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Speaker 1: This feels like the energy for this rebellion is coming

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Speaker 1: from some some unknown place, like like two I said,

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Speaker 1: It's felt almost supernatural because it was pushing people on

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Speaker 1: their human limen. We're in the streets because of Black

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Speaker 1: Lives Matter, because the police killed Brianna Taylor and George Floyd,

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Speaker 1: and they covered up the killing of a mad are

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Speaker 1: very George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin,

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Speaker 1: sparking an unprecedented series of nationwide protests against police brutality.

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Speaker 1: At first, the protests in Portland were like the protests

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Speaker 1: everywhere else. But then they just kept going and going.

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Speaker 1: For more than a hundred consecutive nights of tear gas,

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Speaker 1: rubber bullets, and beatings. Militarized federal police came in with

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Speaker 1: experimental chemical weapons right when vigilante started showing up, shooting

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Speaker 1: into crowds and throwing homemade explosives at activists. Through all this,

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Speaker 1: Portland's Black Lives Matter movement persevered, and their successes and

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Speaker 1: mistakes and their agonies and survival, the activists sup Portland

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Speaker 1: are a lesson for the rest of the nation. Now

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Speaker 1: you can hear the real story in the words of

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Speaker 1: the people who were there. You know, they're they're pushing,

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Speaker 1: they're shoving. I'm I'm yelling and screaming the whole time,

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Speaker 1: like waving my press badge on my cane around saying

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Speaker 1: I'm blind. So we were following the groans of people,

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Speaker 1: you know, coughing and and being things with tear gas,

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Speaker 1: and the cops just rolled up with like four cars

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Speaker 1: and eight officers hopped out and I got snatched up

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Speaker 1: and it's got snatched up by I got grabbed by

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Speaker 1: the hair, got young to the ground. A failure to

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Speaker 1: follow this direction be such a mutual arrest or use

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Speaker 1: of borce, including crowd controlled usial crooked. Listen to Uprising

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Speaker 1: a guide from Portland on the I Heart Radio app,

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