1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm John Gonzalez, the host of s i s new podcast, 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated Weekly. Sports Illustrated has delivered some of the 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: best storytelling in sports for seventy years and now that continues. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: On our show. Each week will dive deep into the 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: best stories from around the sports world. Sports Illustrated Weekly 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: is available every Wednesday on the I Heart radio app, 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe now. 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: The art world, it is essentially a money laundering business. 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: The best fakes are still hanging on people's walls. You know, 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: they don't even know or suspect that their fakes. I'm 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: atle like Baldwin, and this is a podcast about deception, greed, 12 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: and forgery in the art world. I just walked in 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: and saw this great red painting presuming to be a Rothko. 14 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: Of course, art forgeries only happen because there's money to 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: be made, a lot of money. I'm listening to what 16 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: they're paid for each thing. It was an incredible, mandsome money. 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: You knew the painting was fake. Um Listen to Art 18 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: Fraud starting February one on the I Heart Radio app, 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Conquer your 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions with the Before Breakfast podcast. In each 21 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: bite sized daily episode, you'll learn how to make the 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: most of your time with practical tools to help you 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: feel less busy and get more done. Listen to Before 24 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: Breakfast on the I Heart Radio app four wherever you 25 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: get your podcasts. We started the series by asking why 26 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: Portland's and the most accurate answer to that question is 27 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: the history lesson. We gave an episode one, but the 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: most direct and to why the city of Portland became 29 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: the nexus of an uprising starts with a bunch of 30 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: teenagers in a statue of George Washington. Our own Garrison 31 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,679 Speaker 1: Davis was there. Here's what he experienced. On Thursday, June eighth, 32 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: I set out for a park in East Portland. The 33 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: teenage activist group Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front or just 34 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: the Wire Left posted on their Twitter account that something 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: was planned for eight pm, so I made my way 36 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: expecting something interesting to happen. The previous night, the Wire 37 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: Left and some New Black organizers had set up an 38 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: autonomous zone style occupation in front of the Mayor's apartment 39 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: in the upscale Pearl district. Inspired by Seattle's Capitol Hill 40 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: occupied protest slash Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone coome morning. Not 41 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: enough bodies were present at the attempted autonomous zone to 42 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: resist the riot police who arrived to clear the area. 43 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: After the very short lived autonomous zone, I had wondered 44 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: what the wire left had planned next. As eight pm 45 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: approached on that Thursday, only a little over a dozen 46 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: people gathered at the original meeting spot. The small group 47 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: were mostly in black block. Black block is a tactic 48 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: that originated with German anti globalization protesters. It involves wearing 49 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: all black clothing to make it difficult to identify specific people. 50 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: Shortly after I arrived, the crowd had began marching north. 51 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: They decided to take the sidewalk instead of the street 52 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: to due to their low numbers. In a matter of minutes, 53 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: the crowd arrived at their apparent destination, the Portland German 54 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: American Society, which features a large statue of George Washington 55 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: out in front of the building. Activists started by draping 56 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: an American flag over the face of the statue and 57 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: lighting it ablaze. People spray painted the base and statue itself, 58 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: writing genocidal colonist slave owner and six nineteen, the year 59 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: the first enslaved Africans were brought to America. Slowly more 60 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: people arrived as calls for support were made out over 61 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: social media. The few dozen people in attendance started attaching 62 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: nylon straps to the head of the statue and began 63 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: pulling back and forth. By eleven PM, the statue of 64 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:26,119 Speaker 1: George Washington had been completely torn down. The crowd quickly left, 65 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: calling the Night of success, and police arrived a little 66 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: over half an hour later. At the time, no one 67 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: could have known that this small action would trigger a 68 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 1: series of events that would turn Portland's BLM protests into 69 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: the biggest story in the entire country. We pro hey 70 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: leath the listeners take here. Last season on Lethal Lit, 71 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: you might remember I came to Hollow Falls on a 72 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: mission clearing my aunt best name and making sure justice 73 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: was finally served. But I hadn't counted on a rash 74 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: of new murders tearing apart the town. My mission put 75 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: myself and my friends in danger. Though it wasn't all bad, 76 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: I'm going to be a reality tig I like you, 77 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: But now all signs point to a new serial killer 78 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: in Hollow Falls. If this game is just starting. You 79 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: better believe I'm gonna win. I'm tig Torres and this 80 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: is Lethal Lit. Catch up on season one of the 81 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: hit murder mystery podcast Lethal Lit, a tig Tara's mystery 82 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: out now, and then tune in for all new thrills 83 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: in season two, dropping weekly starting February nine. Subscribe now 84 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: to never miss an episode. Listen to Leave a Lit 85 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever 86 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. I'm Colleen with joined me the 87 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 1: host of Eating Wall Broke podcast. While I eat a 88 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: meal created by self made entrepreneur's influence, There's and celebrities 89 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: over a meal they once eight when they were broke. 90 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: Today I have the lovely aj Crimson, the official Princess 91 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: of comfin Asia, Kidding and Asia. This is the professor. 92 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: We're here on Eating While Broke and today I'm gonna 93 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: break down my meal that got me through a time 94 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: when I was broken. Listen to Eating Will Broke on 95 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, on Apple podcast or wherever 96 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. This is Roxanne Gay, host of 97 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: the Roxanne Gay Agenda, The Bad Room, and this podcast 98 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: of Your Dreams. Now, what is The Roxanne Gay Agenda. 