Two-year-old killed in hit-and-run crash in Milwaukie, Oregon; driver sought
7 month agoDeputies are at the scene of a crash at Hwy 211 and Hwy 170 near Molalla. The crash involved a car and motorcycle. The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital by Life Flight
7 month agoHere are blue and camo policemen guarding the courthouse while contractors in red shirts put up plywood
7 month agoCrews are boarding up the front doors of the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Portland after @PortlandPolice declared a riot overnight.
7 month agoVideo by @KohzKah of when tear gas was used. You can see me recovering from gas in the beginning of the livestream above
7 month agoThis is who's getting pepper balled, for reference. There another dozen-ish in Chapman Square.
7 month agoA woman says she almost got hit in the eye. She found one of these in tact. It contains powdered irritant
7 month agoPPB firing pepper balls again, thrice, as a protestor shows me the pellet he got shot with. It's a thick rubber, almost solid, while the plastic shell is lightweight but hard/sturdy. I
7 month agoChants of "Tear Gas Teddy" and "F*ck Ted Wheeler"
7 month agoA few of these marks in Chapman. Appear to have been shot from courthouse's direction.
Police left intersection at Broadway and Main in a cloud of smoke, taking two arrested people with them
7 month agoNLG observers are being allowed to stand closer to the police line. They're specifically protected in the injunction the @ACLU_OR got earlier today
7 month agoHappening in downtown Portland
7 month agoShot at for retrieving this rubber bullet so please like this one
Definitely tear / countryside gas. helped 3 people's eyes and my own
7 month agoPolice shoot spicy pepper balls as they retreat into the courthouse. You can hear people coughing at the end here
7 month agoThis is not a riot. Obviously
7 month agoBroadway and Main stand-off. PPB arrested some people but I didn't see it happen. Crowd chanting, "Let them go."
7 month agoThis is the video that may have inspired that arrest. This officer was acting very aggressively and didn't like me filming him
7 month agoWe got bull rushed. They knocked me to the ground and told me I was under arrest. I yelled my twitter handle to an NLG observer and the officer who was holding me got an order to let me go
7 month agoPPB still declaring riot. These people are getting shot a lot
Tear gas Friday morning . me on @HappsNews: blacklivesmatter BLM
7 month agorunning West, and so is PPB.
7 month agoTear gas deployed
7 month agoLots of police on Main, crowd running. Many people were there getting treated for tear gas
7 month agoThis was the umbrella contingent a minute ago at the courthouse. most people are at 3rd and Main and PPB is telling them to leave because of criminal activity
7 month agoThe federal courthouse front door is busted open
8 month agoScene of a house fire in SW Portland. It's on SW 26th, right by I5 at Barbur Blvd. Portland Fire says the lone occupant got out, but a dog was killed in the fire.
8 month agoPDXFire is at the scene of a car fire at SE 118th Ave & SE Foster Rd. Firefighters say they found fireworks inside
8 month agoDay 35 Portland protests. Elk Fountain, Southwest 5th Avenue
8 month agoCount 120 protestors left, give or take
8 month ago"No justice, no peace, take to the streets and f...ck the police"
8 month agoCrowd here is much smaller than thought. Maybe like 50 behind the barricade. Still no visible police.
8 month ago"We ready, we ready, for y"all" protestors sing to police
8 month agoIn previous nights when numbers were low, police issued warnings that all parks closed at midnight and dispersed crowds based on that reasoning. Tonight no warnings have been given about park curfew
8 month agoNo policemen for a while so no anger, panic and violence.
8 month agoSome fireworks that just kept coming.
8 month agoFireworks over the JC
8 month agoProtestor launches fireworks in direction of justice center
A lot of pepper balls and a stun grenade.
8 month agoProtestor tried to build consensus on not getting near federal courthhouse "this is against the police, no the federal court, they haven't done shit to us" One protester yells back in disagreement "are you fucking kidding, they do shit to us every night"
8 month agoElk statue in Portland protests
8 month agoProtestors are setting up a barricade with wood paneling from the federal courthouse
8 month agoThis was caused by police. One man was standing here previously
A couple of protestors tore down some of the wood from the courthouse to add to the fire at the elk statue
8 month agoBig elk fire boom:
8 month agoA spectacle at the elk statue
8 month agoSome people have removed wooded boards that were covering windows of federal courthouse (next to justice center) — those boards are being tossed into bonfire below the elk statue
8 month agoThis is a fire *at* the Elk Most Holy amd not a fire *upon* the EMH, which resides, of course, in the PNJZ (Portland No Journalism Zone)
8 month agoMore fuel for the fire at the elk statue.
8 month agoKneeling with umbrellas in front of federal courthouse, officers inside
8 month agoAnd a bunch of people are here. There was one guy here yelling at a building two minutes ago. He was shot several times so people came over and the policemen will use this as the reason they charge. This is what they do
8 month agoHere's the Elk Fire God before we go
8 month agoPolice out, standing guard in front of federal building. Weapons drawn
8 month agoThe elk in its final form—our dystopian god
8 month agoBarricade moved to block main, half a block west of the elk
8 month agoPolice walked around corner, it seems. Folks have created a barrier with cones / wooden barricades between elk & JC
8 month agoPolice moved into the federal courthouse
8 month agoProtestors gather near the elk statue
8 month agoLots of people coughing, the projectiles were pepper balls
So again the police came out and again they shot balls at people and then yet again they retreate into the JC. I would love for someone to explain how the aim of this is anything other than spurning anger in the citizenry. Would love. "Let us descalate random violence".
8 month agoProtesters begin to form a phalanx, moving back to interesection
8 month agoPolice fire non-lethal projectiles
8 month agoProtestors move forward
Many shots fired at a few protesters standing across the street from the courthouse. smells like pepper balls. Please know that it looks like PPB are the ones shooting and there was zero dispersal order or any announcement of any kind
8 month agoPolice have thrown a flash bang, crowd remains
8 month agoPortlandprotest day 34
8 month agoElk fire keeping me warm. N.W.A. playing in the background
8 month agoProtestors remain at the intersection
