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ge when they got a good look at the sheer size of the crowd they turned back around the crowd eventually reached and surrounded the justice center a tense hours long stand off ensued activists demanded the police take off their riot gear then amended that to asking them to take a knee the police were unmoved eventually the crowd thinned out enough that the ppb felt secure dispersing it the evening ended with small groups of protesters running through the streets pursued by officers hanging off the sides of riot trucks and shooting wildly at everyone they saw it kind of sucked i have no other words to describe it robert got hit in the foot and it s now a civil disturbance and an unlawful assembly upgrade pic twitter com urlkcnuqdn 45th ןǝןןɐɹɐd ʇsıpɹnsqɐ ǝpɐbıɹq 45thabsurdist june 1 2020 the cycle of violence after that first terrible weekend the situation in portland began to stabilize into something predictable on monday june 1st a second mass rally similar in size to the one on may 31st assembled at revolution hall near the middle of the city these people attempted to march to the justice center but by that point the police had called in for an enormous chain link fence to wall it and the federal courthouse off from the rest of the city the protest on june 1st was distinctly different from anything that had come before a new group of inexperienced activists took the wheel and they placed great emphasis on talking with the police and avoiding any confrontation in this they were successful and the crowd marched across the hawthorne bridge toured downtown and marched back to revolution hall with barely any sight of police officers this would prove to be the beginning of a split within oregon s protest movement on one end were more moderate liberal marchers who sought to avoid conflict with the police while engaging in peaceful protest on the other end were more radical demonstrators who found the rally on june 1st to be pointless after this night the two parts of the movement grew further and further apart the more moderate demonstrators coalesced around a new organization called rose city justice which continued to lead mass demonstrations for the next couple of weeks most of their marches followed the same basic pattern as the one on june 1st although they also occupied chunks of highway on several occasions they succeeded in avoiding conflict with the police but their numbers rapidly dwindled on june 30th they announced an end to their nightly marches meanwhile the more extreme members of the movement gravitated towards a series of nightly protests around the fence walling the justice center and courthouse off from the rest of the city thanks to a joke i made during a livestream they began calling it the sacred fence it has a twitter account now the rallies at the fence were met with intense police violence from the very beginning on june 2nd after another mass rally by the group that became rose city justice about a thousand activists peeled off and approached the fence they demanded to be allowed to protest at the justice center and were forced away from the fence by a barrage of police impact munitions and tear gas the crowd reformed repeatedly and continued to march on the fence the police eventually responded by an indiscriminate barrage of grenades kettling the crowd on all sides with walls of tear gas the amount of gas used was so overwhelming that a photograph of the resultant nightmare was used for a new york magazine spread portland oregon gets a two page spread in new york magazine pic twitter com ewnlc6ghjr aaron mesh aaronmesh june 20 2020 again large numbers of motorists stuck in traffic were tear gassed by the police temporarily blinding a number of them and helping to spark eight lawsuits seeking to ban the use of tear gas by the ppb tear gas tuesday as it came to be known was also the very first night where portland crowds were able to repeatedly reform after being gassed and dispersed by the police as one activist told me after a particularly heavy bout of gassing it s only really scary the first time then you get used to it the crowd at the sacred fence started to bring more traffic cones to douse gas canisters they also brought umbrellas and shields to deflect impact munitions they continued to march on the fence prompting the police to reduce its size to just covering the area immediately around the justice center and courthouse the nightly demonstrations took on a predictable cadence after this crowds would assemble around the fence and heckle the officers inside on some nights the police would choose to start firing impact munitions into the crowd and eventually gassing them on other nights they would not every use of force was justified by the police due to the crowd throwing something over the fence fireworks water bottles even a can of beans one time and apparently a half eaten granny smith apple more items recovered that were thrown at officers full beverage cans bricks bottles rocks food pic twitter com rtgildcuks portland police portlandpolice june 6 2020 the portland police removed their fence on june 15th as the nightly demonstrations at the justice center had faded down to just a few hundred individuals on a good night the justice center protests became a regular outlet for activists a place where someone could always go to have a confrontation with the police as often as not the nights there ended in violence yet through the latter half of june and into early july protesters began experimenting with different tactics some small groups of activists started destroying statues starting with thomas jefferson and george washington on june 14th and 18th on june 25th spurred on by the creation of the seattle autonomous zone several hundred portland activists attempted to occupy the north precinct before being forced out by tear gas and batons at one point portland police broke the window of a protester s car and pulled them out into a cloud of tear gas the police teargassing the streets of portland and pulling people out of their vehicles into the gas portlandprotest blacklivesmatter pdxprotests pdx oregon blm acab northprecinct portland pic twitter com fiswaldilg garrison davis teargas proof hungrybowtie june 26 2020 after being pushed out of the precinct the crowd set an enormous dumpster fire which they used to ward off a police advance for several minutes for unclear reasons a small group of activists moved over to the mid k beauty supply which abuts the north precinct and set fire to the plywood covering its windows this was a contentious decision and angered several members of the crowd as the police advanced and began to fire tear gas a larger group of activists beat the fire out before fleeing the next day june 26th a number of black community leaders in portland issued a statement condemning the demonstration at the north precinct one of them pastor dr steven holt called the fire at mid k beauty supply a terrorist activity together with mayor ted wheeler this group held a press conference in front of the burnt plywood façade of mid k as june ended portland protest culture settled into an odd rhythm there were nightly gatherings at the justice center which sometimes ended in police violence and sometimes ended in parties several times a week new rallies at places like the north precinct or the portland police association headquarters would occur these were often heavily promoted by the anti fascist group