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Speaker 1: By the time protests kicked off in Portland, protesters in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis had burned down the Third Precinct and several other buildings.
Speaker 1: But as it turns out, Portland was actually the first
Speaker 1: city in the country to declare a riot over the
Speaker 1: protests after George Floyd's death. This has more to do
Speaker 1: with the way that Portland police declare riots than the
Speaker 1: objective standard of unrest, and now many months later, Portland
Speaker 1: police still declare riots on a fairly right ular basis.
Speaker 1: It seems that Portland is set on having the first
Speaker 1: and last riot of the protests. So what happened that
Speaker 1: turned relatively normal BLM actions in Portland, which were happening
Speaker 1: in every major American city into a movement that still
Speaker 1: draws out crowds today. I'm Robert Evans and this is Uprising,
Speaker 1: a guide from Portland. My partners in this series are
Speaker 1: a team of local Portland journalists Garrison Davis, Donovan Smith,
Speaker 1: b Lake, and Elaine Kitchen. We wrote this series together
Speaker 1: and they'll be handling most of the narration. For this episode,
Speaker 1: you'll be hearing more from me too, as we've embedded
Speaker 1: audio from several of the live streams I recorded during
Speaker 1: cop riots. Right now, I'm going to hand the mic
Speaker 1: off to Donovan Smith. He's reported on politics and social
Speaker 1: justice for a wide variety of local publications, and he
Speaker 1: helped produce a documentary on gentrification. Here's Donovan. After the
Speaker 1: first night of quote unquote rioting in Portland's, a state
Speaker 1: of emergency was declared and a curfew was imposed from
Speaker 1: eight pm to six am, with the express interests of
Speaker 1: cracking down a mass gatherings of protesters. When asked if
Speaker 1: the curfew would be enforced if someone was, for example,
Speaker 1: to go grocery shopping, the Mayor's office replied, quote, the
Speaker 1: city is not interested in citing people who are going
Speaker 1: about their business, causing no harm and uninvolved in criminal conduct. Quote.
Speaker 1: But it didn't require property destruction or criminal conduct for
Speaker 1: the police to start attacking and arresting protesters on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Even before the curfew. That Saturday, thousands gathered outside the
Speaker 1: Justice Center, which had to become tradition in Portland. People
Speaker 1: marched around downtown and occupied the Street in front of
Speaker 1: the j C, the casual name given to the Justice Center.
Speaker 1: Police came out a few times throughout the day to
Speaker 1: try and get people off the street, with mixed results.
Speaker 1: This culminated with the police and riot gear tear gassing
Speaker 1: the streets and city parks around the j C while
Speaker 1: bashing people in the head with truncheons, all in broad daylight,
Speaker 1: hours before the curfew was said to begin and tears.
Speaker 1: Look at this top, hitting with this, look at look
Speaker 1: at this. Throughout downtown police and white vans targeted the
Speaker 1: largest crowd of protesters they could find, launching tear gas
Speaker 1: and stunt grenades into the crowd of people. Regular city
Speaker 1: traffic was engulfed in clouds of gas on streets which
Speaker 1: had not even been closed. Houses Portland are sleeping intents
Speaker 1: were woken by flashbangs, gas and impact grounds. As a
Speaker 1: clock struck eight pm. After telling and gassing protesters for
Speaker 1: the better part of two hours, cops kettle protesters onto
Speaker 1: a bridge, surrounding and arresting the entire crowd for being
Speaker 1: out past curfew. A total of forty eight arrests were
Speaker 1: made that night. Portland Mayor Tet Wheeler, upon his return
Speaker 1: from visiting his sick mother, extended the curfew for yet
Speaker 1: another day. On Sunday, May one, the largest crowd yet,
Speaker 1: ten thousand strong, marched across the burn Side Bridge and
Speaker 1: they downtown. As the marches approached the end of the bridge,
Speaker 1: cops were waiting on the other end, blocking their path.
Speaker 1: Once the sheer size of the crowd became apparent, the
Speaker 1: police turned tail and ran high, telling it back to
Speaker 1: the Justice Center. The crowd followed them there and attends
Speaker 1: hours long standoff followed. Eventually, the crowd thinned out enough
Speaker 1: that police were able to tear gas and flash band
Speaker 1: grenade protesters into dispersing. That night was one of the
Speaker 1: most terrifying evenings of the entire uprising, with officers hanging
Speaker 1: off of riot evans and grenading passers by seemingly at random.