99 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: You might ask, well, it's a podcast where I'm going 100 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: to speak my mind about what's on my mind, and 101 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: that could be anything. Every week I will be in 102 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: conversation with an interesting person who has something to say. 103 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about feminism, race, writing in books, 104 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,239 Speaker 1: and art, food, pop culture, and yes, politics. I started 105 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: show with a recommendation, Really, I'm just going to share 106 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: with you a movie or a book, or maybe some 107 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,559 Speaker 1: music or a comedy set, something that I really want 108 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: you to be aware of and maybe engage with as well. 109 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: Listen to the Luminary original podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda, 110 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: The Bad Feminist Podcast of Your Dreams, every Tuesday on 111 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 112 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: get your podcast. Right wing media reacted to the toppling 113 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: of the George Washington statue as expected. A narrative was 114 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: spun that police were letting a violent mob of Antifa 115 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: rioters go around town destroying property without consequence. Pundits criticized 116 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: protesters for erasing history. The Portland police defended their failure 117 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: to stop the toppling of the statue by complaining that 118 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: they had been occupied with a concurrent protest at the 119 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: Justice Center fence. They stated the group blocked the street 120 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: for several hours, throwing projectiles such as hot dogs at 121 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: the Justice Centered doors. By this point, three weeks into 122 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: the protests, dozens of Portland's had been arrested at actions, 123 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: and yet a narrative had begun to spread on right 124 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: wing media that there had been no consequences for protesters 125 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: engaging in destructive activity. The toppling of George Washington flipped 126 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: a switch in national far right media, and suddenly Portland 127 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: was a symbol of everything wrong with the left. Here's 128 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: President Trump on the campaign trail two days ago. Left 129 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: as radicals in Portland, Oregon ripped down a statue of 130 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: George Washington and wrapped it in an American flag and 131 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: set the American flag on fire. Democrat A Democrats. Everything 132 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: I tell you is Democrat. And you know we ought 133 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,959 Speaker 1: to do something. Mr Senators, we have two great senators. 134 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: We ought to come up with legislation that if you 135 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: burned the American flag, you go to jail for one year. 136 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: There are a lot of things wrong with that statement. 137 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: First off, some of the folks who took down that 138 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: statue would find being called a Democrat insulting. Also, the 139 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,599 Speaker 1: Supreme Court has ruled that burning an American flag is 140 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: a constitutionally protected form of free speech. Portland protesters toppling 141 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: at George Washington statue seems to have inspired the President 142 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: to suggest legislation that would ban not just the toppling 143 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: of statues, which was already illegal, but flag burning and 144 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 1: similar acts of protest. As it turned out, Donald Trump 145 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: would follow through on the idea of criminalizing that sort 146 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: of behavior. But why would protesters go through all the 147 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: trouble of tumbling down statues in the first place. We 148 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: talked with some members of the y LF, the Youth 149 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: Liberation Front to get their perspective. Since the President of 150 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: the United States has threatened these again literal children repeatedly, 151 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: We've redubbed the audio in order to protect their identities 152 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: because they represent monuments to people who are white supremacist, 153 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,319 Speaker 1: in genocidal and as an anarchist, I think every statue 154 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: to a women should be torn down because they don't 155 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: believe in idolizing anyone, but especially like people who led 156 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: the way for colonization and just awful atrocities in their lifetime. 157 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: President Trump's fury over the George Washington action through the 158 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: Youth Liberation Front into the national spotlight. But that statue 159 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: was not actually the first to fall in Portland, and 160 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: it would not be the last, though the wire Left 161 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: would become synonymous with a more radical, militant segment of 162 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: the protests, acting under the cover of night. The first 163 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: statue to come down in Portland was actually at Thomas 164 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: Jefferson High School, one of the only remaining majority black 165 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: schools in the state, on the afternoon of June fourteenth, 166 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: as a large peaceful march led by Rose City Justice 167 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: departed from Jefferson, the statue of the school's namesake was 168 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: torn from its pedestal by a small enthusiastic group in 169 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: broad daylight. Picking up the rest of the story is 170 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: my colleague and partner in getting horribly tear gassed A 171 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,359 Speaker 1: Laine Kinchen. Toppling statues of historical slaveholders became a nationwide 172 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 1: trend during the first three weeks of the George Floyd protests. 173 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: By the time the George Washington and statue at the 174 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 1: Portland German American Association came down, eighteen other statues had 175 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: fallen to crowds across the country. In the weeks that followed, 176 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: at least seventeen more statues would meet the same fate, 177 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: and many more would be quietly relocated for their own protection. 178 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: Just as the wire left vandalism of the Washington statue 179 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 1: fits into a larger context of statue toppling. The wile 180 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: of themselves are only one part of Portland's activist ecosystem, 181 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: originally emerging from a loose coalition of anti racist and 182 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: anti Trump high school groups. Here are two while of 183 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: members talking about the genesis of the group in nineteen 184 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,599 Speaker 1: the comrades who started it made a lot of connections 185 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: with the Occupy Ice and started running things, running the 186 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: social media. I think it was really born. It came 187 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: out of like really sporadic school protests, just like whatever 188 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: was happening, and it was something that people felt was 189 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: really important. Back then. The group slowly moved towards like 190 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: anti fascism and you liberation, trying to interest ageism as 191 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: well in those spaces, and I think it definitely went 192 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: that direction completely. Gunto nine. Yeah, that was like a 193 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: big anti fascist and fascist rally in Portland, and I 194 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: definitely think that kind of sparked a turning point where 195 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: I think like the organization really blossomed from there. Yeah. 196 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: We started off as like a very liberal group, like 197 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: one of those many boring student activist groups that just 198 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: like participated in walkouts. But then we started to take 199 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: a more radical turn. Like our first protest that I 200 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: was involved with was for gun control rally and that's yeah, 201 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: that's really cringe looking back, because now we're all like 202 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: insurrectionary anarchists. Oh. I think it definitely moved from that 203 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: into a more radical stance after June twenty nine, and 204 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: then came on the seventeenth, which was another big rally 205 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: in Portland that um where he I mean like a 206 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: good amount of focus was placed on us all of 207 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: a