Two shots fired by Proud Boys in downtown Portland near 4th and Taylor.
Nobody hit. Counterprotesters quickly recovered a bullet casing to provide to the ACLU.
Received a message last night from a father who noted that his toddler was gassed in his bedroom.
5, 10 or even 20 tear gas warnings don't help people in their homes when PPB decides to use chemical weapons.
Police would rather gas residential neighborhoods than their precinct.
Proud Boys SHOT A BLACK MAN IN THE STOMACH YESTERDAY and it hasn't hit my mainstream newsfeed once.
I seen a "1 Shot In Olympia during clashes" and that's about it.
So are we only playing the juicy headline game when it slanders victims, right? Preferably of victims color, yes?
Someone asked me how I would feel if there was a camp on my street.
Well, I have houseless neighbors living in cars on either side of my house and I only get upset when the cops come bother them.
So there's that.
There are "protesters" among us who were put in place by city officials to rally the crowds and keep the focus of protesting police violence.
They speak of George and Breonna, but not of their killers, as if they were killed in a vacuum.
It is strange to me that we're battling over a local budget issue with a bunch of people who don't even live here.
Ted Wheeler doesn't live here.
The cops don't live here.
OSP doesn't live here.
The patriot bois don't live here.
The feds don't live here.
We live here.
Portland went from not putting salt down during snowstorms because it might hurt the salmon to casually contaminating stormwater w/ chemical weapon residue in just a few short years.
This is a result of running a NW city like a national brand instead of focusing on livability.
What are the protests doing?
How about exposing the clear ties between this president, police and white supremacist groups, something that the DNC has failed to do over the last 5 years.
What's occurring right now in America is that white Americans are grappling with white violence in a way they haven't had to since the failure of Reconstruction.
This fallout is a result of never fixing America's original sin & will occur again & again with increasing frequency.
Denied a group of white people for visible intoxication. Dude tells me that it's because the bar has been gentrified.
Yup. It's me. The Black man gentrifying downtown Portland.
That's it.
Journalists have no problem turning cameras off backstage because their faves are doing coke, yet walk into a political occupation expecting to film enemies of the state.
Priorities seen.
We did not ask to fight with Proud Boys, we did not pick a fight with the feds.
We came out demanding local government take measures to demilitarize our police force & reprioritize local tax dollars from policing to programs that reduce crime.
All of this is their distraction.
Dear White People:
If the police injure you, please sue the shit out of them publicly.
I understand that you don't want to take the attention away from Black Lives (or put it in yourself) but this is part of The Work.
Defund them by any means.
The police are arresting ppl to clear a shelter so that a bank can foreclose on a sketchy mortgage, all-while the pandemic spikes & houselessness is reaching all times highs in the city.
The police fight against our values AND force us to pay for it.
They eat us on both sides.
Stop asking the protesters to direct their energy towards other causes when none of the protest's demands have been met.
It is ridiculous to ask the protesters to do the work of government for free while the fully funded governent spends our money attacking us.
I think the most sober point of defunding the police is that we've escalated the cost of policing by tens of millions of dollars over the last decade and have failed to either curb crime or solve more cases by doing so.
Barry K. Washington was shot to death in Bend for complimenting a white man's girlfriend this last weekend.
He'd been in Bend - a liberal white city - all of a month and a half before he was murdered.
The killer, a Redmond man, was released after posting 10% of $100K bail.
What it is, is that Oregon Dems are desperately trying to pretend they have these protests under control; but here in Portland, we're protesting the Democrats. So the Dems are teaming with the alt-right, exposing themselves & their garbage one-party system.
Mask off, muhfuckas.
Headline if I owned a paper:
PROTESTERS SAVE INDIGENOUS BLACK FAMILY FROM FORECLOSURE EVICTION, AVOIDING VIOLENCE IN THE PROCESS. MAYOR CONSIDERS THIS A LOSS.
Some with recent Covid diagnoses are finding that contracting the illness they worked so hard to dodge for so long has brought them an unexpected reprieve from anxiety โ instead of compounding it further.
There's a thin line between holding each other accountable and tearing each other down.
Demanding accountability without room for education and restoration is the language of the oppressor.
Had a guy tell me I didn't seem like "an antifa". Told him I'm as anti-fascist as it gets. A few minutes later, he was wondering if he was antifa too.
Words have meanings if we stop speaking partisan.
"You comfortable, Tevis?" ๐คฃ
Watch how Ted tries to age-check the unhappy citizen.
This is how the mayor of Portland gets treated when he leaves his hidey-holes.
Conservatives (often who don't even live in Portland) love to say that "homeless people from all over the country come to Portland" but the reality is that homeless folks from all over OREGON come to Portland because those little red counties won't take care of their own.
I am still shocked that Police Chief Lovell wrote an an opinion piece for NYT titled "Violence Is Not The Answer".
The gaslight has never been so bright.
It's sad. We had 2 giant rallies yesterday, gave away tons of food & built networks across the city. Educated people, brought out politicians & had concerts and speeches.
No news coverage.
Protester gets set on fire.
Suddenly everyone has a hot take.
Is context an allergen?
There is no such thing as a peaceful protest for justice. Without justice, there is no peace.