Speaker 1: Mayor Wheeler extended the curfew for yet another day. At
Speaker 1: a press conference announcing his ascension, Wheeler doubled down on
Speaker 1: his law and order stance, this time with the help
Speaker 1: of Governor Kate Brown. I want to be very clear
Speaker 1: that there are open lines of communications between myself and
Speaker 1: the Governor personally, as well as between our offices. There
Speaker 1: is coordination with the Superintendent of State Police as well
Speaker 1: as the leadership of the National Guard UM. I spoke
Speaker 1: to the Governor three or four times yesterday. I did
Speaker 1: make the request on all three of those occasions for
Speaker 1: support from the National Guard. The Governor had alternative strategies
Speaker 1: that she suggested, including deploying more State police resources. We
Speaker 1: subsequently asked for additional tools that could be used in
Speaker 1: the field. That was agreed to by the Governor and supported.
Speaker 1: Based on last night, however, I agree with what the
Speaker 1: U S. Attorney has said, and I agree with what
Speaker 1: my colleagues in the Portland Police Borough have just confirmed
Speaker 1: with me, which is we do need more resources. Come Monday,
Speaker 1: June one, there was a shift in Portland protests. Instead
Speaker 1: of meeting at the Justice Center, another crowd of thousands
Speaker 1: gather on the east side of Portland's across from the river,
Speaker 1: down Town, at an aptly named concert venue Revolution Hall.
Speaker 1: After some speeches, the crowd began to march west toward downtown.
Speaker 1: The crowd near Defense with a line of riot cops
Speaker 1: behind the chain link. A young black woman at the
Speaker 1: head of the march asketon officer of the crowd could
Speaker 1: march to the j C, the police said no. Eventually,
Speaker 1: the huge march headed back to Revolution Hall and no
Speaker 1: tear gas was used. Now you have to understand at
Speaker 1: this point, a lot of the crowd had just been
Speaker 1: the last three days getting horribly tear gas, beat up
Speaker 1: and chased by the police. The thought of doing a
Speaker 1: protest and march without being assaulted by the cops felt
Speaker 1: like a nice change compared to the last three nights.
Speaker 1: But that all changed the next day, the day that
Speaker 1: would become infamously known as tear gas Tuesday. Tear gas
Speaker 1: Tuesday sucked. I had a full asthma attack. Um. I
Speaker 1: had never been subjected to tear gas before, and so
Speaker 1: I saw a cloud of tear gas, and I saw
Speaker 1: a man fall down in the cloud of tear gas,
Speaker 1: and he was struggling to get up, and so I
Speaker 1: ran in and I kind of picked him up by
Speaker 1: his shirt and then grabbed him eyes arm and pulled
Speaker 1: him out of there. And then I immediately had an
Speaker 1: asthma attack. Um, and my buddy picked me up and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's both out of there. That's Chris, a volunteer protest
Speaker 1: metic and tear Gas Tuesday was actually his second night
Speaker 1: out the mutality he witness is what got him to
Speaker 1: decide to dedicate his whole summer to helping people in
Speaker 1: the streets. I saw a girl get hit in the
Speaker 1: face with shrapnel and that was not okay. And then
Speaker 1: everybody's getting tear gassed and it was a mess, and
Speaker 1: it was the infamous tear gast Tuesday. And after that,
Speaker 1: I just kind of decided that I needed to start
Speaker 1: coming out with medical supplies because how that was handled,
Speaker 1: what people were doing to provide medicine in that moment
Speaker 1: wasn't up to a standard that I knew that I could.
Speaker 1: But let's take a step back, teas. Tuesday was a
Speaker 1: noteworthy ship for Portland protests for a multitude of reasons.