sudden, Yeah, and I think it kind of just 208 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: continued after that. Jacob bu Eros, the founder of Direct 209 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: Action Alliance, says he first encountered what would eventually become 210 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 1: the while Left in March of seventeen, while organizing to 211 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: counter a far right demonstration in the wealthy suburb of 212 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: Lake Oswego. It would be you know, Rose City and TIFA, 213 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: Direct Action Alliance tm w Y, a left which I 214 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 1: think had back then it was still called Oregonians Against 215 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: Trump or something like that, but um, that's when we 216 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: first started organizing together to confront the right wing. Was 217 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: during that time in March of seventeen through May of seventeen, 218 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: and then after that it was discoordinated effort. Jacob says 219 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: the Direct Action Alliance was formed out of a sense 220 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: of desperation in late yeah, after the election. I just 221 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: didn't want to keep wasting my time in politics, and 222 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: I felt this really big sense of urgency. And around 223 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: that time was when they started attacking people. Um at 224 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: Standing Rock and both of my kids are our citizens 225 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: of the Cherokee Nation. My partners the citizen of the 226 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: Cherokee Nation, and they were they were all really upset 227 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: about it, and I was really upset about it. Jacob 228 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: had been an activist for a while previous to this point, 229 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: and he was already familiar with Portland organized There's who 230 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: had risen to prominence with the first Black Lives Matter 231 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: protests in these include Danielle James and the founder of 232 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: Don't Shoot Portland, Teresa Rayford. We each have our own 233 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: individual thing that we really focus on, except for in 234 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: the Direct Action Alliance, we kind of just do everything. 235 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: But most groups have their own thing that they focus on, 236 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: but we're all the same people helping each other behind 237 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: the scene. So when Wild Left is working focusing on 238 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: something that's anti anti police right, it's the same people 239 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: who organized the large peaceful blm rallies who are working 240 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: with them to support them. And so that's where the 241 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: intersection is. We're all one big family here in Portland. 242 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: It's not a it's not like in other cities where 243 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: we actually have to build alliance. As people have been 244 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: active in the city for so long and have been 245 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: seeing the same faces for so long. I'd say it 246 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: all goes back to Terresta Raeford. She's the one. She's 247 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: the one who took it fromleven when the when the 248 00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: occupy movement happened, and kind of molded that energy into 249 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: something where Portland became an activist scene again. This this 250 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: city wasn't wasn't very active. It kind of lost its 251 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: edge until Tersta Rayford came along and started pushing people 252 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: to come out to show up to fight back. When 253 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: Quantis Hayes was killed, she was out there calling everyone 254 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: to come out do something about it, and I'd say 255 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: that she was I'd say she's at the core of it. 256 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: I mean most of the people who I've met, who 257 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: I've coordinated with, who I've worked with, all of those 258 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: groups that I just mentioned to you, I met all 259 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: of them that Don't Shoot Portland rallies. Way back before 260 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: Trump was president, Rayford had originally formed Don't Shoot PDX 261 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: in response to the killing of Michael Brown and Ferguson, 262 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: but the failed PPB shooting of teenager Quantie Hayes in 263 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: February seventeen gave a new local urgency to calls for 264 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: police accountability and came in the midst of an upswing 265 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: of far right mobilizations targeting Portland. Every city has certain 266 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: defining moments, traumas which galvanized the community, spur the creation 267 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: of new coalitions and of rise to new organizing strategies. 268 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: One of those defining moments for Portland came in May 269 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: of seventeen, when a white supremacist named Jeremy Christian murdered 270 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: two people on a max light rail train. The day 271 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: before the killings, Christian assaulted another Portlander, Dmitria Hester. Here 272 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: she recounts her experience. Okay, so three years ago, UM 273 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: Jeremy Joseph Christian UM attacked me he's a white known 274 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: supremacist that here in organists that the police knew about, everybody, 275 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: the the mayor knew about. I mean, everybody just knew 276 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: about him, because he had set the tone at every 277 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: march and saying and stating how much he hates, you know, 278 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: the races, anyone that wasn't black, and wasn't that wasn't white, 279 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: and wanted to harm or kill anyone that wasn't you know, 280 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: those descents of that descent of being white and Christian 281 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: so um. He verbally attacked me for three stops on 282 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: the MAX in May two thousand, two thousands, seven teen, 283 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: front and center, often with a bullhorn in hand. Dimitria 284 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: became one of the most recognizable voices of Portland's protests. 285 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: The man she's describing, Jeremy Christian, was a regular attendee 286 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: of far right rallies in the Portland area. That night, 287 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: Dimitria fended off Christian with pepper spray. Police responded, but 288 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: Christian was not detained and he got away to kill 289 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: the people. The next day on that same Green Line. 290 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 1: He was looking for me because I mased him the 291 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: night before. He encountered to um. One African American lady 292 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: and one lady who had to have Geva bevon and 293 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: UM she wasn't thought she was Muslimed, so he verbally 294 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: started a technic d little girls under eighteen and three 295 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: men came into their rescuing. Was defending them and tried 296 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: to de escalate the problem. But he stabbed two of 297 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: them and killed them, and uh stabbed the third and 298 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: tried to kill him. So the police um got the 299 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: call not to even use uh force when they were 300 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: got the call that he did this on the MAX. 301 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: This just shows you how the police play a part 302 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: and um everything he did and the reason why he 303 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: got away with what he did. And then so when 304 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: they actually um caught him, he was still wielding the 305 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: knife that he killed people with. UM he threatened four 306 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: people on his way to when they detained him. And 307 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:52,719 Speaker 1: the only reason they detained him again was because the 308 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: public was following him. And UM they didn't even shoot 309 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: him with rubber bullis or cheered asthma or anything. With 310 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: a knife in his hand and threatening the police, he 311 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: was able to throw the knife on the police cars. 312 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: You'll drink in his wine that he had in anothergatory bottle. UM, 313 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: and they detain him and after they detain him, he 314 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 1: bragged about what he did. Ricky John Best and Talisia 315 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: Namcamchi died in the attack. The third man, Micah Fletcher, survived. 