1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Damage around the courthouse. Up up until July, there was 2 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: relatively little on a national level that separated Portland's b 3 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 1: l M protests from the ones happening everywhere else. A 4 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: few shots of tear gas walls had gone viral in 5 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: the mainstream media, and live streams of Portland protests were 6 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: popular among a certain set, but as far as the 7 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: big networks were concerned, Portland was just another city convulsed 8 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: with riots in the summer of That all changed in July. 9 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: It started with the siege of the Federal Courthouse on 10 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: July four. While that was going on in the streets 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: of the Rose City up north in Seattle, an activist 12 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: named Summer Taylor died that night after a car plowed 13 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,959 Speaker 1: through a b l M march. On the eighth. Activists 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: in Portland staged a memorial vigil for Taylor. This was 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: disrupted by a small squad of federal agents who hit 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: the crowd with flash bangs and impact rounds as they 17 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: lit candles. Feelings were raw, but the crowd gathered near 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: the Justice Center that night numbered less than a hundred. 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: You could be forgiven for thinking that the Battle of 20 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: July four had been the last gasp of a dying movement. 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: Outside of the attack on the vigil, the rest of 22 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: the week followed the same pattern established in June, tiny 23 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: groups of ragged activists being horribly beaten by riot lines 24 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: of cops. It was exactly one week later, on July eleven, 25 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: that everything changed. That night, a twenty six year old 26 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: protester named Donovan Labella was shot in the head at 27 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: close range by a U S marshal armed with an 28 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: impact weapon. His skull was shattered. Donovan nearly died. Video 29 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: of the unprovoked attack went viral nationwide. Our own Garrison Davis, 30 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: was standing just a few feet behind Donovan when he 31 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: was shot. Here's how Garrison recalls that night. So I 32 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: got downtown around nine pm, kind of just a regular 33 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: time to arrive Usually that's like a bit before action starts. 34 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: But when I got there, the streets around the courthouse 35 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,679 Speaker 1: and Justice Center were already filled with tear gas. Um, 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: there was already feds out in the streets. Um, it 37 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: was unclear what got them out. Um it turns out 38 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: it's just because people were on the were on like 39 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: the courtyard. So there's already already people in the streets 40 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: and stuff and Feds in the streets by the time 41 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: I arrived. And then the Feds got pushed back into 42 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: uh into like the courtyard by a small group of 43 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: activists UM on like fourth Avenue. And then they started 44 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: when when the Feds were on the courtyard, they just 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: started shooting like canisters from their grenade launcher. So, yeah, 46 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: this is like I don't know, I've only been there 47 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: like ten minutes at this point. All this is happening 48 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: very very quickly. UM, and the Feds shoot off like 49 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: five canisters in a row that are all like duds, 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: they don't actually do anything. UM. And one of them 51 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: lands underneath the car, and a young man holding a 52 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: boombox kind of like kicks it out from under the 53 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: car because it was like sparking, but it wasn't like 54 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: doing anything. It wasn't like exploding or shooting off any gas. 55 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: And then after he after he get kicked it out 56 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: of the out of under the car, he picked up 57 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: just to boombox and was standing in the standing on 58 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: the sidewalk across the street from the courthouse. I was 59 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: like five feet was right, and then he just got 60 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: shot in the head. Um. After Yeah, it was just 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: just standing there with the boom box and he collapsed 62 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: claps on the ground. I remember hearing. I mean I 63 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: heard that the shot, and I heard the fall. I 64 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: didn't see him fall, and but by the time I 65 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: looked over, um, she was on the ground, bleating out 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: of his head. And you know, very quickly people came 67 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: over and grabbed him. The thing, the thing that sticks 68 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: out most is when when they when they grabbed him 69 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: and pulled him away, just how limp his body was like, 70 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: it was a very lifeless body. His head was like 71 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: bobbing everywhere, which probably wasn't you know, it wasn't great. Um. 72 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: You should you know, when you're picking someone up like that, 73 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: you should try to make sure that doesn't happen. Um. 74 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: But yeah, it was, it was, it was. He was 75 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: just so lifeless. Um in that in that moment um 76 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: they took him into the into the park, semitics started, 77 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: you know, people, people yelled, medic medic. Medics came over 78 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: started to you know, try to stop the bleeding, and 79 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: an ambiliance came about like ten fifteen minutes later. But 80 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: like it, it felt it felt a lot longer. You know, 81 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: it felt like they were taking forever to arrive. Um, 82 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 1: but there's a lot, a lot of blood on the sidewalk, 83 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of blood in the park. 84 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: The grass was like soaked. Donovan very nearly died from 85 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: his injuries. As we write this episode in December, he's 86 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: just recently been released from the hospital following another round 87 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: of treatment for the infections caused by his injuries. He 88 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: has suffered permanent cognitive damage. The brutality with which Donovan 89 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: was assaulted enraged Portlanders, even those would not previous e 90 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: been active in the streets. Rage was further stoked by 91 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: poor coverage by local mainstream sources like The Oregonian, who 92 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: responded to this brutal attack on a young man wielding 93 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: a boom box by grenade launcher wielding FEDS with an 94 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,679 Speaker 1: article full of expert analysis on why it had happened. 