Speaker 1: It was the first day since Riot Night with no curfew,
Speaker 1: with city officials even publicly admitting to the curfew being
Speaker 1: ineffective now, and it was the first day that the
Speaker 1: protests noticeably began to splinter. Just like Monday the day before,
Speaker 1: thousands warts from Revolution Hall towards the fence, which at
Speaker 1: this point surrounded several city blocks, including the Justice Center,
Speaker 1: the Federal Courthouse, and Chapman in Loudsdale, the two city
Speaker 1: parts which faced those buildings, only this time just half
Speaker 1: the crowd turned back to Red Hall, but the other
Speaker 1: half set on chanting at the police behind the chain
Speaker 1: lenk fence. The Portland Police issue repeated warnings over loudspeakers
Speaker 1: that protesters were not to touch defense under threat of
Speaker 1: right munitions. As might be predicted, the sanctity of PPB
Speaker 1: sacred fence became an immediate source of ridicule. Even as
Speaker 1: police followed through on their threats and as members of
Speaker 1: the crowd dared to touch the fence, the PPB once
Speaker 1: again deployed an outrageous amount of tear gas. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't even the mounted tear gas that was fired off
Speaker 1: that night, but how they fired it. Several times police
Speaker 1: rushed in multiple directions, all while firing off more tear gas,
Speaker 1: creating a massive cage of poison. Police are boxing and
Speaker 1: crowded on several sides and deploying munitions into the crowd,
Speaker 1: flashbags and gas to see the anti fashes black garcas.
Speaker 1: Two other things stick out from tear gas susan, the
Speaker 1: first of which was just how many motorists driving through
Speaker 1: downtown for tear gas by Portland police There From the
Speaker 1: rooftops side gas count gas into the crowd shooting gas. Look,
Speaker 1: there's fucking tear gas. There's fucking tear gas in the
Speaker 1: middle of traffic. That was just fired from someone up
Speaker 1: on a rooftop into the mid lok traffic. Multiple times,
Speaker 1: people who are blinded by gas while driving panic and
Speaker 1: lost control of their vehicles, nearly hit people as they
Speaker 1: drove into crowds. Protesters were water bottles and medical supplies
Speaker 1: render aid to drivers who had crashed into the curves.
Speaker 1: So here we have Look how many cards there are here.
Speaker 1: All of these people are about to get tear gas.
Speaker 1: So far they're just started arking them down at us
Speaker 1: from god knows where, baby on the roof, they're just
Speaker 1: coming down from the sky. People trying to traffic coming them,
Speaker 1: trying to kick them away, trying to stop them from
Speaker 1: gassing to traffic. The other thing that sticks out is
Speaker 1: the crowd's resilience was growing. Protesters started adopting tactics seen
Speaker 1: in the Hong Kong uprising, like placing traffic cones over
Speaker 1: tear gas candisters and pouring water through the top of
Speaker 1: the cone to get the Bernie caranister out. We see
Speaker 1: people actually very effectively deploying tactics here to stop these
Speaker 1: tear gas grenades from dropping buck protusters and from gassing vehicles.
Speaker 1: A chance that became popular in the Whist to Come
Speaker 1: was walked don't run, reminding people in times of panic
Speaker 1: often the safest way out is just by walking calmly.
Speaker 1: More experienced organizers are walking calmly through the crowd, putting
Speaker 1: hands on people and saying do not run. Do not run,
Speaker 1: because the thing that hurts people in situations like this
Speaker 1: is panic. It's scary, but it probably won't seriously harm
Speaker 1: you if you don't panic, and the police aren't going
Speaker 1: to take any steps to try to avoid a stampede,
Speaker 1: So the only way to avoid a stampede is again
Speaker 1: for the crowd to take care of itself. We have
Speaker 1: seen people get so much better at reforming the crowd
Speaker 1: after being gassed. That started to really improve on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: And look, most of the people are still here, still organized,
Speaker 1: still marching, still many thousands of people. This is the
Speaker 1: first time we've seen the best job of the crowd
Speaker 1: staying together and really shilling commitment and endurance uh in
Speaker 1: the face of police brutality. So this has been a
Speaker 1: very important and a very impressive night from the activists
Speaker 1: and the citizens of Portland, Oregon. Chris, who acquired a
Speaker 1: gas mask the very next day, sums of his feelings
Speaker 1: about tear gas Tuesday like this. It was such an
Speaker 1: odd response to see the police respond to a protest
Speaker 1: about um police violence and brutality with police violence and brutality.