316 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: A Few weeks before the murders, Christian had attended a 317 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: right wing free speech event in the Montevilla neighborhood of Portland. 318 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: The rally aimed to build on the momentum of the 319 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: Lake Oswego event in March. Micah Fletcher, the only survivor 320 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: of the stabbings, had been in Montevilla as well, counter 321 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: protesting alongside Direct Action, Alliance, Rose City, ANTIFA and what 322 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: would eventually become the YLF. In some ways, Portland is 323 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: a very small town. After the murders, far right rallies 324 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: in Portland continued. Anti fascist counter protests were large and 325 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 1: spirited at first, but as Effie Bound describes, that didn't last. 326 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: And in the year since that we had seen um 327 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: the counter demonstrations dwindle to just basically a small um 328 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: Black Blocks that was based that was showing up to 329 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 1: counter them, and on June it had turned into a 330 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: really really violent um events where a lot of folks 331 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: on our side got pretty seriously hurt and um some 332 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: of them had to go to the hospital and sustained 333 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: school fractures. And there was that video of um, you know, 334 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: Etan Noordine or Rufio, um you know, knocking out somebody 335 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: and UM that kind of you know, became the viral 336 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: proud Boy sensation. It did and and really kind of 337 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: um you know, did a lot for recruitment for them. UM. 338 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: And so we decided that what we needed in Portland 339 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: was um uh straw organizing effort to get as many 340 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: people as possible to show up to oppose them when 341 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: they have these rallies. Effie is part of a group 342 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: called pop mop, short for Popular Mobilization. Their goal is 343 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: to use innovative and community friendly organizing tactics to foster 344 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: a big tent approach to anti fascism. We planned pretty 345 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: closely with Rosity, Antifa and d s a UM. Pretty 346 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: much all of our events that we've had have been 347 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: in partnership with at least those two organizations, and then 348 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 1: for various events, we've had coalitions of up to thirty 349 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: you know, plus organizations at various times have signed onto 350 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: different actions that we've had involving groups like Jobs with Justice, 351 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: and UM like the Buddhist Piece Fellowship and UH Queerliberation Front, UH, 352 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: UH Symbiosis and UH Portland's Assembly. There's a lot of 353 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: different organization since pop Mob has countered far right events 354 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: with online fundraisers, hundreds of free vegan milkshakes and anti 355 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 1: fascist dance parties. When the George Floyd protests began, they 356 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: took on a front role. So one thing is that 357 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: we've always had a very very narrow mission as an organization, 358 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: and we've been really intentional about UM trying to stick 359 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: within the scope of that mission, which is inspiring people 360 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: to show up and oppose the far right and UM. 361 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: So UM, we didn't feel like we were in a 362 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: position UM where we should be leading anything. So we 363 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: instead UM agreed as a group that we wanted to 364 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: operate in a support role only. And UM. One of 365 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: the things that we've done over the last a couple 366 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,199 Speaker 1: of years is kind of really built up on a 367 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: social media presence and UM have you know, had a 368 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: lot of UM but like enough, there's some really talented 369 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 1: people within our group that do a lot of great 370 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 1: media work and UM, and so we had basically just 371 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: wanted to use our platform to boost the organizing. The 372 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: other groups for doing on the ground Don't Shoot would 373 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: organize rallies throughout the summer. Marches called by the Direct 374 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: Action Alliance would repeatedly target police infrastructure. But as new 375 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 1: groups sprung up and led marches of thousands, Portland also 376 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: had a robust support network of activist groups looking for 377 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: ways to help. Longtime Portland activist Gregory McKelvey describes the 378 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: transition to new leadership and groups springing up in there 379 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: were people who were new brand, knew that we're called 380 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,959 Speaker 1: to the moment because of the murder of George Floyd. 381 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: And I think that it is really imperative that those 382 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: people become the leaders. Also think it's imperative that the 383 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: people who were previous leaders take a step back and 384 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: allow those people to be the new leaders. Right. Um, 385 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: And but I think that we cannot keep reinventing the 386 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: wheel every time that protest movement comes up. So what 387 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: needs to happen is the previous leaders of every protest 388 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: movement that happens need to mentor and try and um 389 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: teach the lessons that they learned to the new generation 390 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: that is called to a current moment. The stabbing would 391 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: put all eyes on Portland, though no outlets reporting on 392 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: the inside knew about Demitria's encounter the day before. Months later, 393 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: she would link with activist group Don't Shoot Portland and 394 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: other organizations to tell her story. Thank you for much 395 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: for get any hope in being or story. I would 396 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: praying every night they good would prevail over evil. For 397 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: three years, we our community, the victims have been waking up, 398 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: hoping to seem so closer to the end of the 399 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: senseless travesty. Today it's finally here would they quill unanimous 400 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: votes from the people of our community. Thank you for 401 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: the beautiful, amazing, resilient support group. We have changed the narrative. 402 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: They came hard and strong towards our community. Creaky intellation 403 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: will forever everyone like Jeremy Christian, if all the street 404 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: is they are not welcome here. We love until we 405 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: are creative. She'd continue to work with Don't Shoot, which 406 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: had grown to become the largest Black Lives Matter organization 407 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: in the state, throughout the litigation of her case. In June, 408 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: well into the Portland uprisings, Jeremy Christian was sentenced to 409 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: two consecutive life sentences without parole at the sentencing hearing, 410 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: Demitria offered her own indictment of not only Christian, but 411 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,360 Speaker 1: the entire law enforcement system for facilitating people like him, 412 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: before offering some searing last words for her attacker. Need 413 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: people of color. That's for our community, can't office. We 414 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: need our community and office to do what is best 415 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: for our community, not people that are looking out for popularity. 