95 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: Those experts included a retired commander with the Los Angeles 96 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department who insisted the shot, which was taken from 97 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: about thirty feet away, had to have been an accident. Quote. 98 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: Nobody anywhere in the world that I am aware of, 99 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: is taught to aim for the head unless deadly forces 100 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: also authorized in this particular case, there was no rational 101 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: way to say that deadly force was authorized. Overall, the 102 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: article was crafted to leave the reader with the opinion 103 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: that Labella's injuries must have been a tragic accident in 104 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: the heat of the moment, rather than an angry and 105 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: undisciplined federal agent choosing to permanently injure a twenty six 106 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: year old armed with speakers. The good news is that 107 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: no one bought it. Portlanders were outraged by what happened 108 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,119 Speaker 1: to Donovan. More protesters began to trickle into the nightly 109 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: demonstrations out side the Justice Center, which switched their attention 110 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: to the adjacent Federal courthouse. Conor O'sha had gotten his 111 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: start attending Rose City justice marches. He switched over to 112 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: attending the nightly confrontations against the police after he got 113 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: bored of marches that seemed to go nowhere. They'd be like, wait, 114 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: what's going down by the Justice Center and what's happening 115 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: over there? I want to go over there? Why is 116 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: everybody going back home? Like the sun is still out? 117 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: Like this is I want to go see what's happening 118 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: over there, And then started doing that and then was like, yeah, 119 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: this feels right this feels like you know, like not 120 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: not to say like that, um, you know, having h 121 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: march during the day with like speeches like like you know, 122 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: all the protesting is valid, but I was definitely attracted 123 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: to like showing up at the sources like the biggest, 124 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: the gnarliest symbols of what what people are protesting against. 125 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: Connor watched as the protest dwindled, and he saw how 126 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: the introduction of heavily armed federal agents and the outrage 127 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: over Donovan's injury started drawing more people out into the streets. 128 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: Before the Feds showed up, Um, it really felt like 129 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: we were losing a lot of not necessarily momentum. But 130 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: just like people showing up, numbers were kind of coming 131 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: down a little bit is to be expected. But yeah, 132 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: when they did make an appearance, like aggressive appearances, it 133 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: totally it was it totally served as a catalyst for 134 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: further like like when when they shouldn't know by now, 135 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: like when they show up, uh you know, cops and feds. Um, 136 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: when they when they show their face, it's like almost 137 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: always worst um like in terms of like a crowd response, um, 138 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: which I kind of love. UM. So so when they 139 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: showed up. It was like like almost immediately everyone was 140 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: like turning turning back up UM in huge numbers. So 141 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: that was it was just so funny to me that 142 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: they that they kind of kept doing what they were 143 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: doing UM when the crowd response was just getting amplified 144 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: by their presence. Many in the movement were rejuvenated by 145 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: the fact that protest numbers were growing again. After so 146 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: many nights of watching Tinier and Tinier groups get brutalized 147 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: by the Portland police, it was stirring to feel like 148 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: people cared again. Mark Pettibone's first night out had been 149 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: June one, and like Connor, he'd been dismayed as numbers 150 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: fell off throughout that month. He kept coming out though, 151 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: and he was out protesting near the Federal Courthouse with 152 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: Connor when the night of July fourteenth turned into the 153 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: early morning of July. It was actually a relatively uneventful 154 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: night in terms of sho between protesters and the cops. UM. 155 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: The uh PPB showed up i think once to kind 156 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: of remove some barricades that people have set up in 157 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: the street in front of the UM the courthouse, and 158 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: the Feds made a really kind of quick uh they 159 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: came out of the building to um, if you're facing 160 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: the Justice Center, that came out the building to the 161 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: right briefly and then retreated back in. And so honestly, 162 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: that night I spent what I remember from uh early 163 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: in the night was I was playing frisbee with people 164 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: in the park. We were just hanging out. Um. There 165 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: wasn't much too kind of be angry at um, at 166 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: least visibly, the Feds weren't out and about. Uh So 167 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: Mark and I were like, all right, this has been good. 168 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: It's been fine, I guess, um, not much going on. 169 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: Let's get out of here. We've got to work tomorrow. 170 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: We just we had just gotten out of work a 171 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: couple hours before, so, like midnight or one clock rolls 172 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: around and we're leaving, and as we're walking back to 173 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: his car, we kind of get stopped by some protesters 174 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: on the corner of the street there just a couple 175 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: of blocks away, and uh they warned us that they 176 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: had seen or that people had seen unmarked vans kidnapping people. Um. 177 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: And so we're we're looking around, and sure enough, right 178 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: then a van pulls up right in front of us, 179 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,319 Speaker 1: seemingly out of nowhere. Um, and a bunch of guys 180 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: in military fatigues jump out. I look in it. I'm like, oh, 181 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: they're probably FEDS. I don't know. It's a it's a 182 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: fucking minivan full of guys and fatigues. Cameo fatigues. Uh. 183 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: They opened the doors. Everybody but the driver it's out. 184 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: They start they start just walking straight towards us. Uh, 185 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: and we're like, what