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If you tamper with the fence or fill the obey officer instructions, you will be subject to uses of force to include impacting decisions and right control agents. Stay back. By the time protests kicked off in Portland, protesters in Minneapolis had burned down the Third Precinct and several other buildings. But as it turns out, Portland was actually the first city in the country to declare a riot over the protests after George Floyd's death. This has more to do with the way that Portland police declare riots than any objective standard of unrest. And now, many months later, Portland police still declare riots on a fairly regular basis. It seems that Portland is set on having the first and last riot of the 2020 protests. So what happened that turned relatively normal BLM actions in Portland, which were happening in every major American city, into a movement that still draws out crowds today? I'm Robert Evans, and this is uprising, a guide from Portland. My partners in this series are a team of local Portland journalists, Garrison Davis, Donovan Smith, B Lake, and Elaine Kinchen. We wrote this series together. And they'll be handling most of the narration for this episode. You'll be hearing more from me, too, as we've embedded audio from several of the live streams I recorded during cop riots. Right now, I'm going to hand the mic off to Donovan Smith. He's reported on politics and social justice for a wide variety of local publications, and he helped produce a documentary on gentrification. Here's Donovan. After the first night of quote UN quote rioting in Portland, a state of emergency was declared and a curfew was imposed from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM. With the express interest of cracking down on mass gatherings of protesters. When asked if the curfew will be enforced if someone was, for example, to go grocery shopping, the mayor's office replied, quote. The city is not interested in citing people who are going about their business causing no harm and uninvolved in criminal conduct and quote. But it didn't require property destruction or criminal conduct for the police to start attacking and arresting protesters on Saturday, May 30th, even before the curfew. That Saturday, thousands gathered outside the Justice Center, which had become tradition in Portland. People marched around downtown and occupied the street in front of the JCC, the casual name given to the Justice Center. Police came out a few times throughout the day to try and get people off the street, with mixed results. This culminated with the police in riot gear tear gassing the streets and city parks around the JC while bashing people in the head with truncheons, all in broad daylight hours before the curfew was set to begin. Extreme violence to do it. Look at this. Tear gas in the center of the square. Look at this top hitting here with this stick. Look at the violence. Look at this mask. Throughout downtown, police and white vans targeted the largest crowd of protesters they could find, launching tear gas and stun grenades into the crowd of people. Regular city traffic was engulfed in clouds of gas on streets, which had not even been closed houses. Portlanders sleeping in tents were woken by flashbangs, gas and impact rounds as the clock struck 8:00 PM after telling and gassing protesters for the better part of two hours, cops killed protesters onto a bridge, surrounding and arresting the entire crowd for being out. Ask her if you a total of 48 arrests were made that night. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, upon his return from visiting his sick mother, extended the curfew for yet another day. On Sunday, May 31st, the largest crowd, yet 10,000 strong, marched across the Burnside Bridge into downtown. As the marchers approached the end of the bridge, cops were waiting on the other end, blocking their path. Once the sheer size of the crowd became apparent, the police turned tail and ran high, telling it back to the Justice Center. The crowd followed them there, and a tense. Hours long standoff followed. Eventually the crowd thinned out enough that police were able to tear gas and flash bang grenade protesters into dispersing. That night was one of the most terrifying evenings of the entire uprising, with officers hanging off a riot vans and grenading passersby. Seemingly at random, Mayor Wheeler extended the curfew for yet another day. At a press conference announcing his extension, Wheeler doubled down on his law and order stance, this time with the help of Governor Kate Brown. I want to be very clear that there are open lines of communications between myself and the governor personally, as well as between our offices. There is coordination with the Superintendent of State police as well as the leadership of the National Guard. I spoke to the governor three or four times yesterday. I did make the request on all three of those occasions for support from the National Guard. The governor had alternative strategies that she suggested, including deploying more state police resources. We subsequently asked for additional tools that could be used in the field that was agreed to by the governor and supported. Based on last night, however, I agree with what the US attorney has said. And I agree with what my colleagues in the Portland Police Bureau have just confirmed with me, which is we do need more resources come Monday, June 1st, there was a shift in Portland protests. Instead of meeting at the Justice Center, another crowd of thousands gather on the east side of Portland, across from the river downtown at the aptly named concert venue Revolution Hall. After some speeches, the crowd began to March W toward downtown. The crowd near the fence with a line of riot cops behind the chain link, a young black woman at the head of the March asked. An officer of the crowd marched to the JCC. The police said no. Eventually the huge March headed back to