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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. After tear Gas Tuesday, things in Portland
Speaker 1: started to fall into a pattern. During the day, there'll
Speaker 1: be massive peaceful marches starting from Revolution Hall led by
Speaker 1: a new group called Rosal City Justice. At night, about
Speaker 1: a thousand protesters would gather at the sacred fence, which
Speaker 1: now only surrounded the Justice Center and the adjacent federal buildings,
Speaker 1: to inevitably get tear gas and attacked by police for
Speaker 1: quote tampering with the fence. Photo Journalists and photographer Mariah
Speaker 1: says some of her favorite moments of the protests were
Speaker 1: at the massive marches organized by Roal City Justice in
Speaker 1: early June. I would say like in the early days,
Speaker 1: UM really is some stuff that really is memorable to me,
Speaker 1: especially with a lot of my UM favorite photos from
Speaker 1: this whole um Um movement UM has come from the
Speaker 1: earlier days. Like there was a moment I want to
Speaker 1: say it was that Burnside Bridge when everyone was like
Speaker 1: laying down for eight minutes and forty six seconds, and UM,
Speaker 1: I got some good pictures of that, and it was
Speaker 1: just really great to capture. UM. I think that the
Speaker 1: moment when Damian Lillard came out, you know, everyone like
Speaker 1: you know, had like this slub moment in this and
Speaker 1: I got it. And at the moment actually when he
Speaker 1: came out, I didn't even know he was out there,
Speaker 1: and so I checked my photos later and I was like, oh, snap,
Speaker 1: UM got him and stuff. Activists and live streamer Max
Speaker 1: Smith attended both the larger daytime protests on the East
Speaker 1: Side and the night protests at the j C. Here
Speaker 1: he explains how he became a popular speaker at the
Speaker 1: Portland protests and the interesting effect of having both the
Speaker 1: daytime march and a nighttime action on the public. I
Speaker 1: want to say it was the set into the third
Speaker 1: that I actually got out in the streets um doing
Speaker 1: the work with the security stuff and helping out with
Speaker 1: the larger marches on the East side, the Revolution Hall
Speaker 1: things and all that. So I was kind of doing
Speaker 1: playing a couple of rolls over there with helping with
Speaker 1: the Guardian folks and doing some you know, political education
Speaker 1: at the same time. And it's it kind of just
Speaker 1: came natural. I just started talking to people and people
Speaker 1: started listening to what I'm saying, and um, on the
Speaker 1: night of the five, I got arrested downtown at the
Speaker 1: j C, um or near the around the area of
Speaker 1: the j C at least I got arrested down there.
Speaker 1: And so that weekend I ended up giving a speech
Speaker 1: at Irving Park and that's kind of where things started
Speaker 1: and ended up being like streamed on the news locally.
Speaker 1: So that's where things kind of started changing for me
Speaker 1: at that point, And can you talk to me about
Speaker 1: that you were arrested, Yeah, just didn't kind of as
Speaker 1: much detail as here because you're interested in going in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fun my, you know, it was just a basic arrest. Um.
Speaker 1: I was actually out there with a couple of people.
Speaker 1: We had been going down a couple of nights to
Speaker 1: see what was going on at the Justice Center, because
Speaker 1: you know, I have been you know, if you're just
Speaker 1: watching the news, all you see is, you know, it
Speaker 1: looks like one big march, right, Like it's one huge march.
Speaker 1: It starts in the daytime and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it descends into madness at night. But quickly I realized
Speaker 1: that there's there's multiple things that are going on. If
Speaker 1: you leave your house, you know, you get the TV,
Speaker 1: it's a lot that's going on in the streets. So
Speaker 1: I started, you know, going out to see different things.