what the what? What? What the fuck? 186 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: And there's you know, there's traffic behind us. UM. I 187 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: remember Mark and I like almost getting hit by a 188 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: car that had to stop because we're like, oh, I 189 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: think we need to run. So we all take off 190 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: in different directions. You know, there's no no identification, um 191 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: visually and also audibly. You know, they didn't say stop, 192 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: we are you know so and so it was just 193 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: immediate and uh so we we kind of you know, 194 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: we ran for our lives. And they ended up the 195 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: people and the fatigues who ended up being the FEDS. 196 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: They chased me down, one one chased me down on foot. UM. 197 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: So I ran, I'll see west and made it a 198 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: few blocks, took a turn and heard the van kind 199 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: of accelerating up the hill cut me off. And so 200 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: I dropped to my knees and I asked why, UM 201 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: several times. That was all I could form. Honestly, I 202 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: wasn't like why, why is this happening? And am I 203 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: being detained? It was just why? And uh So they 204 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: lifted me up, UM, off my knees, put me in 205 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: the van, UM, pulled my beanie over my head, patted 206 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: me down. UM asked if I had weapons, and you know, 207 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: I said no. Uh. And at this point, I I 208 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: it was kind of this weird you know, people always 209 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: talking about these out of body experiences and I, you know, 210 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: I had no experience with any of that until this happened. 211 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: Mark booked it. Um west, I went south. I was 212 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: kind of running next to somebody for a minute, uh, 213 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: like you know, maybe fifteen ten seconds, and then I 214 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: cut up another kind of a block web. After I 215 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: got one block south. I think the FED that was 216 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: the FED or FEDS that were after me and this person, 217 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: Like I think they either went after that person or 218 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: like they forgot about me or something. Maybe it was 219 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: just because I was able to run faster. I huck 220 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: my sign that I've been carrying, got it back the 221 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: next morning. That was cool. UM hucked my sign that 222 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: I was carrying, and UM running up another block. UH, 223 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: fucking like scared for my life, I was able to 224 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: be like, I just don't talk to these people. UM. 225 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: At this point I was pretty sure that it was 226 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: the FEDS, UM, and it wasn't some kind of rogue, 227 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: you know, militia group. And I figured the best thing 228 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: for me to do at that point it was just 229 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: to shut up and um and get through and asked 230 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: for a lawyer when the time comes. UM. At that point, 231 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: I hit a dark street and I see what is 232 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: either that same van or a different van cut across 233 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: in front of me going north. I think that was 234 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: they were trying to find Mark. And at that point 235 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: I looked looked over and saw I forget what the 236 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: name of the it was another courthouse, of course, because 237 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: there's like a d down there. UM. I I look 238 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: at this like concrete um railing whatever you wanna call that, 239 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: um out front of this courthouse. And I'm like there 240 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: and okay, yeah there, I'm going to jump this. I 241 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: sprint across once the van gets out of sight, because 242 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: they started to loop back around the block. Yeah, sprint 243 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: jump over it, jump over the little barricade and UM. 244 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: At this point I didn't I was sure they were 245 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: going to get me. UM. The only thing I could 246 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: think to do was to shut my phone off, which 247 00:14:55,160 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: I now no can still be traced, which is also horrific. 248 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: But I have a Faraday bag for that now, so 249 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: that's great. UM. But I shut my phone off. I 250 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: hear more like another banner to assume, UM driving by 251 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: like very kind of erratically, like gunning it and then 252 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: slowing down. I heard like that. I think that was them. 253 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: I'm not positive. I heard someone in in like boots 254 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: with some jingling going on walk past. UM. I just 255 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: like tucked up against this barricade, UM and was just 256 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: like as quiet as I could be for I don't 257 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: know how long, half hour, an hour, until I was 258 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: able to get in touch with a friend. They booked 259 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: it across the river. They showed up. I they opened 260 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: the back door of this car, jumped in, stayed laying 261 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: on my back like I don't I don't think we 262 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: covered me up with anything, but it was like, yeah, 263 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: it was terrifying enough to be like, I don't know 264 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: why why they targeted at us, So yeah, I got 265 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: out of there and then get a call from Mark 266 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: relatively quickly after I got to the other side of 267 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: the river. I was like, like, because we we friends 268 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: were texting, I think like Emily and and another friend 269 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: of ours. Like we were like, they were like, we can't, 270 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: we can't get in touch with Mark. We think they 271 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: got him. They did have Mark, but thankfully he'd broken 272 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: absolutely no law. The agents who had snatched him had 273 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: probably hoped that he'd be rattled enough by the whole 274 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: experience to answer whatever questions they asked. When he refused 275 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: to talk without a lawyer present, they had no choice 276 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: but to let him go. The whole thing took about 277 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: two hours, maybe even less. And uh so I was 278 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: released with one other person, and I believe it was 279 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: one of the protesters that I had been standing next 280 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: to um in the street when the vans first pulled up. Um. 281 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: I think they ended up picking them up as well. 282 