Revolution Hall and no tear gas was used. Now you have to understand, at this point a lot of the crowd had just spent the last three days getting horribly tear gassed, beat up and chased by the police. The thought of doing a protest in March without being assaulted by the cops felt like a nice change compared to the last three nights. But that all changed the next day. The day that will become infamously known as tear gas Tuesday, tear gas Tuesday sucked. I had a full asthma attack. I had never been subjected to tear gas before, and so I saw a cloud of tear gas and I saw a man fall down in the cloud of tear gas and he was struggling to get up. And so I ran in and I kind of picked him up by his shirt and then grabbed him by his arm and pulled him out of there. And then I immediately had an asthma attack. And my buddy picked me up. Yeah, they're both out of there. That's Chris, a volunteer protest medic and tear gas. Tuesday was actually his second night out. The brutality he went, this is what got him to decide to dedicate his whole summer to helping people in the streets. I saw a girl get hit in the face with shrapnel, and that was not OK and then everybody's getting tear gassed and it was a mess, and that was the infamous teargas Tuesday. And after that, I just kind of decided that I needed to start coming out with medical supplies because. How that was handled, what people were doing to provide medicine in that moment wasn't up to a standard that I knew that I could provide. But let's take a step back. Tear gas Tuesday was a noteworthy shift for Portland protest for a multitude of reasons. It was the first day since riot night with no curfew, with city officials even publicly admitting to the curfew being ineffective now. And it was the first day that the protests noticeably began to splinter. Just like Monday, the day before, 1000 sparks from Revolution Hall toward the fence, which at this point surrounded several city blocks, including the Justice Center, the federal Courthouse, and Chapman and Lownsdale, the two city parts which face those buildings. Only this time, just half the crowd turn back to Rev Hall, but the other half set on chanting at the police behind the chain link fence. The Portland police issue repeated warnings over loud speakers. That protesters were not to touch the fence under threat of right munitions. As might be predicted, the sanctity of PPB sacred events became an immediate source of ridicule, even as police followed through on their threats. And as members of the crowd dared to touch the fence, the PPV once again deployed an outrageous amount of tear gas. And it wasn't even the amount of tear gas that was fired off that night, but how they fired it several times. Police rushed in multiple directions, all while firing off more tear gas, creating a massive cage of poison. Police are boxing crowded on several sides and deploying munitions into the crowd. Flashbangs and gas. See the antifascist flag here. Two other things stick out from tear gas Tuesday, the 1st of which was just how many motorists driving through downtown were tear gassed by Portland police. They're shooting them down on us from everywhere, from the ******* rooftops. Pumping gas into traffic. Pumping gas into the crowds, shooting gas. Look, there's ******* tear gas. There's ******* tear gas in the middle of traffic that was just fired from someone up on a rooftop into the middle of traffic multiple times. People who are blinded by gas while driving panic and lost control of their vehicles nearly hit people as they drove into crowds. Protesters with water bottles and medical supplies render. Need to drivers who had crashed into the curb. So here we have look how many cars there are here. All of these people are about to get tear gassed by the Portland Police Bureau Ohboy. They're just started arching them down at us from God knows where. Maybe on the ******* roof. They're just coming down from the sky. People trying to traffic code them, trying to kick them away, trying to stop them from gassing traffic. The other thing that sticks out is the crowds. Resilience was growing. Protesters started adopting tactics scene in the Hong Kong uprising. Like. Placing traffic cones over tear gas canisters and pouring water through the top of the cone to get the burning canister out, you see people actually very effectively deploying Hong Kong tactics here to stop these tear gas grenades from dropping Box Pro Tuskers and from gassing vehicles. A chant that became popular in the weeks to come was walk don't run, reminding people in time to panic. Often the safest way out, it's just by walking calmly. More experienced organizers are walking calmly through the crowd, putting hands on people and saying do not run. Do not run. Because the thing that hurts people in situations like this is panic. It's Mint Mobile offers premium wireless starting at just 15 bucks a month. And now for the plot twist. Nope, there isn't one. Mint Mobile just has premium wireless from 15 bucks a month. There's no trapping you into a two year contract. You're opening the bill to find all these nuts fees. There's no luring you in with free subscriptions or streaming services that you'll forget to cancel. And then. Charged full price for none of that. For anyone who hates their phone Bill, Mint Mobile offers premium wireless for just $15.00 a month. Mint Mobile will give you the best rate whether you're buying one or for a family. And it meant family start at 2 lines. All plans come with unlimited talk and text, plus high speed data delivered on the nation's largest 5G network. 