416 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: And these notes. We're going to stop these from using 417 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: our debts to capitalize and make a profit out of 418 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 1: We will not let you get these people in office. 419 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: You are not welcome here. And to the miss Derevian Christian, 420 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: your mom should have followed you. You are a waste 421 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: up brand. And if can you die, you go to hill. 422 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: I hope you run. See there, Hey, you cant Water's 423 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: fine nets off the exchange would become fuel for Demetrius 424 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: Chance in the streets. Next is my colleague Beatrix. Beatrix 425 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: is a reporter who worked in me on the ground 426 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: in Portland. One time I watched to get shot in 427 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: the head with a grenade by a federal agent. She's fine, 428 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: she had a good helmet. She's going to take you 429 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: through what happened next, starting with the story of Portland's 430 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: largest new activist group. As thousands of newly activated Portlanders 431 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: looked for meaningful ways to latch onto the movement, butting 432 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: in their own backyard, one organization quickly sprung up as 433 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 1: one of the loudest in the crowd, Rose City Justice. 434 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: Almost overnight, Rose City Justice or r c J, was 435 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: leading marches throughout the city educating about Portland's past, its 436 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: black community, gentrification, and police brutality. Led by a black 437 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: truck an enthusiastic chance, these marches amassed upwards of ten 438 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: thousand people at times. Jedi was part of another organization 439 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: that formed in the wake of Floyd's death. His group, 440 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: Portland's Civil Rights Collective, began informally through a chance meet 441 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,360 Speaker 1: up on the first night of the Portland uprisings. Their 442 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: goal at first making cops hate their jobs. Every night, 443 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: he and the PCRC team would take to the streets, 444 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 1: warring with cops downtown in an attempt to drain police resources. 445 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: Their fight would unknowingly lead them to r c J. 446 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: So the first um me and Kinsey, you know, Kinzie Smith. 447 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: Um I met her that night and we had just 448 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: like linked up and just so happened to just find 449 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: ourselves leading. I mean, like eight random people that were 450 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: down to just around battling the cops all night. We 451 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: just kind of fell into that role because I mean 452 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: there's very few black people to begin with, even downtown anyway, 453 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: So um, we were like the only ones that we 454 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: could really see in our vicinity that we're able to 455 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: like um, I hate the word leader, but just like 456 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: lead the the allies around um and trying to keep 457 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: them safe. And so at night we got we exchanged 458 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: numbers with like eighty different people that we had in 459 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: that group. Well really I took everybody's number and put 460 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: it all on a signal group chat, and we just 461 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: kept going out every single night. And then eventually, uh, 462 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: maybe like five or six days, maybe a week passes 463 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: in a Kinsey had came up with a name, and 464 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: she named it Portland Civil Rights Collective, And so we 465 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: did our things for like a week or two, and 466 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: then we linked up with ros City Justice. Once the 467 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: merge happened, they began taking to the streets in a 468 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: very different way. No longer were they standing toe to 469 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: toe with cops every night. Now they were marching in 470 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: the streets. Sometimes. Jedi said it felt like they were 471 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: going nowhere. Man. It's that's a It's interesting because it's 472 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: not how I would have probably imagined it because Rosity 473 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: Justice at the time was not they we're really going 474 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: out at night. I feel like they were doing like 475 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: the the early date or late evening but still daytime 476 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: marches because it's still light out, um. And then things 477 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: were like calmed down, like you know once it got 478 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: dark uh PCRC we were like out out on the 479 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: ground every night all night, uh, just battling the police basically. Um. 480 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: And so when we linked up with r c J, 481 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: because they they had like a much larger following at 482 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: the at the time, and they also had a larger 483 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: social media presence that was like twice as high as 484 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: of ours. In a way, seems like we defaulted to 485 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,959 Speaker 1: their style of of resistance basically, which was just like 486 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: doing these now when I think about, people called them 487 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: the long marches to nowhere, which is really true in retrospect, 488 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: that's kind of what what's happening. I'd like to think 489 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: that we still made an impact on uh A lot 490 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 1: of the community that we would roll around, uh, A 491 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: lot of the neighborhoods that we we'd roll around like 492 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: it was nice to see like families come out of 493 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: their houses and like actually joined the marches sometimes, or 494 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: you know, just seeing their kids on the porch with 495 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: holding up their signs and stuff and that kind of stuff. 496 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: But when I think about how I literally never ever 497 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: saw the police and any of these marches, it it 498 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: makes me wonder like just the effectiveness of it all. 499 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: If the police didn't give a funk about what we're doing, 500 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: then was it really helping? But I don't I don't 501 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: think that's a fair assessment of exactly like how we 502 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: impacted the community. Nonetheless, like it kind of just it 503 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: evolved into basically us doing marches every day trying to 504 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: basically trying to activate people to come out. It's kind 505 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: of I guess how I look at it, um, but 506 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: that's kind of what it turned into. It It went 507 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: from us going out every night, bat on the police too, 508 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: gathering like hundreds and thousands of people actually to go 509 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: on these long marches while our c J led massive actions. 510 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: The so called peaceful protests favored by the likes of Wheeler. 511 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: Events at the Sacred Fence continued to draw the ire 512 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: of City Hall and the police. Some protesters even started 513 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: to wonder if there was really any point in getting 514 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: tear gassed at the same location every night. Divisions began 515 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: to mount between our CJ's education leaning resistance during the 516 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: day and the more lively and more volatile standoffs with 517 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: cops at the fence at night. Rifts formed between the 518 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: peaceful crowd and what you might call the direct action crowd. 