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: So they released the two of us at the same time. 283 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: And you know this is after they read me my 284 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: rights once I was shackled and in a cell um 285 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: and asked if I wanted to waive them UM, and 286 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: I said no, I want to talk to the lawyer. UM. 287 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: So after that they came by again and said, okay, 288 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: you're free to go. That same night, a local activist 289 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: filmed federal agents and camouflage and military gear snatching another 290 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: black clad protester and dragging him into an unmarked rental van. 291 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: The video was horrifying, the kind of blatantly dystopian police 292 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,959 Speaker 1: state ship that couldn't not provoke a national response, and 293 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: it did. Within a day, the video had been viewed 294 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: millions and millions of times. The story broke nationwide in 295 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: the seventeen when The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and basically every 296 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: major news source reported on Portland's federal snatch fans. Now 297 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: we have some video that was posted to Twitter from 298 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: last night. The Post says that federal officers rushed up 299 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: and arrested someone for no reason. Unmarked police vehicles they're 300 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: not even they're not police vehicles, they're just vehicles. They're 301 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: rentable vans. They're like consumer rentable vans filled with guys 302 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: in paramilitary gear who are supposedly federal policemen. Unmarked vans 303 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: of unleashed tear gas into crowds, rounded up and detained protesters, 304 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: and even shot one man in the head with a 305 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: non lethal round, causing serious injury. Their presence and their 306 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: tactics have raised questions about the use of federal agencies 307 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: to police cities, even when local authorities don't want them there. 308 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: We Ddovan LaBelle Is shooting had enraged people, but it 309 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: was the federal snatch fans that would finally radicalize thousands 310 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: of Portland's liberal majority to take to the streets. It 311 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: was on the night of the first group of what 312 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: would become the Wall of Moms showed up to protest 313 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: the Feds. We'll talk about them in a second, but 314 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: first here's Garrison to explain another important action that occurred 315 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: the same night. The militarized FEDS had captured Portland's imagination. 316 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: But as the Quote fed war started to ramp up, 317 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: protesters who had been fighting the police for weeks didn't 318 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: want people to forget the reason all of this had 319 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: happened in the first place. They organized a rally simply 320 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: titled Quote Abolished the Police for June eighteenth at Peninsula 321 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: Park in North Portland. The event was boosted by groups 322 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: such as the YLF and Direct Action Alliance, people who 323 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: were generally trusted within the community of veteran activists. The 324 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: last time a protest had been held at Peninsula Park 325 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: was June. The crowd had marched to the Portland Police 326 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: Association building, which had been surrounded by dozens of armed cops. 327 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: Police quickly pushed the crowd away using Truncheon's, grenade launchers 328 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: and tear gas. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that the 329 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: crowd of several hundred who showed up on the eighteenth 330 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: came expecting a fight. Banners at the front of the 331 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: march included quote, Chad Wolfe listens to Nickelback, mocking the 332 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: acting DHS director, who had just visited Portland a few 333 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: days prior and also spoke with the p p A. 334 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: Other banners read de colonize and mourned the dead fight 335 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: like hell for the living. One banner read Quantas Hayes 336 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: was only seventeen years old. In February seen Portland police 337 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: shot and killed Quantas Hayes, an unarmed, teenage black Portlander. 338 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: When they shot Kawanas, he was on his knees ten 339 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: to fifteen feet away from officers, aiming guns and shouting 340 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: contradictorary commands. Officer Andrew Hurst, who was providing quote long 341 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: cover with his air fifteen fired three shots at the 342 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: teen when Kuanas reportedly moved his hands from above his head. 343 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: At the same time Kuanas was shot from moving his hands, 344 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: other officers were ordering him to get face down on 345 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: the ground with his hands by his sides. The Portland 346 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: Police use of force investigation found no wrongdoing on the 347 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: part of Officer Andrew Hurst. He still walks around with 348 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: a badge and a gun today. The lead use of 349 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 1: force investigator on that case was Detective Eric camemer but 350 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: Portland protesters might know him better as the notorious Officer 351 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 1: sixties seven. Speaking as a journalist who has watched the 352 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: Portland Police riot team and action, officer Camemra is quite 353 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: possibly the most violent man I have ever met. All 354 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: of this was on the mind of the press in attendance. 355 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: When the crowd departed Peninsula Park at around eight pm, 356 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: we suspected they would head straight for the Police Union building, 357 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: but that's not what happened. The people at the front 358 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: of the march headed in that direction at first, but 359 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: as the crowd got close to the union building, they 360 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: made a sudden turn, confusing the police and probably some protesters. 