Speaker 1: And we were down at the j C and things
Speaker 1: got really gassy. It was one of the nights. So
Speaker 1: again it was the first like you know, a few
Speaker 1: days of gassing, and I had been down there before,
Speaker 1: and this time I brought a couple different people that
Speaker 1: were like, you know, I'm trying to see it, but
Speaker 1: I'm scared. I was like, just come with me, I'll
Speaker 1: show you what's going on. It's not that big of
Speaker 1: a deal. But we ended up um catching up with
Speaker 1: some other people down there and kind of had like
Speaker 1: a little group and we were and there were a
Speaker 1: lot of like teenagers down there, and so we were
Speaker 1: actually making sure a lot of people got out because
Speaker 1: there were cops everywhere, like circling and pulling people over
Speaker 1: and stopping people and arresting him. So we were like
Speaker 1: kind of helping folks navigate their way out. And then um,
Speaker 1: as it got late, there were a bunch of people
Speaker 1: that were suffering from tear gas. And so myself in
Speaker 1: a medic and I have like a first day to
Speaker 1: training basic stuff, and so that those first nights I
Speaker 1: was out there with like you know, milk or the
Speaker 1: baking soda and water solutions and whatever else, just helping
Speaker 1: folks out. And so we were following the groans of people,
Speaker 1: you know, coughing and and being becomes a tear gas
Speaker 1: and the cops just rolled up with like four cars
Speaker 1: and officers hopped out and I got snatched up and
Speaker 1: it's got snatched up by that. I got grabbed by
Speaker 1: the hair, got young to the ground, bruised my elbow.
Speaker 1: You know. I had to creeck on my neck for
Speaker 1: a few days. But they arrested me. They drove me
Speaker 1: around a squad car for like fifteen twenty minutes. They
Speaker 1: picked up some other guy, Um, you know, they accused
Speaker 1: him of drawing on a drawing on a window with
Speaker 1: a sharpie or something, and he's like what and they
Speaker 1: were like, you know, they were trying to charge him
Speaker 1: with a felony. All of our charges got dropped. No
Speaker 1: one got charged with anything. I got charged with obstructing
Speaker 1: the police. He got charged with something else. As Mac
Speaker 1: was inside the police car, he was also able to
Speaker 1: get a sneak peek of how the police were targeting
Speaker 1: people for a rest behind the scenes. I thought it
Speaker 1: was crazy because they had this like thing in their car,
Speaker 1: like this like a heads up display like a HUT
Speaker 1: and it it it had like it had an aerial
Speaker 1: view of this of the downtown grid and it had
Speaker 1: like it was able to track people. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was it was like a call of duty to
Speaker 1: display like when you're like using like you know, the
Speaker 1: helicopter or whatever. It was like that and like you
Speaker 1: could see like the people and they were like I
Speaker 1: represented like as lights a kind of there was like
Speaker 1: a light on them. It was like a it was
Speaker 1: like a black and white display and you could see
Speaker 1: the things that are moving. But then like with people,
Speaker 1: it basically lit them up with like lights and circles.
Speaker 1: It would a circle us um if we were in groups.
Speaker 1: And when the group's got small enough and they would
Speaker 1: like a turn green and the cops were just to
Speaker 1: go and rest people. The group of protesters gathered at
Speaker 1: the fence were quick to make a distinction between quote
Speaker 1: peaceful protests and non violent protests. While the massive Rose
Speaker 1: City justice marches remained peaceful, the crowds have to j
Speaker 1: C would engage in nonviolent actions such as shaking, tearing down,
Speaker 1: and cutting apart the chain link fence. Most of what
Speaker 1: people did at the j C was just standing in
Speaker 1: the street in parks while Channey demands and slogans. But
Speaker 1: it didn't require people to tamper with the fence or
Speaker 1: throw a half drunk water bottles for the police to
Speaker 1: respond with force. As this protester can attest, I was
Speaker 1: downtown and it was back at the original fence, and
Speaker 1: you know, there was probably I probably estimate like five
Speaker 1: people there and everyone was really spread out and um,
Speaker 1: there was no police on the ground. It was raining
Speaker 1: that night, and they had their floodlights like pointed at us. Um.
Speaker 1: And one shot got fired from one of the like
Speaker 1: the little balcony areas, the one that's farther to the right,
Speaker 1: and it hit me in the leg. It was just
Speaker 1: one shot and it hit me at the like the
Speaker 1: very top of my left thigh. And I was just
Speaker 1: standing there with a group of friends like I had.
Speaker 1: There was a beach ball in the crowd that night
Speaker 1: and it said don't gas me bro, and I picked
Speaker 1: it up and I started writing on it and one
Speaker 1: shot off fired and it hit me in the leg.
Speaker 1: And that was what I would consider to be at
Speaker 1: least like protest related my first encounter with the Portland
Speaker 1: Police Bureau. No one was doing anything. No one was
Speaker 1: you know, pushing on the fencer, knocking on it, and
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Speaker 1: protests started, and for weeks he was out virtually every night,
Speaker 1: filming some of the most intense police violence and posting
Speaker 1: some of the most viral videos of the entire uprising.