519 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: Activist and live streamer Max Smith said he's purposefully not 520 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: tied to any one organization, but as the so called 521 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: fence wars raged on, he too found himself questioning how 522 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: this was furthering the cause for Black lives A fight 523 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: and fence that wasn't what we were here for, you know. 524 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: I and the fence was like some ship that kind 525 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: of it was like I used to call it the 526 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: Grand Theft autos aside mission, like this is, this has 527 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: nothing to do with what we're supposed to be doing 528 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: right now, but we have to complete this to get 529 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: back in the game, you know. And it was really weird, 530 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 1: and I think at that moment I really realized that 531 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: the distraction was intentional and that this was all getting 532 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: just diverted to become like a like a Trump a 533 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: campaign At you know, he's gonna come through and support 534 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: these police unions and this is his big commercial for it. 535 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: So it was a very uh. I felt like it 536 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: was a frustrating part of the protest because a it 537 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: was really a dangerous and people were really getting hurt 538 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: and kidnapped and all that kind of weird stuff. And 539 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: then on top of that, it wasn't the fight that 540 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, to be fighting, but it was. 541 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: But it's the fight that brings out a lot of people. 542 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: So a very contrasting and confusing time for sure. Gregory 543 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: also found frustration with some of the unclear goals of 544 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: the protests as they developed. I think this is a 545 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: big part of the story that I think is not 546 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: being told, or that the hard or further left UM 547 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: has failed to really reckon with UM in an effective way. 548 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: So UM one, I'm still unsure if any of the 549 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: protests have an incredibly coherent goal. UM. For some it's 550 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: abolish the police, for some it's defund the police. For 551 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: some of those things mean the same thing. And then 552 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: I also think there are a ton of Portlanders, actually 553 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: most Portlanders, after working in politics for so long, who 554 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,360 Speaker 1: don't support either of those things. I mean, we hold 555 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: all of those things. Um, they're not popular. Um, they're 556 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,879 Speaker 1: incredibly popular on the left. And if you were at 557 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: the protest, you would think that these are unanimous things. 558 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: They're not. Um. So I think there was an incredible 559 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: opportunity for us when those massive protests. We're happening to 560 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: get a lot of change, not just the common sense 561 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: reforms that I think would make you know, people on 562 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,240 Speaker 1: my hard left just call me a liberal. As divisions grew, 563 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: trouble loomed for our c J. In addition to the 564 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: sometimes fierce arguments over tactics, many Portlanders criticized our CJ 565 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: leadership for including a former military police officer. There were 566 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: also claims of financial mismanagement, particularly once leaders from our 567 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: CJ posted about attending a luxurious three day retreat. As 568 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: tensions rose, activists drew lines in the sand and began 569 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: retreating to their respective corners. From it, people started, I 570 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: guess people weren't really moving on principle, and people weren't 571 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: moving slow enough because a lot of people were really 572 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:53,720 Speaker 1: new to to like organizing and protesting. People just wanted 573 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 1: to like get their way in. They wanted things to 574 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: go their way basically, and when you have too many 575 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: cooks in the kitchen, you know the recipe is gonna 576 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,680 Speaker 1: get fucked up eventually, especially when everybody wants their recipe 577 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: to work. I mean I personally left because I was 578 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 1: with PCRC, and the split was basically all the original 579 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: r c J members and all the original PCRC members 580 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: are splitting down the middle, and we're going our separate 581 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: ways because we had initially combined forces. R c J 582 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: didn't formally disband after the falling out, but things got 583 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: noticeably quieter for the group after June. During the height 584 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 1: of the r c J days, their marches had drawn 585 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,359 Speaker 1: thousands multiple times a week, but by late June they 586 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:48,160 Speaker 1: were mostly boosting other groups actions via Instagram. Many of 587 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 1: the organizers involved with the group went on to form 588 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: their own organizations that continue to play key roles in 589 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: the movement today. Youth let orcs like Friday's for Freedom 590 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: and Black Youth Movement immediately began staging community focused neighborhood 591 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 1: events throughout the city. Another group, calling itself Justice Unity, Integrity, 592 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: Community Equality or JUICE PDX, would go on to host 593 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: several rallies later in the summer. Despite the split organizers 594 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: remember parts of the r C J days fondly. Jedi 595 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: says the mass marches of June helped feed an undeniable 596 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,879 Speaker 1: sense of momentum, the amount of people that will come out, 597 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,399 Speaker 1: and also like just some of the education that we're 598 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 1: giving to the crowd was I think really amazing man, 599 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: and it'smissed um because during those marches, like I would 600 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 1: create like little speeches to give to the crowd, and 601 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: so would Chrissy um, and so would see be like 602 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 1: some of the other organizers, we get on the mic 603 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 1: and like have like oh, we'd also like give the 604 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 1: crowd homework sometimes, so like we'd be like, all right, 605 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,720 Speaker 1: we want you all to read like the Willie Lynch letters. 606 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: And then like two days march, like literally the next 607 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 1: day or the day where we like asked the crowd, 608 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: all right, so raise your hand if you read that, 609 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,720 Speaker 1: you know. So um, those were really nice moments because 610 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: like you'd see some people literally raise their hand and 611 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 1: obviously you know some people probably have him, but like 612 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: some people literally did their homework. So it was nice 613 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: to see that. And also just like I'd say, like 614 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,239 Speaker 1: a high point is just we've never seen mass mobilization 615 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: like that ever happened important, I will I've never seen 616 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:32,319 Speaker 1: that before. Uh, for for an extended period of time, 617 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,799 Speaker 1: like seeing thousands of people come out every single day, 618 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 1: um to basically wake up their neighborhoods. That seemed like 619 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: that was really powerful for for all of us too, 620 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: to feel like we were kind of shifting the you know, 621 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: the we're causing, like a paradigm shift in our community. 