361 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 1: The march went on southward for about half an hour, 362 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: chanting along the way. Soon enough, the crowd arrived at 363 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: the surprise destination, the Portland Police North Precinct. Only a 364 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: handful of officers were present when the group of marchers 365 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: approached the building, and said officers quickly moved inside. As 366 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: they did, hundreds of people chanted quit Your Job protesters 367 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: hung out in the precinct parking lot for almost an hour. 368 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: Officers had been so surprised by their arrival that a 369 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: police car was left sitting unattended in the middle of 370 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: the crowd. It was tagged with graffiti and a bananappeal 371 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: was placed on its hood, but nothing else. As was inevitable, 372 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: The police el red eventually arrived and ordered the crowd 373 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: to leave under threat of arrest and tear gas. On 374 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: previous evenings, the crowd would have just stood around, defiant 375 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: and waiting to get all beaten up and gassed, But 376 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: tonight was different. As the el rad blared threats, people 377 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: in the crowd yelled b water, echoing a Hong Kong slogan, 378 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: and the crowd began to move once again back to 379 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: North mL. Cable of art fether to follow this direction, 380 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: based up a que to arrest. The citation are used 381 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: of more, including crowd control munitions. The tactical decision to 382 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: move after the el Rad's warning apparently bamboozled the police, 383 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: as the nearly five hundred protesters were able to swiftly 384 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: march north to the completely unguarded p p A building. 385 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: Dumpsters were overturned to block the street, and protesters in 386 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: black block assembled a makeshift battering ram out of random 387 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: materials nearby. No one said anything, but the crowd knew 388 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: what was about to happen. People were going to enter 389 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: the Police Union building. Dumpster fires were started to block 390 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: the police from seeing what was happening. In due time, 391 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: the el Red arrived and an audibly nervous El Red 392 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: operator ordered people not to enter the p p A 393 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: police He visit the redial area. We noticed criminal activity 394 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: occurring in this crowd at the office. You'll be study 395 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: to arrest or support them, to include crowd control munitions. 396 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: But for the Portland police it was too little, too late. 397 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: People had already broken through the front door of the 398 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: Police Union building and lit a small fire inside. As 399 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: soon as the riot police arrived, the crowd began dispersing. 400 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: People had no desire to fight the cops. This night, 401 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: they'd achieved their goal and now it was time to run. 402 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: Like how police chase the crowd for a few blocks, 403 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: shooting off tear gas, tackling and arresting anyone they could 404 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: get their hands on during bullrushes. As the dwindling group 405 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: of protesters entered residential side streets, it was more difficult 406 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: for the police to follow and easier for small affinity 407 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: groups to break off and disperse. It was in these 408 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: residential streets that the vast majority of protesters successfully lost 409 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: not only the cops, but also the small group of 410 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: journalists who were jogging to keep up. When we interviewed 411 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: some folks with the y LS, the Youth Liberation Front, 412 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: they mentioned this night as a sort of turning point 413 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: for some protesters. Newer people realized what could be done 414 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: by a crowd that was cunning and disciplined and committed 415 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: to not getting the pists beaten out of them by 416 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: the police. Here's the y LS as a reminder, we 417 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,479 Speaker 1: redubbed the audio due to the constant death threats against 418 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: these literal children. I think eventually people just got burnt 419 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: out and realized like something had to change. And we 420 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: did start like making Twitter threads suggesting some changes, and 421 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 1: so maybe that push things in that direction. And I 422 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: think people have started to have been sizing up the 423 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: opponents more realistically and finding cops may have worked in 424 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: like the first few days of the uprising, but we 425 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 1: honestly like in the protests that are happening now, they 426 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: don't have enough resources to like effectively push them back, 427 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: and the cops have a bunch of experience with crowd controls. 428 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: So yeah, and I think I think now, like since 429 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: all this time has passed, there's enough points that you 430 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: can point to and see this was an effective tactic 431 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: in reference to being water, like the first time p 432 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: PA was set on fire, the way people were able 433 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: to move in and out, and I don't remember how 434 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: many people got arrested that night, but it was it 435 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: was definitely, I mean, it was definitely less than the 436 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: normal amount. And I think that was the big first 437 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: instance of people being able to point this tactic used 438 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: in Portland and be like see effectiveness this worked. That's 439 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: got people home safe to an extent. We mentioned quote 440 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: being water a few times now. This was a term 441 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: for a tactic used during the Hong Kong uprising. It 442 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,239 Speaker 1: derives its name from a famous Bruce Lee quote that 443 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: Hong Kong activists repurposed as a guide for how to 444 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: move in situations where police are chasing you. The quote 445 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: reads like this, be like water making its way through 446 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: the cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, 447 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: and you shall find your way around it or through it. 448 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: If nothing within you stays rigid outward, things will disclose 449 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: themselves empty. Your mind be formless, shapeless, like water. If 450 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. 451 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: You put water into a bottle, and it becomes the bottle. 452 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. 453 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: Now water can flow or can crash? Be water, my friend. 