Speaker 1: Here's Garrison every night. The fence at the Justice Center
Speaker 1: seemed to grow larger. The city doubled up some sections
Speaker 1: of the chain link and stacked pieces of fence on
Speaker 1: top of one another. Eventually, can barriers were added to
Speaker 1: make it harder to knock over the fence. The divides
Speaker 1: between protesters began to Widen as well. Some of the
Speaker 1: more radical leftist BLM activists in Portland criticized rosity justice
Speaker 1: and their insistence on quote peaceful protest over direct action
Speaker 1: that might damage police property. Gregory McKelvey, vice chair of
Speaker 1: organ DEM's Black Caucus and former organizer, pushed back on
Speaker 1: some of that criticism. Gregory was also organizing on a
Speaker 1: new front, now as Protest Gain Steam. He was in
Speaker 1: the home stretch of leading a grassroots style campaign for
Speaker 1: political newcomer Sarah I on our Own to take down
Speaker 1: incumbent Mayor Ted Wheeler. Many Portlanders felt Wheeler had failed
Speaker 1: on his promise to deliver fundamental change on issues of
Speaker 1: housing and please reform. Instead, Wheeler became a symbol of
Speaker 1: big money in politics more of the same. Gregory's candidate
Speaker 1: I on Our Own ran to the left of Wheeler,
Speaker 1: dubbing herself and quote everyday anti fascist. So you know, uh,
Speaker 1: we had a situation where tens of thousands of were
Speaker 1: marching every day and if you're at those events, they're
Speaker 1: just beautiful, and yeah, they're way more liberal, they're way
Speaker 1: more moderate. Um, but those people are being marched along
Speaker 1: pun intended towards a more radical place. And you know,
Speaker 1: Malcolm X said more eloquently than me that basically, UM,
Speaker 1: you know everything, you know, there was a point where
Speaker 1: you didn't UM. And so these people are on their
Speaker 1: journey just as everybody else. And just because they're not
Speaker 1: anarchists yet does not make them agents of the state. UM.
Speaker 1: And I really think that those protests are what effectively
Speaker 1: got us the UM the twenty million defunded from the police.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a moment where they were math
Speaker 1: protests and Damian Lillard was at the front of a
Speaker 1: protest UM that was in capturing the entire city. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're wondering, yes he's talking about that, Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: five time NBA l Star and Portland Trailblazers superstar point
Speaker 1: guard Damian Lillard. Yeah, he was out there too. Way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They weren't burning stuff down, um. And also some of
Speaker 1: their rhetoric was not, you know, as far left as
Speaker 1: maybe I would like or and and certainly that some
Speaker 1: people at the Justice Center would like. But I actually
Speaker 1: do think those protests were more effective and they certainly
Speaker 1: have far more support from the broad public. And we
Speaker 1: were getting people at these protests who had never protest before. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Justice Center protests should have stopped it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're ineffective per se um, but
Speaker 1: I think there's certainly much more effective if in tandem.
Speaker 1: There's also the other protests going on. So if I'm
Speaker 1: at home watching UM like Channel two, six, eight or twelve,
Speaker 1: which I had to watch a lot for my job, UM,
Speaker 1: they're not making a difference between which protesters are which protesters.
Speaker 1: They're just saying protesters merged and Damian Lillard joined them.
Speaker 1: Later in the night, protesters were gased and beaten. Right
Speaker 1: that that UM way of explaining things is really helpful
Speaker 1: for all the protesters, because is um they see that
Speaker 1: protest with Damian Lillard and they're like, oh, I support this,
Speaker 1: and then they see what they think is the same
Speaker 1: people getting gas that night, and they're like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, And that helps us move the conversation towards
Speaker 1: the funding once those massive protests go away and we
Speaker 1: only have protests that Damian Lillard is never going to
Speaker 1: be seen at now uh now they have no support
Speaker 1: from the broad public. Early June is also when most
Speaker 1: of Portland's police reforms were achieved under large pressure both
Speaker 1: locally and from the nationwide BLA movement. The Portland's public
Speaker 1: schools superintendent decided to end the school resource officer program,
Speaker 1: opting instead for an increased spending on social workers, counselors,
Speaker 1: and culturally specific mentors for students. Also historically racist Portland
Speaker 1: Police unit was also disbanded. Here's more on that from Gregory.