622 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: With Rose City Justice no longer organizing large scale marches 623 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: on a regular basis, and the nightly crowd at the 624 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: Justice Center and getting smaller each night, some activists decided 625 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: a change was needed. On June, people again attempted a 626 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: temporary autonomous zone, this time in North Portland in front 627 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: of the Portland Police Bureaus North Precinct. Barricades were put 628 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: up along the streets the precincts. Doors facing the occupied 629 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 1: area were boarded shut, and the main exit an entrance 630 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 1: facing the other direction were left open so that police 631 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,240 Speaker 1: could vacate the premises. Police responded to this occupation faster 632 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,560 Speaker 1: than the one at Wheeler's apartment. For one, it was 633 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 1: at a police precinct, so there was a police presence, 634 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: and two it had the same problem as the first 635 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,479 Speaker 1: attempted autonomous zone, not enough people were present to hold 636 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: down the area. After only a few hours, police came 637 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 1: charging from around the corner, ripping apart barricades and firing 638 00:39:50,440 --> 00:40:01,560 Speaker 1: off stun grenades and pepper balls. The crowd moved to 639 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,840 Speaker 1: block north and then quickly started a dumpster fire in 640 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 1: the middle of the road. The police, you are to 641 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: dispersed now, ran control agents and impact nunicians will be 642 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 1: you and again there bailed to the blind. There was 643 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: also a second, much smaller trash can fire beside building 644 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,400 Speaker 1: adjacent to the police precinct. The flames from inside the 645 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,240 Speaker 1: trash can caught on fire some of the plywood boards 646 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,359 Speaker 1: covering a window. Protesters noticed and people began yelling, this 647 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: is a black owned business. Put the fire out. People 648 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,480 Speaker 1: scrambled to put out the small flames on the plywood, 649 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,399 Speaker 1: and at the same time police started shooting off tear 650 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,440 Speaker 1: gas and flash bangs. The next day, the police, mayor 651 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: and local news companies spread the narrative that protesters locked 652 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 1: and barricaded officers inside their precinct and then lit the 653 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:59,200 Speaker 1: precinct on fire. But what happened here last night with 654 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:05,400 Speaker 1: door being nailed shut, barred, shut with fires being set 655 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:10,439 Speaker 1: to the outside of the building with people inside. That 656 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 1: is not transformation. What happened here isn't helping to bring 657 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: about any meaningful change, reform or an end to the 658 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: historic races, and that all of us are joined together 659 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 1: and seeking to eliminate. Last night it was plainly and 660 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:31,880 Speaker 1: simply about arson. It was about destruction, it was about 661 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: endangering lives. It's blatant criminal violence, violence that is totally unacceptable. 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After the 700 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,319 Speaker 1: protest at the North Precinct, people still wanted to get 701 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,759 Speaker 1: away from the nightly dread at the Justice Center and 702 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: Fence Direct Action Alliance, the Youth Liberation Front and some 703 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,919 Speaker 1: of the BIPOD activists who started the initial Justice Center 704 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,120 Speaker 1: protest organized another protest in North Portland, this time at 705 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: the Police Union Building. So for a month we were 706 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,560 Speaker 1: just targeting downtown, right, We were just straight downtown every 707 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,600 Speaker 1: single day, and we we figured that we needed to 708 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,720 Speaker 1: diversify a little bit and start hitting other targets around town. 709 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,400 Speaker 1: Um going and protesting in areas like that, in neighborhood 710 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,960 Speaker 1: letting people participate in come out into the streets with us. 711 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,360 Speaker 1: So that's when we decided to start marching through neighborhoods. 712 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,000 Speaker 1: So we did another events in Peninsula Park on June, 713 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 1: and this time we wanted to make it a lot 714 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,720 Speaker 1: more community oriented, so we invited a lot of artists 715 00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,759 Speaker 1: to come perform. Mike Crenshaw was there, um Emiliana Desapato 716 00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:23,320 Speaker 1: was there, um uh C three, the Guru, all these people. 717 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 1: It was like a concert slash rally and it was great. 718 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,040 Speaker 1: And we and that was the first night we targeted 719 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,080 Speaker 1: the Portland Police Association building and so we went out 720 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,200 Speaker 1: there and that's when they gassed us, and they gassed 721 00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,080 Speaker 1: the whole neighborhood. That was the first night that they 722 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:41,240 Speaker 1: guessed an entire fucking neighborhood. When hundreds of Portlanders arrived 723 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,560 Speaker 1: at the Police Union building to protest, the building was 724 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,319 Speaker 1: already surrounded by Portland police and Oregon State troopers in 725 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:53,319 Speaker 1: riot gere. Within minutes, an unlawful assembly was declared, and 726 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,279 Speaker 1: soon after coffs began pushing people east away from the 727 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:14,080 Speaker 1: p p A building. Do not stop now, talking late, 728 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:23,640 Speaker 1: get you get back. All cops shoved and hit people 729 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,160 Speaker 1: with their batons while walking east for a few blocks, 730 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,840 Speaker 1: and then began to bull rush the crowd. In a bulrush, 731 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,320 Speaker 1: a line of officers sprints towards the massive people, knocking 732 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,239 Speaker 1: over as many as possible, and then officers in the 733 00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,440 Speaker 1: back typically come to tackle and arrest anyone on the ground. 734 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,800 Speaker 1: That night, officers initially used smoke grenades, flash bangs, pepper balls, 735 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,400 Speaker 1: and rubber bullets as well. This event has been deed 736 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 1: and unlawful. Assimbly. You need to disperse it the east 737 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:58,360 Speaker 1: to subject future arrest and forced to include crowd control 738 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:03,400 Speaker 1: of munitions move to the east. After multiple bulrushes and 739 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:08,000 Speaker 1: constant volleys of munitions, protesters began throwing munitions back at 740 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,440 Speaker 1: the armored police, along with plastic water bottles. Police responded 741 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,720 Speaker 1: by declaring a riot and blanketing the neighborhood and tear gas. 742 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:30,200 Speaker 1: First users on the area dispersed the area. Now, tear 743 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,800 Speaker 1: gas had been banned in Portland since June nine. On 744 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,280 Speaker 1: in Jackman Square, Mayor Wheeler had addressed an unfriendly crowd 745 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,240 Speaker 1: of activists who had spent the last two weeks getting 746 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,120 Speaker 1: repeatedly tear gassed by Portland police. He promised to ban 747 00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,560 Speaker 1: the use of tear gas the next day. Soon after 748 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:55,240 Speaker 1: he left, officers gas the crowd. The next day, Wheeler 749 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:59,680 Speaker 1: kept his word, sort of. The band came with a 750 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,759 Speaker 1: lot of holes gas was allowed in situations where quote 751 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,719 Speaker 1: lives or safety of the