454 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: Here's how the Wire Left describes Portland's process of learning 455 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: to be water. To some extent, it was being exposed 456 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,959 Speaker 1: to the tactics of the Hong Kong protest, but a 457 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: lot of doctrines weren't really adopted. But I think also 458 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: there has been a lot of trial and air because 459 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: people have tried a lot of stuff that didn't work 460 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: and they got their ship fucked. And I just think 461 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: that has been the best way to learn what works, 462 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: especially in our unique conditions. I think a big part 463 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: of people embracing becoming water that as a tactic was 464 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: getting fed up with getting her kicked out of them 465 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: well like like I mean, okay, I mean staying and 466 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: fighting the police is usually not the right tactical decision 467 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: because in Portland we have an extremely militarized police force 468 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: and they're always going to be better equipped than us. 469 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: That's is how it's going to be. And so you 470 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: have to think about, like what am I What is 471 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: the risk versus the reward of staying and fighting this 472 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: cop versus just disappearing in the night to fight another day. 473 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: And I think that goes hand in hand with the 474 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: decentralization of the movement when like you know, when it 475 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 1: had like when there were marches with people leading with 476 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,479 Speaker 1: megaphones walking around and then suddenly the police show up 477 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: and you have your conflict. People didn't have the agency 478 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: or their own agency to really disappear into the night 479 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 1: and move on from that, like people felt obligated to 480 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: follow somebody. So I definitely think that played a role 481 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: in Portland moving towards decentralization also played a role in that. 482 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: Now my colleague, Beatrix is going to explain what happened 483 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: in downtown Portland in front of the Justice Center in 484 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: the Federal Courthouse at the same time as the rally 485 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: at the Portland Police Association. While about five hundred people 486 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: had gathered in North Portland don ight, around a thousand 487 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: had gathered downtown at the Justice Center and the adjacent 488 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: Federal Courthouse. Signs reading Unquelled referenced the statement by President 489 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: Ump days earlier that Portland had been out of control 490 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: and that federal presence had very much quelled it. On 491 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: the six, Homeland Security Director Chad Wolfe had made national 492 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: headlines when he visited Portland and referred to protesters there 493 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: as violent anarchists sixty times. In a single press statement 494 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: discussing the use of fireworks by protesters on ly four, 495 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: Wolfe declared, perhaps prophetically, a federal courthouse is a symbol 496 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: of justice. To attack it is to attack America. Quick 497 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: historical footnote here in September of federal judge rule that 498 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: Chad Wolfe was likely unlawfully serving as acting Director of 499 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: Homeland Security during the entirety of his tenure in that position. 500 00:29:50,800 --> 00:30:05,719 Speaker 1: We during Wolf's visit Mayor Wheeler had said that he 501 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: and all city officials would refuse to meet with the 502 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: DHS head if invited. However, the day after Wolf's visit, 503 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: the Portland Mercury reported that Darryl Turner, the head of 504 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: the Portland Police Association, had met Chad Wolf without approval 505 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: from either the mayor or the police chief. Chief level 506 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: would not say definitively whether any officers had met with DHS, 507 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: but photos showed uniformed PPB officers speaking to Chad Wolf 508 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: during his visit. The action targeting the Portland Police Association's 509 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: union headquarters in North Portland was one response to these events. 510 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: The protests downtown, likewise, were driven by anger over Donovan Labella, 511 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: federal overreach, and the federal snatch fans. While the North 512 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: Portland crowd was made up of mostly experienced activists, the 513 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: folks of the Justice Center represented a broader cross section 514 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: of Portlanders. Several images from the eighteenth went viral, both 515 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: nationwide and locally, and would bring more of the city's 516 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: liberal majority out into the streets. One such video showed 517 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: a fifty three year old Christopher David surrounded by tear 518 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: gas approaching armored federal agents. According to mister David, a 519 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: Navy veteran, he wanted to ask the men how they 520 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: felt about violating their constitutional oath. Instead, the video shows 521 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: one of the agents gripping his baton two handed like 522 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: a baseball bat, and smashing it into David's arms and 523 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: legs five times. Another agent then steps forward and maces 524 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,719 Speaker 1: David in the face as he stands motionless. He walks 525 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: away after the attack, middle fingers raised on his broken hands. 526 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: As of this recording, video of the assault has been 527 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: viewed more than fifteen million times. Another viral moment came 528 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: when a group of about forty people calling themselves Moms 529 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: against police brutality and dressed in white or horribly tear 530 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: gassed by federal agents. Videos of the attack incensed thousands 531 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,959 Speaker 1: of Portlanders and led to the creation of the famous 532 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: Wall of Moms. Courtney is an indigenous Hawaiian Portlander. She's 533 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: one of the moms who came out on July eighteenth. 534 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: Here's what she recalls. It was like a smaller It 535 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: wasn't as big as like the after when it started 536 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: to really take off. It was probably like twenty left 537 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: at that point, and definitely didn't know what I like 538 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: I had no idea what to walk into. What I 539 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: was walking into. I mean, I've been protesting before, especially 540 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: for like land rights and things like that and what, 541 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: but not like anything against police brutality and things like that. 542 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: So I'm like, just, you know, we roll up and 543 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: then not even not probably like two or three hours later, 544 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: but like the fads come out and just start shooting 545 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: at us. And that was and I was like the 546 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: frontline then because I didn't know what I was walking into. 547 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: I just didn't know like what, I had no idea 548 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: what was going to happen. I had seen the videos 549 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: the night before, but like I you know, I just 550 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect. I didn't think it was 551 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: going to be as violent as it was. Um So, yeah, 552 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: that night, like they guessed the ship out of everyone 553 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: as always, but that they actually got hit by like 554 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: rubber bullets that night. I still have a scar from 555 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: like a pepper ball like on my shoulder from the 556 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: first night that I want to out and oh yeah 557 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,719 Speaker 1: that was my that was my first night out. Corney 558 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: recalls being struck by the extremity of the violence, how 559 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: sudden and overwhelming it all was. I honestly like just 560 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: did expect. Um. I didn't expect the close range shooting. 