youth liberation front who are probably the strongest consistent voice for portland s radical protest scene on any given day portlanders could generally find some sort of peaceful rally or if they choose wind up in a skirmish with the ppb the battle in the courts on june 11th a federal judge in portland issued a two week restraining order on the use of tear gas this was a partial granting of the request of a local activist group don t shoot portland under the terms of the ban portland police were only able to use gas as a life saving measure this ban came with a loophole however riots are assumed to be life threatening situations and so the ppb increasingly started making riot declarations to justify their use of tear gas in one five day period from june 30th to july 4th the ppb declared three riots the justifications for this were often questionable for example the rally on june 30th was a march of about three hundred people that ended at the portland police association headquarters the ppa is portland s local police union it is a private entity but the city seems to deploy significant resources to protect it by the time the marchers arrived at the ppa building in north portland it was surrounded by a riot line with numerous police vehicles and riot troopers waiting in reserve the state troopers who guarded the front of the building wore no identifying numbers or name tags within minutes of the crowd s arrival the police declared an unlawful assembly and demanded the crowd disperse they justified this by citing criminal activity in the crowd but what that meant was unclear within an hour and with no clear justification the ppb declared a riot and began firing tear gas into both the crowd and the neighborhood around them local residents were kept out of their homes and some wound up stuck outside their houses and apartments in the gas cloud a few weeks later on july 14th a second march again formed up around the portland police association headquarters on this occasion the riot declaration was made after a police officer slapped the phone out of an activists hand and sent it careening into the window of the ppa building it broke a window which the ppb used as justification to declare a riot and deploy tear gas so here s the video from teebsgaming on https t co dafgnlpdl3 of an officer smacking the phone from a protester s hand into the window of the ppa building and the broken window is what they then used as their reason to declare a riot and gas people portlandprotest pic twitter com x8iqqmfvtx kboo community radio kboo july 14 2020 portland police have also been taken to court for their treatment of local journalists they have regularly targeted press during demonstrations with the worst night so far being the first protest at the portland police association three reporters were arrested within the span of a few minutes cory elia lesley mclam and justin yau video taken by elia shows that his encounter started when he walked past an officer he recognized john bartlett and mentioned his name while livestreaming officer bartlett knocked elia s phone out of his hands several minutes later a group of officers grabbed elia tossed him to the ground and arrested him he was charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer i filmed elia s arrest and saw no sign of any resistance you can judge for yourself here justin yau was arrested the same night for filming an arrest himself he was also charged with felony riot lesley mclam also initially faced felony charges but the district attorney rejected these charges these arrests came after weeks in which portland police assaulted a number of local journalists sergio olmos was shoved repeatedly by police on the night of june 6th cory elia was thrown into a wall and kicked while on the ground the same night reporter donovan farley was assaulted on june 7th while attempting to film an arrest officers beat him on the legs with truncheons and maced him as he tried to leave on july 2nd less than 48 hours after the march on the ppa building u s district judge michael h simon issued a temporary restraining order against the city banning police from arresting or using force on anyone they know or reasonably should know was a journalist or legal observer two weeks later on july 16th portland police arrested local reporter andrew jankowski while he was covering a demonstration at this point most of the portland press corps including myself are actively suing the portland police bureau the federal injunction does seem to have moderated their behavior but at the end of the day the level of the anger of individual officers seems to be the only real factor that determines whether or not a journalist spends the night in jail the edge of all out war on july 4th portland s thirty ninth consecutive night of protests more than a thousand people assembled in front of the justice center and federal courthouse downtown they began launching dozens of commercial grade fireworks into the concrete facades of both buildings prompting a response from the police and federal agents inside both buildings what followed resembled nothing so much as a medieval siege the windows of both government buildings had been covered in plywood weeks ago after the first riots officers inside fired out through murder holes cut in the plywood pumping rubber bullets pepper balls and foam rounds into the crowd while the crowd formed phalanxes of shield bearers to protect the men and women launching fireworks back in response federal agents dumped tear gas into the street but portland s frontline activists had long since lost their fear of gas the feds and the police were eventually forced to sally out with batons to drive the crowd back i reported on the fighting in mosul back in 2017 and what happened that night in the streets of portland was of course not nearly as brutal or dangerous as actual combat yet it was about as close as you can get without using live ammunition at times dozens of flash bangs and fireworks would detonate within feet of us over the course of a few minutes my ears rang for days afterwards my hands shook i could not write for days the whole situation prompted the first major federal response to portland s nightly protests it started in the media with cbp commissioner mark morgan going on fox news to denounce local activists as criminals these are not protesters these are criminals who got together and actually brought weapons they brought shields they brought frozen water bottles rocks lasers weapons with the intent to destroy a federal building and harm law enforcement officers i take some issue with this because there was never any real chance of either the federal courthouse or the justice center being seriously damaged by fireworks both buildings are at this stage in the protests essentially fortresses before federal agents opened fire activists in the park actually seemed much more interested in shooting fireworks at the justice center to provide a show for their friends incarcerated inside a prisoner inside the justice center began waving out at the crowd and there was much rejoicing pic twitter com esvm37omhn robert evans the only robert evans iwriteok july 5 2020 i also take issue with the next thing mark morgan said one of the criminals that were actually trying to assault one of the cbp employees while he was being arrested the report right now is that a pipe bomb a fused incendiary device and a machete was 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