public or the police are 752 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,319 Speaker 1: at risk, which was too vague to mean much. But 753 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,640 Speaker 1: Portland police did take longer than usual to use tear 754 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,359 Speaker 1: gas on the night of June. The reason why was 755 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,799 Speaker 1: that earlier that day, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into 756 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,800 Speaker 1: law a bill that banned the use of tear gas. 757 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,400 Speaker 1: The exception was if Portland police declared a riot and 758 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:34,160 Speaker 1: announced out loud that tear gas was about to be used. So, 759 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,120 Speaker 1: of course, the police switched tactics and made sure to 760 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,840 Speaker 1: declare a riot when they wanted to use tear gas 761 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,840 Speaker 1: on the thirty The main justifications seemed to be the 762 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,520 Speaker 1: protesters were near the Union building and some of them 763 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,080 Speaker 1: had hucked plastic water bottles at riot lines of armored cups. 764 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,319 Speaker 1: The Portland police declared a riot and started gassing. In 765 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,160 Speaker 1: the end, neither the state nor local bands on tear 766 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,160 Speaker 1: gas helped the Portlanders who lived in houses and apartments 767 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,399 Speaker 1: along North Lombard Street. It was a balmy summer night 768 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 1: and many of them had their windows open in the 769 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,280 Speaker 1: fresh air. When that air turned to poison gas, multiple 770 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,799 Speaker 1: residents were assaulted and even arrested. While trying to flee 771 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,680 Speaker 1: their gas filled homes outside of Oregon. On the federal level, 772 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,920 Speaker 1: other events in late June would contribute to Portland becoming 773 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,720 Speaker 1: the most heavily tear gas city in the United States. 774 00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:29,080 Speaker 1: On June, President Trump had signed Executive Order one three 775 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:35,040 Speaker 1: nine three three protecting American Monuments, memorials and statues, and 776 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,359 Speaker 1: federal property. As we've already explained, toppling statues had become 777 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,400 Speaker 1: a viral sensation at the time, but the toppling of 778 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,560 Speaker 1: a George Washington statue by teenage Portlanders seemed to have 779 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,960 Speaker 1: been the most direct inspiration for this executive order. President 780 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,840 Speaker 1: even referenced Portland in his press release on the matter. 781 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,640 Speaker 1: The order also presents its own timeline of the nationwide 782 00:49:55,640 --> 00:50:01,000 Speaker 1: protests of June, saying quote, over the past five weeks, 783 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,080 Speaker 1: there have been sustained assaults on the life and property 784 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:09,040 Speaker 1: of civilians, law enforcement officers, government property, and revered American 785 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,360 Speaker 1: monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial. Many of the rioters, arsonists, 786 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,320 Speaker 1: and left wing extremists who have carried out and supported 787 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,640 Speaker 1: these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies such as 788 00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,600 Speaker 1: Marxism that call for the destruction of the United States 789 00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:29,160 Speaker 1: system of government. Anarchists and left wing extremists have sought 790 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,000 Speaker 1: to advance a fringe ideology that paints the United States 791 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,160 Speaker 1: of America as fundamentally unjust, and have sought to impose 792 00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:42,000 Speaker 1: that ideology on Americans through violence and mob intimidation. The 793 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:47,560 Speaker 1: order describes a massive, overwhelmingly peaceful nationwide protest movement throughout 794 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:51,600 Speaker 1: May and June is five nightmarish weeks of rampant violence 795 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,880 Speaker 1: and murder, but its solutions focus confusingly on the prevention 796 00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,760 Speaker 1: of vandalism to statues. It states that quote United States 797 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,960 Speaker 1: law authors is a penalty of up to ten years 798 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 1: imprisonment for the wilful injury of federal property end quote, 799 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:12,200 Speaker 1: and goes on to say state and local law enforcement 800 00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:16,239 Speaker 1: agencies that failed to protect monuments, memorials, and statues will 801 00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,600 Speaker 1: be subject to withholding of federal support, and the federal 802 00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,000 Speaker 1: government will ensure personnel are available across the nation to 803 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:28,200 Speaker 1: assist with the protection of federal monuments, memorials, statues, and property. 804 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:33,120 Speaker 1: Feorder is unclear on how broadly federal jurisdiction extends in 805 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:37,719 Speaker 1: the protection of statues. All in all, dozens of statues 806 00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,560 Speaker 1: were vandalized and destroyed throughout the country in the first 807 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,640 Speaker 1: five weeks of the George Floyd uprisings. The vast majority 808 00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,680 Speaker 1: of these statues were Confederate monuments in the American South. 809 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,319 Speaker 1: As of June, only two statues had been targeted by 810 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,120 Speaker 1: Portland's protests, one on the steps of a high school 811 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,240 Speaker 1: and the other on the private property of the Portland 812 00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,879 Speaker 1: German American Society. Both of these were miles from any 813 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,480 Speaker 1: federal property. However, under the president's new executive order, Portland 814 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,880 Speaker 1: would become the first city to see the large scale 815 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,600 Speaker 1: deployment of federal troops. The Multnoma County Justice Center, the 816 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,160 Speaker 1: epicenter of Portland's ongoing protests, is flanked on both sides 817 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:17,560 Speaker 1: by federal buildings, the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse and the 818 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,400 Speaker 1: Edith Greenwindell Wyatt Federal Building. A few blocks away. The 819 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,400 Speaker 1: federal landmark of Pioneer Courthouse overlooks Courthouse Square, the site 820 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,279 Speaker 1: of many of June's large daytime rallies, as well as 821 00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,160 Speaker 1: many tear gas choked showdowns between nighttime protesters and PPB 822 00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,200 Speaker 1: riot lines. When Feds were sent in, they would be 823 00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:39,520 Speaker 1: deploying into the center of Portland's ongoing protests. On July one, 824 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,360 Speaker 1: Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolfe, 825 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,040 Speaker 1: put out a statement answering the President's call, referring to 826 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,400 Speaker 1: the executive order he had made. The end of that 827 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,840 Speaker 1: statement read, as we approached the July fourth holiday, I 828 00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,240 Speaker 1: have directed the deployment and prepositioning of rapid response teams 829 00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,320 Speaker 1: across the country to respond to potential threats to facilities 830 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,520 Speaker 1: and property. Well. The Department respects every American's right to 831 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,560 Speaker 1: protest peacefully. Violence and civil unrest will not be tolerated. 832 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,759 Speaker 1: In the next episode, we'll hear how Portland protesters and 833 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,160 Speaker 1: those rapid deployment teams met in Portland for the very 834 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:21,239 Speaker 1: first time on July four. Uh Where the grandpops who 835 00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,440 Speaker 1: couldn't fathom the obamasis, I don't hate America, just to me, 836 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,800 Speaker 1: and she keeps some promises teens looking like the sixties. 837 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,160 Speaker 1: It's crazy, a nationwide deja p What my people post 838 00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,320 Speaker 1: to do go to schools named after the clan founder 839 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,120 Speaker 1: were around town? 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