561 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 1: First of all, I didn't expect like the amount of 562 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,879 Speaker 1: gas that they were using on people. Um. I just 563 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 1: you know, it's different when you're like watching it on 564 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: like a stream versus like actually being there in person, 565 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: especially if there was like the line that we were 566 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 1: standing in the first night that I was there, there 567 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: was probably like seven of us, and they there were 568 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: like ten Feds just shooting at all of us just 569 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: standing there like trying to like guard yourselves behind an umbrella. 570 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: And they clearly knew that there were like moms out 571 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: there because that was the night where we're all like 572 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,840 Speaker 1: wearing yellow and like we were standing out and it 573 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: was majority of us were just females standing there, and 574 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: they just did not get like if they just they 575 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,479 Speaker 1: just did not care. It didn't matter, it didn't matter, 576 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: and um, so that was shocking. I definitely, like I 577 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 1: don't think that I've processed really anything that's gone on, 578 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: um and just like check it away for another day. 579 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I just I didn't expect the like 580 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: the extremity of it. Within hours of the first major 581 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: gassing by federal troops, a DHS memo was leaked to 582 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: The New York Times revealing that the Feds in the 583 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 1: courthouse had not been properly trained with any of the 584 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 1: riot control munitions they were using. Instead, the DHS officers 585 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:40,359 Speaker 1: had been responding to unarmed protesters with military tactics rather 586 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: than mere dispersal. The goal was shock and awe, to 587 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: shatter all resistance with a display of overwhelming violence that 588 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: would leave its targets frightened and broken. Instead, as Costco describes, 589 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: Portland took away a very different message. I felt it 590 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: felt disgusting to me. It felt they mean, even though 591 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 1: I knew they worked at military, they felt like the military, 592 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: because they all looked like the military. They're all to 593 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: me all looked really young too, and they were very uh, 594 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: They're very aggressive and very quick to act in violence. 595 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: To me, they seem more afraid about us than like 596 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: Portland police were you ever seemed afraid of us? And 597 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: so I think I don't know if that made them 598 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 1: react and fear more, but they were definitely more aggressive, 599 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: and I knew it was going to turn into a circus. 600 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:45,160 Speaker 1: The following night, July, well over one thousand people filled 601 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: Chapman in Loundesdale the two parks in front of the 602 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: Federal Courthouse and the Justice Center. The group of moms, 603 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,800 Speaker 1: now in matching yellow t shirts and helmets, numbered in 604 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 1: the hundreds. It was easily the largest crowd since the 605 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: end of the Rose City Justice daytime marches. Medics came through, 606 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 1: handing out tear gas wipes and eye flash bottles and 607 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 1: the mom's linked arms before moving to form a living 608 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: wall facing the fence recently erected around the mark O. 609 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: Hatfield's Courthouse. Many of the people who came out that 610 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: night were new to the confrontation downtown. As Dmitria Hester 611 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: describes it, they were greeted as welcome reinforcements because we 612 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: knew all was coming. As black people, we know the 613 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: torture and the abused that the police give us, so 614 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: we were very prepared. We had respirators, we had math, 615 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,359 Speaker 1: we had helmets. We made sure that all the mom 616 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: had equipment and everything they needed to get through the night. 617 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: From the open doors of the courthouse, agents and battle 618 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,280 Speaker 1: dress could be seen moving into position in the darkened 619 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,320 Speaker 1: lobby as the Feds very own el rad warned against 620 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,880 Speaker 1: attempts to damage then behind the wall of moms in yellow. 621 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: The rest of the crowd was also getting into position, 622 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: and a chant of Feds go home was taken up 623 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:15,240 Speaker 1: by hundreds of voices. Unlike the enormous daytime rallies from June, 624 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,879 Speaker 1: this crowd had not come to march. After more than 625 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: an hour of chanting and singing, answered by scattered pepper 626 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 1: balls and flashbangs from the Feds, a few sections of 627 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: the fence were removed by protesters, and soon the whole 628 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,399 Speaker 1: fence came down. That night, the crowd fell back under 629 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,920 Speaker 1: the ensuing tear gas barrage. Federal agents advanced through the 630 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: park and protesters retreated, but slowly and with a smattering 631 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 1: of shields and umbrellas blocking some of the federal munitions. 632 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: The night of Lounsdale and Chapman were an unbroken sea 633 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 1: of thousands. People worked their way across the park with 634 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 1: buckets of rubbers, squeaky pigs. Speeches echoed over the p 635 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 1: a from the steps of the boarded up Justice Center 636 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 1: under the words fed goons out of PDX, projected in 637 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: letters five ft high. The wall of Moms was joined 638 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 1: by a self described wall of Dad's, wearing safety orange 639 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 1: and equipped with leafblowers to disperse tear gas. Here's Demetria again. 640 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,879 Speaker 1: The das came with the leaf blowers. I mean they 641 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 1: came with protection. They guarded us and disprotecting each other. 