This peaceful protester vs nighttime protester narrative is completely imaginary.
The police are the people engaging in violence. They are the violent protesters.
Two stories of the Black Lives Matter movement are unfolding side by side in Portland. Underlying both is a push to fight racism and hold police accountable for violence.
@CSherwood
reports they are bringing change to Oregon.
During the forest fires, chuds set up illegal checkpoints on public roads and there was never an armed incursion to dismantle them.
This is 33% about prioritizing developer investments, and 67% about police targeting protesters for their demand to abolish their organization.
Defunding the police is very much about putting money into our communities...
... but also, it's a moral imperative. The police are a key part of structural oppression.
If you don't believe me, why do they defend empty apartment buildings and arrest the houseless?
Funny how every allegedly underfunded police department magically has the time and resources to escort white supremacists on walking tours through downtown areas during business hours.
THEY shot the homie's lil' brother over a fake pill deal THEY initiated. He never fired a shot. They let him die.
I'm sick to my stomach.
Defund the Police. Abolish them.
Investigators have released the names of the deputies who shot and killed Kevin Peterson Jr. and provides more detail reportedly from officer interviews.
COVID Rapid Tests cost less than $2.00 to manufacture.
Stores sell them for $15.
Clinics charge $200 to administer them.
I feel like there's a name for this.
Police watch
@MissHolliLinn
get hit with a truck and refuse to make a report, despite her actually having the crosswalk.
Police later claim to not have footage.
I just realized that until he said, "Stand back and stand by," last night, a lot of people around the country didn't realize the ๐๐คก was working with the chuds.
We been told y'all.
Didn't have time to clip this yesterday. I told this man he was clearly not from Portland. He claims he is. When pressed says he's from Happy Valley.
Sir, that's not Portland.
I also took a collection of chud face photos. Shall I share?
This weekend Proud Boys crossed state lines with paintball guns, rifles, pistols, and tazer shields and openly drank in a public park and played music at illegal levels with children present and at no point did these deputized officers assault anyone.
I know because I was there.
OK that's enough.
I was fully prepared for 4 more years of Trump. The gameplan for a Biden victory is actually trickier, but I'm still ready.
The fight has changed a little, but it definitely remains. Especially here where the fake Democrat is our mayor.
Oregon--a red state with two populous blue sanctuaries--has been quietly exacting conservative policies for decades & now that we're getting typical conservative results, they're blaming progressive ideas that have never been implemented and doubling down on right-wing policies.
White supremacists hiding behind "anti-mask" rhetoric call themselves the "Wolverine Watchmen" and plotted to kidnap a sitting Governor...
...but folks still worried about "antifa".
Six people plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court
When they call for so-called peaceful protests, they are asking us to chant and sing for our freedom.
DEMANDING freedom has thus far been reserved for angry white people in defense of white people and movies heroes.
Break the mold.
I think it's stupidly hilarious that people don't want their tax dollars to go toward housing the homeless but are fine with paying hundreds a night to jail them.
Toppling the monuments of our oppressors without making a flyer and/or using a protest/march as cover is remarkably sexy behavior.
This is a Direct Action.
White violence is the LRAD telling you that police are taking lawful action as they club press, legal observers, women and the elderly w/ reckless abandon because someone busted a window 25 minutes ago at a Chipotle... as chuds freely point and shoot guns out of vehicle windows.
I'm pretty worn after last night.
4 locations, 7 police departments, 2 vandalisms, 1 police homicide, 1 of my car windows shattered, 1 bag of gear stolen, 0 useful police.
I deserve brunch.
A couple hundred people congregate on the playground side of Lents Park and enjoy each other.
@ignorantreflect
plays live.
The reasons we stay in these streets are stenciled on the walkway.
Ted Wheeler said he wanted to talk to the community and got WORKED on a Zoom call with all off his friends present, then hung up on the caller because he was losing the argument he asked to have.
Is this your mayor?
Everybody on the left need to calm down for like 4 hours, log off, and reflect on what they came out here for.
Did you come out here to defund the police in support of Black lives? Did you come out here to build a broad coalition of comrades ready to protect us?
"Those who โabjureโ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf." ~George Orwell (explaining the tendency for pacifists to think they can prevail in revolution while white violence defends the empire)
Nobody did anything when Elon Musk made $140Bs in the pandemic, but let some kids get down on some GameStop stocks and suddenly the "free markets" need to be contained.
They question tiny fires and graffiti which they mislabel as violence, all while covering for those who attack us from the shadows with pickups and pipe bombs.
Look at selective criminalization at work.
I could be mathing wrong but if police solve less than 50% of crimes but more than half of the arrests are for homelessness, then wouldn't defunding police and providing housing for all be immediately more effective in reducing crime than providing police and defunding services?
There's a body in the street. (Not pictured.)
Asked the police if they think this shooting could have been avoided if they'd expelled the out of state guntoters. No comment.
Imagine being so corrupt that you announce you have a deadly disease and people aren't sure whether to be happy or sad because they aren't sure you're even telling the truth.
Now imagine being the president.
Now both at the same time.
Instead of making threats of violence, Ted could just share the Go Fund Me and encourage his FILTHY RICH FAMILY and friends to donate and save the home.