Speaker 1: We got rid of some of the specialty units, including
Speaker 1: the Gang Enforcement Unit are formerly known as the Gang
Speaker 1: Enforcement Unit, which kept a list of mostly black individuals
Speaker 1: that they thought were gang members. Um in it really
Speaker 1: was a circle of our injustice car strol system um
Speaker 1: and was really abhorrent and racist. And they switched their
Speaker 1: name to the Gun Violence Production Team in a branding effort,
Speaker 1: but still have the same mandate. We got rid of
Speaker 1: that specialty unit. We defunded twenty something million dollars from
Speaker 1: the police, which, um sounds like a lot, but we
Speaker 1: were defunding from a lot of different bureaus because of
Speaker 1: the pandemic in the budget shortfall in general. Alongside those
Speaker 1: small reforms in early June, Portland also saw some negative
Speaker 1: change on the road to police accountability. The officers responding
Speaker 1: to protests were told they were allowed to cover both
Speaker 1: their nametag and badge number amid fears officers would be
Speaker 1: quote docked. Lawyer Alan Kessler explains this in greater detail. So, um,
Speaker 1: there's a directive that says that the police shall display
Speaker 1: their name on their uniform unless they get special dispensation
Speaker 1: from their their command or to not do it. UM.
Speaker 1: And the police are supposed to give you a business
Speaker 1: card if you as they're supposed to identify themselves. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to give a business card which has their name
Speaker 1: and badge number on it right there. It's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be a secret police force. And the directives are
Speaker 1: there are several directives that are kind of about that
Speaker 1: uh interaction with the public. It turns out that very
Speaker 1: early in the in the protests, there was an email
Speaker 1: that was sent out that told police that it's okay
Speaker 1: for them to cover their badge and then replace it
Speaker 1: with their It's called their personnel number or perner um
Speaker 1: spelled either prn R or p r n r H.
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a weird choice, like the only
Speaker 1: the only thing that was used for before that was payroll.
Speaker 1: It's in their accounting system. Oh and also Historically, it's
Speaker 1: been used in the UH on some internal investigations of
Speaker 1: police officers alike, in internal review reports. Um. But the
Speaker 1: reason they picked it, like UH, I kind of guess
Speaker 1: us at the time, but it was suit too silly
Speaker 1: to be true, was there is a There aren't a
Speaker 1: ton of things that are exempt from the public records
Speaker 1: lot Oregon, but one thing that is exempt is UH
Speaker 1: numbers on an I D badge. Um. So somebody thought
Speaker 1: this through. Somebody who is really familiar with the public
Speaker 1: records thought this through and said, Okay, if we use
Speaker 1: the number from the I D badge as the cops
Speaker 1: badge number, then if anybody asked for the list, we'll say, no,
Speaker 1: those are secret numbers. That are you know, we have
Speaker 1: to keep them secret for the for the cops protection,
Speaker 1: which is nuts because they're wearing it out in public
Speaker 1: on their chest. But but there's like no way to
Speaker 1: trace it back in a digital form and no way
Speaker 1: for us to for sure that's right. I assume they
Speaker 1: have somewhat. The early marches had been absolutely enormous, but
Speaker 1: almost everyone there fell into the simple category of protester.
Speaker 1: There were some very overworked medics, but Portland's lacked the
Speaker 1: sheer variety of specialties among the activists that allowed Hong
Speaker 1: Kong's protest movement to persist for so long. That changed
Speaker 1: over the first few weeks of the uprising, as people
Speaker 1: who never thought of themselves as particularly radical fell into
Speaker 1: new rules. There were no longer just street medics, but
Speaker 1: shield bearing front liners, people armed with traffic cones and
Speaker 1: water to douse tear gas. Other activists provided food and equipment,
Speaker 1: and a handful of Portlanders began learning the trade of
Speaker 1: the conflict journalist, while Portland's professional press got used to
Speaker 1: packing body armor alongside their camera notebook. As an any
Speaker 1: mass movement, there was bound to be disagreements and in fighting.
