WEBVTT - The Fed War: Part 1 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:19.960 Damage around the courthouse. Up up until July, there was 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.720 relatively little on a national level that separated Portland's b 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.159 l M protests from the ones happening everywhere else. A 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.440 few shots of tear gas walls had gone viral in 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.400 the mainstream media, and live streams of Portland protests were 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.040 popular among a certain set, but as far as the 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.839 big networks were concerned, Portland was just another city convulsed 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.760 with riots in the summer of That all changed in July. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.720 It started with the siege of the Federal Courthouse on 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.520 July four. While that was going on in the streets 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.120 of the Rose City up north in Seattle, an activist 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.000 named Summer Taylor died that night after a car plowed 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.959 through a b l M march. On the eighth. Activists 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.120 in Portland staged a memorial vigil for Taylor. This was 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.960 disrupted by a small squad of federal agents who hit 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.240 the crowd with flash bangs and impact rounds as they 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.840 lit candles. Feelings were raw, but the crowd gathered near 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.319 the Justice Center that night numbered less than a hundred. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.240 You could be forgiven for thinking that the Battle of 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.320 July four had been the last gasp of a dying movement. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.160 Outside of the attack on the vigil, the rest of 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.319 the week followed the same pattern established in June, tiny 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.800 groups of ragged activists being horribly beaten by riot lines 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.360 of cops. It was exactly one week later, on July eleven, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.600 that everything changed. That night, a twenty six year old 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.600 protester named Donovan Labella was shot in the head at 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.000 close range by a U S marshal armed with an 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:43.800 impact weapon. His skull was shattered. Donovan nearly died. Video 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.360 of the unprovoked attack went viral nationwide. Our own Garrison Davis, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.800 was standing just a few feet behind Donovan when he 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.560 was shot. Here's how Garrison recalls that night. So I 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.480 got downtown around nine pm, kind of just a regular 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.640 time to arrive Usually that's like a bit before action starts. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.560 But when I got there, the streets around the courthouse 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.679 and Justice Center were already filled with tear gas. Um, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.360 there was already feds out in the streets. Um, it 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.960 was unclear what got them out. Um it turns out 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.040 it's just because people were on the were on like 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.200 the courtyard. So there's already already people in the streets 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.080 and stuff and Feds in the streets by the time 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.400 I arrived. And then the Feds got pushed back into 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.880 uh into like the courtyard by a small group of 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:35.200 activists UM on like fourth Avenue. And then they started 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.120 when when the Feds were on the courtyard, they just 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.280 started shooting like canisters from their grenade launcher. So, yeah, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.040 this is like I don't know, I've only been there 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.800 like ten minutes at this point. All this is happening 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.360 very very quickly. UM, and the Feds shoot off like 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.920 five canisters in a row that are all like duds, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.720 they don't actually do anything. UM. And one of them 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.760 lands underneath the car, and a young man holding a 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.080 boombox kind of like kicks it out from under the 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.920 car because it was like sparking, but it wasn't like 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.120 doing anything. It wasn't like exploding or shooting off any gas. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.720 And then after he after he get kicked it out 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.680 of the out of under the car, he picked up 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.440 just to boombox and was standing in the standing on 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.240 the sidewalk across the street from the courthouse. I was 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:23.080 like five feet was right, and then he just got 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:27.600 shot in the head. Um. After Yeah, it was just 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.679 just standing there with the boom box and he collapsed 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.680 claps on the ground. I remember hearing. I mean I 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.240 heard that the shot, and I heard the fall. I 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.440 didn't see him fall, and but by the time I 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.760 looked over, um, she was on the ground, bleating out 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.200 of his head. And you know, very quickly people came 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.200 over and grabbed him. The thing, the thing that sticks 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.600 out most is when when they when they grabbed him 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.440 and pulled him away, just how limp his body was like, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.280 it was a very lifeless body. His head was like 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.480 bobbing everywhere, which probably wasn't you know, it wasn't great. Um. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.400 You should you know, when you're picking someone up like that, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.800 you should try to make sure that doesn't happen. Um. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.440 But yeah, it was, it was, it was. He was 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:13.040 just so lifeless. Um in that in that moment um 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.359 they took him into the into the park, semitics started, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.760 you know, people, people yelled, medic medic. Medics came over 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.320 started to you know, try to stop the bleeding, and 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.080 an ambiliance came about like ten fifteen minutes later. But 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.520 like it, it felt it felt a lot longer. You know, 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.080 it felt like they were taking forever to arrive. Um, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.479 but there's a lot, a lot of blood on the sidewalk, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.479 a lot of a lot of blood in the park. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.839 The grass was like soaked. Donovan very nearly died from 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.320 his injuries. As we write this episode in December, he's 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.400 just recently been released from the hospital following another round 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.400 of treatment for the infections caused by his injuries. He 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.560 has suffered permanent cognitive damage. The brutality with which Donovan 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.080 was assaulted enraged Portlanders, even those would not previous e 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.080 been active in the streets. Rage was further stoked by 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.760 poor coverage by local mainstream sources like The Oregonian, who 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.359 responded to this brutal attack on a young man wielding 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.560 a boom box by grenade launcher wielding FEDS with an 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.679 article full of expert analysis on why it had happened. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.720 Those experts included a retired commander with the Los Angeles 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.720 Sheriff's Department who insisted the shot, which was taken from 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.279 about thirty feet away, had to have been an accident. Quote. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.760 Nobody anywhere in the world that I am aware of, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.320 is taught to aim for the head unless deadly forces 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.960 also authorized in this particular case, there was no rational 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.040 way to say that deadly force was authorized. Overall, the 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.360 article was crafted to leave the reader with the opinion 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.760 that Labella's injuries must have been a tragic accident in 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.960 the heat of the moment, rather than an angry and 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.440 undisciplined federal agent choosing to permanently injure a twenty six 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.080 year old armed with speakers. The good news is that 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.919 no one bought it. Portlanders were outraged by what happened 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.119 to Donovan. More protesters began to trickle into the nightly 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.440 demonstrations out side the Justice Center, which switched their attention 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.800 to the adjacent Federal courthouse. Conor O'sha had gotten his 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.120 start attending Rose City justice marches. He switched over to 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.080 attending the nightly confrontations against the police after he got 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.599 bored of marches that seemed to go nowhere. They'd be like, wait, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.719 what's going down by the Justice Center and what's happening 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.240 over there? I want to go over there? Why is 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.760 everybody going back home? Like the sun is still out? 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.760 Like this is I want to go see what's happening 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:33.039 over there, And then started doing that and then was like, yeah, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.320 this feels right this feels like you know, like not 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.000 not to say like that, um, you know, having h 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.919 march during the day with like speeches like like you know, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:50.800 all the protesting is valid, but I was definitely attracted 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:56.120 to like showing up at the sources like the biggest, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.919 the gnarliest symbols of what what people are protesting against. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.800 Connor watched as the protest dwindled, and he saw how 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.760 the introduction of heavily armed federal agents and the outrage 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.200 over Donovan's injury started drawing more people out into the streets. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.680 Before the Feds showed up, Um, it really felt like 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.080 we were losing a lot of not necessarily momentum. But 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.280 just like people showing up, numbers were kind of coming 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.920 down a little bit is to be expected. But yeah, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:34.440 when they did make an appearance, like aggressive appearances, it 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.480 totally it was it totally served as a catalyst for 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.720 further like like when when they shouldn't know by now, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:50.840 like when they show up, uh you know, cops and feds. Um, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.560 when they when they show their face, it's like almost 0:07:55.280 --> 0:08:02.240 always worst um like in terms of like a crowd response, um, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.200 which I kind of love. UM. So so when they 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.600 showed up. It was like like almost immediately everyone was 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.000 like turning turning back up UM in huge numbers. So 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.720 that was it was just so funny to me that 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.520 they that they kind of kept doing what they were 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:25.440 doing UM when the crowd response was just getting amplified 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.600 by their presence. Many in the movement were rejuvenated by 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.360 the fact that protest numbers were growing again. After so 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.640 many nights of watching Tinier and Tinier groups get brutalized 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.000 by the Portland police, it was stirring to feel like 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.480 people cared again. Mark Pettibone's first night out had been 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.520 June one, and like Connor, he'd been dismayed as numbers 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.360 fell off throughout that month. He kept coming out though, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.880 and he was out protesting near the Federal Courthouse with 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.720 Connor when the night of July fourteenth turned into the 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:57.960 early morning of July. It was actually a relatively uneventful 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.480 night in terms of sho between protesters and the cops. UM. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:09.840 The uh PPB showed up i think once to kind 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.280 of remove some barricades that people have set up in 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:17.640 the street in front of the UM the courthouse, and 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:23.560 the Feds made a really kind of quick uh they 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.400 came out of the building to um, if you're facing 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.280 the Justice Center, that came out the building to the 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:34.160 right briefly and then retreated back in. And so honestly, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.280 that night I spent what I remember from uh early 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.440 in the night was I was playing frisbee with people 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.880 in the park. We were just hanging out. Um. There 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:49.400 wasn't much too kind of be angry at um, at 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.160 least visibly, the Feds weren't out and about. Uh So 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.480 Mark and I were like, all right, this has been good. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.800 It's been fine, I guess, um, not much going on. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.880 Let's get out of here. We've got to work tomorrow. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.880 We just we had just gotten out of work a 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.720 couple hours before, so, like midnight or one clock rolls 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:15.400 around and we're leaving, and as we're walking back to 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.960 his car, we kind of get stopped by some protesters 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.120 on the corner of the street there just a couple 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:27.439 of blocks away, and uh they warned us that they 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:32.800 had seen or that people had seen unmarked vans kidnapping people. Um. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.080 And so we're we're looking around, and sure enough, right 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.480 then a van pulls up right in front of us, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.319 seemingly out of nowhere. Um, and a bunch of guys 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.679 in military fatigues jump out. I look in it. I'm like, oh, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.320 they're probably FEDS. I don't know. It's a it's a 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:56.360 fucking minivan full of guys and fatigues. Cameo fatigues. Uh. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.400 They opened the doors. Everybody but the driver it's out. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:05.240 They start they start just walking straight towards us. Uh, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.360 and we're like, what what the what? What? What the fuck? 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.080 And there's you know, there's traffic behind us. UM. I 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:17.160 remember Mark and I like almost getting hit by a 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.199 car that had to stop because we're like, oh, I 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.000 think we need to run. So we all take off 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:29.360 in different directions. You know, there's no no identification, um 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.400 visually and also audibly. You know, they didn't say stop, 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.240 we are you know so and so it was just 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.320 immediate and uh so we we kind of you know, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.679 we ran for our lives. And they ended up the 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.319 people and the fatigues who ended up being the FEDS. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.520 They chased me down, one one chased me down on foot. UM. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:57.520 So I ran, I'll see west and made it a 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.439 few blocks, took a turn and heard the van kind 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.000 of accelerating up the hill cut me off. And so 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.880 I dropped to my knees and I asked why, UM 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.920 several times. That was all I could form. Honestly, I 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.040 wasn't like why, why is this happening? And am I 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.560 being detained? It was just why? And uh So they 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.720 lifted me up, UM, off my knees, put me in 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:26.120 the van, UM, pulled my beanie over my head, patted 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.840 me down. UM asked if I had weapons, and you know, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.400 I said no. Uh. And at this point, I I 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.480 it was kind of this weird you know, people always 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:42.520 talking about these out of body experiences and I, you know, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.800 I had no experience with any of that until this happened. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.600 Mark booked it. Um west, I went south. I was 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.880 kind of running next to somebody for a minute, uh, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.240 like you know, maybe fifteen ten seconds, and then I 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.480 cut up another kind of a block web. After I 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.960 got one block south. I think the FED that was 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.520 the FED or FEDS that were after me and this person, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.760 Like I think they either went after that person or 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.040 like they forgot about me or something. Maybe it was 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.120 just because I was able to run faster. I huck 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.040 my sign that I've been carrying, got it back the 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.840 next morning. That was cool. UM hucked my sign that 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:30.960 I was carrying, and UM running up another block. UH, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.000 fucking like scared for my life, I was able to 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.000 be like, I just don't talk to these people. UM. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.840 At this point I was pretty sure that it was 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.960 the FEDS, UM, and it wasn't some kind of rogue, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.760 you know, militia group. And I figured the best thing 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:47.880 for me to do at that point it was just 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.439 to shut up and um and get through and asked 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.640 for a lawyer when the time comes. UM. At that point, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.160 I hit a dark street and I see what is 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.120 either that same van or a different van cut across 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.840 in front of me going north. I think that was 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.600 they were trying to find Mark. And at that point 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.199 I looked looked over and saw I forget what the 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:17.320 name of the it was another courthouse, of course, because 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.880 there's like a d down there. UM. I I look 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.920 at this like concrete um railing whatever you wanna call that, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.360 um out front of this courthouse. And I'm like there 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:34.040 and okay, yeah there, I'm going to jump this. I 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.400 sprint across once the van gets out of sight, because 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.160 they started to loop back around the block. Yeah, sprint 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:46.120 jump over it, jump over the little barricade and UM. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.480 At this point I didn't I was sure they were 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.680 going to get me. UM. The only thing I could 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.520 think to do was to shut my phone off, which 0:14:55.160 --> 0:15:01.120 I now no can still be traced, which is also horrific. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.440 But I have a Faraday bag for that now, so 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.000 that's great. UM. But I shut my phone off. I 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:13.720 hear more like another banner to assume, UM driving by 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.040 like very kind of erratically, like gunning it and then 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:21.680 slowing down. I heard like that. I think that was them. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.920 I'm not positive. I heard someone in in like boots 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.200 with some jingling going on walk past. UM. I just 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:35.400 like tucked up against this barricade, UM and was just 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.160 like as quiet as I could be for I don't 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.880 know how long, half hour, an hour, until I was 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.720 able to get in touch with a friend. They booked 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:51.760 it across the river. They showed up. I they opened 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.080 the back door of this car, jumped in, stayed laying 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.200 on my back like I don't I don't think we 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.680 covered me up with anything, but it was like, yeah, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.560 it was terrifying enough to be like, I don't know 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.560 why why they targeted at us, So yeah, I got 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.160 out of there and then get a call from Mark 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.880 relatively quickly after I got to the other side of 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.120 the river. I was like, like, because we we friends 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.040 were texting, I think like Emily and and another friend 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.880 of ours. Like we were like, they were like, we can't, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.400 we can't get in touch with Mark. We think they 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.920 got him. They did have Mark, but thankfully he'd broken 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.680 absolutely no law. The agents who had snatched him had 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.840 probably hoped that he'd be rattled enough by the whole 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.280 experience to answer whatever questions they asked. When he refused 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.640 to talk without a lawyer present, they had no choice 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.440 but to let him go. The whole thing took about 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.280 two hours, maybe even less. And uh so I was 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.280 released with one other person, and I believe it was 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.800 one of the protesters that I had been standing next 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.400 to um in the street when the vans first pulled up. Um. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.760 I think they ended up picking them up as well. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.040 So they released the two of us at the same time. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.600 And you know this is after they read me my 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.639 rights once I was shackled and in a cell um 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.080 and asked if I wanted to waive them UM, and 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.879 I said no, I want to talk to the lawyer. UM. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.400 So after that they came by again and said, okay, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.160 you're free to go. That same night, a local activist 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.919 filmed federal agents and camouflage and military gear snatching another 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.400 black clad protester and dragging him into an unmarked rental van. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.040 The video was horrifying, the kind of blatantly dystopian police 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.959 state ship that couldn't not provoke a national response, and 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.320 it did. Within a day, the video had been viewed 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.439 millions and millions of times. The story broke nationwide in 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.080 the seventeen when The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and basically every 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.720 major news source reported on Portland's federal snatch fans. Now 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.920 we have some video that was posted to Twitter from 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.800 last night. The Post says that federal officers rushed up 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.600 and arrested someone for no reason. Unmarked police vehicles they're 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.280 not even they're not police vehicles, they're just vehicles. They're 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:06.639 rentable vans. They're like consumer rentable vans filled with guys 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:13.679 in paramilitary gear who are supposedly federal policemen. Unmarked vans 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.720 of unleashed tear gas into crowds, rounded up and detained protesters, 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.000 and even shot one man in the head with a 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:24.160 non lethal round, causing serious injury. Their presence and their 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.399 tactics have raised questions about the use of federal agencies 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.640 to police cities, even when local authorities don't want them there. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:46.040 We Ddovan LaBelle Is shooting had enraged people, but it 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.320 was the federal snatch fans that would finally radicalize thousands 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.320 of Portland's liberal majority to take to the streets. It 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.879 was on the night of the first group of what 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.600 would become the Wall of Moms showed up to protest 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.119 the Feds. We'll talk about them in a second, but 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.920 first here's Garrison to explain another important action that occurred 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.200 the same night. The militarized FEDS had captured Portland's imagination. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.560 But as the Quote fed war started to ramp up, 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.520 protesters who had been fighting the police for weeks didn't 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.840 want people to forget the reason all of this had 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.240 happened in the first place. They organized a rally simply 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:25.120 titled Quote Abolished the Police for June eighteenth at Peninsula 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.000 Park in North Portland. The event was boosted by groups 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.760 such as the YLF and Direct Action Alliance, people who 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.840 were generally trusted within the community of veteran activists. The 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.600 last time a protest had been held at Peninsula Park 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.399 was June. The crowd had marched to the Portland Police 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.320 Association building, which had been surrounded by dozens of armed cops. