protester being struck repeatedly by federal police tonight in Portland
7 month agoLoud flash bangs and this smoke, but no federal police are visible
7 month agoThe barricades are burning and the LRAD is warning the crowd not to breach or burn down the PPA office
7 month agoCrowd bull rushed. I caught the end of the dispersal
7 month agoAnd here are the hands of another person roughed by police
7 month agoPolice just cleared the crowd. I was running full speed easy and got pushed from behind by a PPB officer. Fortunately I just got scraped
7 month agoI already have more than I can carry
7 month agoAnother tear gas attack. Federal police throw an explosive at a person wearing a white coat and carrying a Red Cross sign
7 month agoVideo from North Portland, where the police declared the gathering a riot a little before 11:30 p.m. ( by @FedorZarkhin)
7 month agoThe pioneer family statue got a splash of red paint near the Justice Center.
7 month agoPPA on fire. Riot declared. Sirens coming from the west. Crowd moving East. Hearing some kind of shots
7 month agoRiot declared about 40 minutes ago after several dumpsters were knocked over and two lit on fire. Police dispersed crowd to the east
7 month agoHuge contingent defiantly marches back to the parks
7 month agoDowntown Portland engulfed in tear gas as federal police emerge from courthouse
7 month agoDumperfires and LRAD are both present.
7 month agoIncredibly chaotic scene right at federal courthouse in Portland
7 month agoProtesters here at a residential complex at NW Glisan and 10th
3 year agoAnti-Trump rally marching from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower. They're now heading to Times Square