642 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 1: The shields, too had multiplied, made out of plywood, foam, 643 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,400 Speaker 1: and fifty gallon plastic drums. The boards over the courthouse 644 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,480 Speaker 1: doors and windows had been fitted with small hatches, in 645 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,080 Speaker 1: an echo of the PPB strategy from the days of 646 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 1: the Justice Center fence. This time, when the first tear 647 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: gas grenades came through the hatches, the crowds surged forward. 648 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,320 Speaker 1: This rush of activity was followed by a long, tense 649 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:12,480 Speaker 1: slow for two hours. The crowd sang and danced, yellow 650 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 1: clad moms forming a kick line where the fence had 651 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:35,760 Speaker 1: stood only a day earlier. The mood was celebratory and fierce. 652 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,760 Speaker 1: Using sections of chain link, fence, lumber, and other debris, 653 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 1: members of the crowd wedged shut some of the doors 654 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: and hatches covering the front of the Federal Courthouse. Some 655 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 1: people tore at the plywood covering the courthouse door with 656 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,319 Speaker 1: their bare hands. There was no coherent strategy to this, 657 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: but the sentiment was unmistakable. Portlanders were no longer on 658 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,840 Speaker 1: the defensive against the federal occupation. When federal agents finally 659 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,240 Speaker 1: emerged from the building, it was less a clean charge 660 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: and more a series of shoves. After a scuffle with protesters, 661 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,200 Speaker 1: one agent responded by drawing his side arm and pointing 662 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: it at eye level into the crowd. Protesters backed up, 663 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: but few people actually left. Instead, they fell back slowly. 664 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: Images of that night are surreal men in camouflage and 665 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,719 Speaker 1: plate carriers pointing rifles at the chest of teenagers and 666 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,680 Speaker 1: tank tops and respirators as smoke bombs from the crowd 667 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: mixed with clouds of tear gas and HC smoke. The 668 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,840 Speaker 1: Feds never formed a coherent line and many people remained 669 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,560 Speaker 1: in the park throughout the first push. I the bulk 670 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,760 Speaker 1: of the crowd waded back into the gas and smoke 671 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,960 Speaker 1: blanketing Loundsdale Park. A shield wall formed up in the 672 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: middle of Southwest Main Street and held Elaine remembers it 673 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,920 Speaker 1: this way and then the first time actually seeing that 674 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: on the ground um federal l eos coming into shoot 675 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 1: at people and the shield wall forming up and just 676 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 1: holding ground, And it was amazing to see how the 677 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,480 Speaker 1: federal forces didn't seem to know how to what to 678 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:39,120 Speaker 1: do with people just standing their ground and protecting themselves, 679 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,160 Speaker 1: and so they just were shooting and shooting and shooting, 680 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,640 Speaker 1: and there was this incredible moment where suddenly I heard 681 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,200 Speaker 1: this like it was the farting sounds of their peat 682 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,080 Speaker 1: ball guns that they were shooting pepper balls and rubber 683 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,520 Speaker 1: balls at the protesters. Was just running out of air 684 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:59,840 Speaker 1: because the shield wall was holding and people were keeping 685 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,800 Speaker 1: it together and protecting the people behind them. Despite the 686 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: fact that many of the federal agents on the line 687 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,319 Speaker 1: were armed within four rifles. Those holding the shield wall 688 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: along Southwest Main Street lobbed back gas canisters and glass 689 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,760 Speaker 1: bottles at the officers. Then the shield walls started moving 690 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: forward to the repeated lines fuck you, I won't do 691 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,880 Speaker 1: what you tell me from Rage against the Machines, Killing 692 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:27,280 Speaker 1: in the name. Shockingly, almost miraculously, the Feds started falling back. 693 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,600 Speaker 1: After about ten minutes, the shield line advanced to the 694 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: end of the block and the Feds withdrew to the 695 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,120 Speaker 1: steps of the court House. On July seventeenth, Chad Wolf 696 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,520 Speaker 1: had declared via tweet, we will never surrender to violent 697 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,239 Speaker 1: extremists on my watch now. At about one am, after 698 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 1: one of the most intense nights of federal violence thus far. 699 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,840 Speaker 1: Lonsdale Park was full of people and Chad Wolf's Federal 700 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 1: agents had scrambled back inside their fortress, low on ammunition 701 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 1: and clearly rattled. Several DHS agents tried to prop close 702 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: a door that had been shattered by enraged moms and 703 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,280 Speaker 1: teenagers with skateboards. Others attempted to fire out of murder holes, 704 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 1: only to be stymied in this by teenagers hucking dozens 705 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,120 Speaker 1: of bottles at their gun hands. The fedgs would push 706 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,240 Speaker 1: out again that night, but federal charges no longer provoked 707 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,239 Speaker 1: protesters into automatic retreat. Portland had gotten a taste of 708 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,360 Speaker 1: what it felt like to face down the violence of 709 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,480 Speaker 1: federal agents, and they even seemed to like it. For 710 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,000 Speaker 1: the next several weeks, the city would begin to treat 711 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:29,520 Speaker 1: fighting the Feds as a citywide pastime. In our next episode, 712 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,799 Speaker 1: we'll talk about how this dystopian side mission became the 713 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,279 Speaker 1: setting for a national media spectacle, how an armed coup 714 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 1: took over a rib restaurant, and so much more. Uh 715 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,600 Speaker 1: where the grand pops who couldn't fathom the obamacist I 716 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: don't hate America, just to me and she keeps the 717 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:52,280 Speaker 1: promises looking like the sixties. It's crazy, a nationwide deja 718 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,560 Speaker 1: what my people post to do go to schools named 719 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,520 Speaker 1: after the clan founder were around town? Is I don't 720 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,480 Speaker 1: see why we frown in etive American students forced to 721 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,839 Speaker 1: learn about wind o'parah Sarah. How is that fair? Bro? 722 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,279 Speaker 1: Some heroes unsung in some monsters get monuments built for them. 723 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,240 Speaker 1: But it ain't be all a little bit of monster. 724 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 1: We crook it