Speaker 1: People had different opinions on everything from looting to dumpster fires,
Speaker 1: to how much fence shaking was acceptable, and the usefulness
Speaker 1: of large marches that stayed completely peaceful. Despite those differences,
Speaker 1: people did keep coming out day after day, night after night,
Speaker 1: for the entire first half of June. Some of those
Speaker 1: people are still coming out even now. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: six kind of personally expecting just for people just to
Speaker 1: be maybe be protesting a week to you know, not
Speaker 1: not much, and then you know, quote unquote back to
Speaker 1: normal life. But you know, yeah, and then it's been
Speaker 1: now five months, um at it. So yeah, and I
Speaker 1: kept going because my I just felt really strongly to
Speaker 1: keep going, and especially with um what I was doing,
Speaker 1: um as for photographing at all. I just had this
Speaker 1: passion that I was like, Okay, I gotta keep going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've I haven't stopped. As June wore on,
Speaker 1: the number of people out at nightly demonstrations began to drop.
Speaker 1: Crowds of thousands became crowds of hundreds. A certain mania
Speaker 1: took over the increasingly hardened core of the Portland BLM movement,
Speaker 1: who seems to feel the need to confront police every
Speaker 1: single night without pause. It exhausted many protesters and journalists.
Speaker 1: Cosca describes the feeling, well, um, yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was every night, and it was it was
Speaker 1: non stop. And I remember once, um when they when
Speaker 1: they when they had the double fences up in front
Speaker 1: of the Justice Center. I remember when some people walking
Speaker 1: away from it and they were telling me that the
Speaker 1: protest was canceled, and I said, there's no such things
Speaker 1: canceling this. I was like this to me, I was
Speaker 1: I even said it on one of my videos and
Speaker 1: sound kind of cheesy, but I was like, this feels
Speaker 1: like the energy for this rebellion is coming from some
Speaker 1: some unknown place. Like like I said, it's felt almost
Speaker 1: supernatural because it was pushing people be on their human limits.
Speaker 1: Like for me, I'm not the kind of person that will,
Speaker 1: you know, interrupt my sleep schedule for almost anything. But
Speaker 1: I didn't really sleep or eat or drink as you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do for almost two months because I was
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in yeah, what was happening. And then
Speaker 1: I didn't know that for a while. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that other cities were still protesting for a long time
Speaker 1: because you know, I didn't even have time to check
Speaker 1: the news because it would take me. You know, since
Speaker 1: I'm older, it takes me longer to recover from that
Speaker 1: of the whole you know what, I would be recovering
Speaker 1: the whole time, not protesting while I was not protesting,
Speaker 1: to be recovering from protesting, that pretty much all I
Speaker 1: did for almost two months. Looking back on the early
Speaker 1: days of the uprising, you can see all the little
Speaker 1: things that happened in order to transform this into more
Speaker 1: than just a regular protest. Every day. The brutality from
Speaker 1: the previous night rekindled people's desire for change. Repeated tear
Speaker 1: gassings forced the crowd to get good at reforming after
Speaker 1: being dispersed. As the days turned into weeks, protesters started
Speaker 1: mirroring Hong Kong tactics. More and more established activist groups
Speaker 1: provided support for new activists with new ideas. On June,
Speaker 1: inspired by Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Portland protesters announced
Speaker 1: plans for an autonomous zone of their own. This a
Speaker 1: Z was limited to a single city block in front
Speaker 1: of Mayor Ted Wheeler's luxury condo, where protesters set up tents,
Speaker 1: ate pizza, and played dance music late into the night.
Speaker 1: The Portland police ousted the occupation early the following morning,
Speaker 1: but protesters were clearly learning valuable lessons. Drinks, pizza, medical support,
Speaker 1: and a speaker system arrived within the first hour of
Speaker 1: the occupation. Barricades went up soon after, followed by the
Speaker 1: arrival of the Autonomous zones very own porta potty. By
Speaker 1: the time the police swept through in the early morning,
Speaker 1: a surprising amount of infrastructure had been set down in
Speaker 1: a very short amount of time. That action ultimately failed,
Speaker 1: but as protests continued through the city, infrastructure would spring
Speaker 1: up again and again. Throughout the first half of June.
Speaker 1: A framework was put in place that would transform Portland's
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter protests into a movement that could hold
Speaker 1: on and dig in for more than half a year.
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