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.440 Police quickly pushed the crowd away using Truncheon's, grenade launchers 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.600 and tear gas. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that the 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.480 crowd of several hundred who showed up on the eighteenth 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.920 came expecting a fight. Banners at the front of the 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.919 march included quote, Chad Wolfe listens to Nickelback, mocking the 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.359 acting DHS director, who had just visited Portland a few 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.080 days prior and also spoke with the p p A. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.040 Other banners read de colonize and mourned the dead fight 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.840 like hell for the living. One banner read Quantas Hayes 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:29.440 was only seventeen years old. In February seen Portland police 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:34.080 shot and killed Quantas Hayes, an unarmed, teenage black Portlander. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.320 When they shot Kawanas, he was on his knees ten 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.200 to fifteen feet away from officers, aiming guns and shouting 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:46.280 contradictorary commands. Officer Andrew Hurst, who was providing quote long 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.840 cover with his air fifteen fired three shots at the 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.440 teen when Kuanas reportedly moved his hands from above his head. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.639 At the same time Kuanas was shot from moving his hands, 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.399 other officers were ordering him to get face down on 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.600 the ground with his hands by his sides. The Portland 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.879 Police use of force investigation found no wrongdoing on the 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.439 part of Officer Andrew Hurst. He still walks around with 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.600 a badge and a gun today. The lead use of 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.879 force investigator on that case was Detective Eric camemer but 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.800 Portland protesters might know him better as the notorious Officer 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.199 sixties seven. Speaking as a journalist who has watched the 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.720 Portland Police riot team and action, officer Camemra is quite 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.680 possibly the most violent man I have ever met. All 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.000 of this was on the mind of the press in attendance. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.000 When the crowd departed Peninsula Park at around eight pm, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.919 we suspected they would head straight for the Police Union building, 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.639 but that's not what happened. The people at the front 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.399 of the march headed in that direction at first, but 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:50.160 as the crowd got close to the union building, they 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:54.440 made a sudden turn, confusing the police and probably some protesters. 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.880 The march went on southward for about half an hour, 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:07.000 chanting along the way. Soon enough, the crowd arrived at 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:12.080 the surprise destination, the Portland Police North Precinct. Only a 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:14.880 handful of officers were present when the group of marchers 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:19.520 approached the building, and said officers quickly moved inside. As 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:26.800 they did, hundreds of people chanted quit Your Job protesters 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.800 hung out in the precinct parking lot for almost an hour. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.280 Officers had been so surprised by their arrival that a 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.639 police car was left sitting unattended in the middle of 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:38.960 the crowd. It was tagged with graffiti and a bananappeal 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.639 was placed on its hood, but nothing else. As was inevitable, 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.720 The police el red eventually arrived and ordered the crowd 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:49.359 to leave under threat of arrest and tear gas. On 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.440 previous evenings, the crowd would have just stood around, defiant 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.560 and waiting to get all beaten up and gassed, But 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:59.480 tonight was different. As the el rad blared threats, people 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:03.720 in the crowd yelled b water, echoing a Hong Kong slogan, 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:09.480 and the crowd began to move once again back to 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.119 North mL. Cable of art fether to follow this direction, 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:15.960 based up a que to arrest. The citation are used 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:20.040 of more, including crowd control munitions. The tactical decision to 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.680 move after the el Rad's warning apparently bamboozled the police, 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:27.080 as the nearly five hundred protesters were able to swiftly 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:30.560 march north to the completely unguarded p p A building. 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.199 Dumpsters were overturned to block the street, and protesters in 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.600 black block assembled a makeshift battering ram out of random 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.920 materials nearby. No one said anything, but the crowd knew 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.720 what was about to happen. People were going to enter 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:48.280 the Police Union building. Dumpster fires were started to block 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:51.160 the police from seeing what was happening. In due time, 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:54.280 the el Red arrived and an audibly nervous El Red 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.560 operator ordered people not to enter the p p A 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:02.040 police He visit the redial area. We noticed criminal activity 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:06.520 occurring in this crowd at the office. You'll be study 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:09.880 to arrest or support them, to include crowd control munitions. 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.440 But for the Portland police it was too little, too late. 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.080 People had already broken through the front door of the 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:20.640 Police Union building and lit a small fire inside. As 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.679 soon as the riot police arrived, the crowd began dispersing. 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.520 People had no desire to fight the cops. This night, 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:29.720