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Listen to revisionist history on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. I've never seen less enthusiasm for a great idea in my life. Scary, but it probably won't seriously harm you if you don't panic. And the police aren't going to take any steps to try to avoid a Stampede. So the only way to avoid a Stampede is again, for the crowd to take care of itself. We have seen people get so much better at reforming the crowd after being gassed. That started to really improve on Sunday night. And look, most of the people are still here, still organized, still marching. So many thousands of people. This is the first time we've seen the best job of the crowd staying together and really showing commitment and endurance. In the face of police brutality. So this has been a very important and a very impressive night from the activists and the citizens of Portland, OR. Chris, who acquired a gas mask the very next day, sums up his feelings about tear gas Tuesday like this. 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Like there was a moment, I wanna say it was the Burnside Bridge when everyone was like laying down for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and I got some good pictures of that and it was just really great to capture. Think that the moment when Damian Lillard came out, you know, everyone like, you know, had like the celeb moment in this and I got it. And at the moment we actually, when he came out, I didn't even know he was out there. And so I checked my photos later and I was like, oh snap got him. Activists and live streamer Max Smith attended both the larger daytime protests on the east side and the night protests at the JC. Here he explains how he became a popular speaker at the Portland protest and the interesting effect of having both the daytime March and the nighttime action on the public. I want to say it was the 2nd or the 3rd that I actually got out in the streets doing the work with the security stuff and helping out with the the larger marches on the east side. That I revolution hall things and all that. So I was kind of doing, playing a couple of roles over there with helping with the Guardian folks and doing some, you know, a political education at the same time. And it's it kind of just came natural. I just start talking to people and people start listening to what I'm saying and on the night of the 5th. I got arrested downtown at the JCC. Or near the around the area of the JC. At least I got arrested down there and so that weekend I ended up giving a speech at Irving Park. And that's kind of where things start. It ended up being like streamed on the news locally. So that's where things kind of started changing for me at that point. And can you talk to me about the night you were arrested? It's like, yeah, kind of as much detail as you're as you're interested in going in. Yeah, that's fine. My, you know, it was just a basic arrest. I was actually out there with a couple of people. We had been going down a couple nights to see what was going on at the Justice Center because, you know, I have been, you know, if you're just watching the news, all you see is, you know, it looks like one big March, right, like it's one huge March starts in the daytime. All of a sudden it descends into madness at night, but quickly. Advise that there's, there's multiple things that are going on. If you leave your house, you know you have the TV, so a lot that's going on in the streets. So I started, you know, going out to see different things. And we were down at the JCC and things got really gassy. It was one of the nights. So again, it was the first, like, you know, a few days of gassing. Welcome. Everyone knows. We. And. I had been down there before, and this time I brought a couple different people that were like, you know, I'm trying to see it, but I'm scared. And I was like, just come with me, I'll show you what's going on. You know, it's not that big of a deal, but we ended up catching up with some other people down there and kind of had like a little group and we were. And there were a lot of like teenagers down there. So we were actually making sure a lot of people got out because they were cops everywhere, like circling and pulling people over or stopping people and arresting them. And so we were like kind of mint mobile offers, premium wireless starting at just 15 bucks a month. And now for the plot twist. Nope, there isn't one. Mint Mobile just has premium wireless from 15 bucks a month. There's no trapping you into a two year contract. You're opening the bill to find all these nuts fees. There's no luring you in with free subscriptions or streaming services that you'll forget to cancel and then be charged full price for. None of that. For anyone who hates their phone Bill, Mint Mobile offers premium wireless for just $15.00 a month. 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And the shocking discovery I made where I faced the consequences of writing a book I thought would help people? Isn't that funny? It's not funny at all. It's depressing. Very depressing. Religious history is back with more. Listen to revisionist history on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. I've never seen less enthusiasm for a great idea in my life. I think folks navigate their way out and then as it got late, there were a bunch of people that were suffering from tear gas. And so myself and a medic and I have like a first aid training, a basic stuff. And so the those first nights I was out there with like, you know, milk or the baking soda and water solutions and whatever else, just helping folks out. And so we were following the groans of people, you know, coughing and and being friends with tear gas and the cops just rolled up with like 4 cars. And eight officers hopped out. And I got snatched up. And it's got snatched up by that. I got grabbed by the hair, got yanked to the ground. I bruised my elbow, you know, had a Crick in my neck for a few days. But they arrested me. They drove me around in a squad car for like 1520 minutes. They picked up some other guy. You know, they accused him of drawing on a. Drawing on a window with a Sharpie or something. And he's like, what? And they were like, you know, they were trying to charge him with a felony. All of our charges got dropped. No one got charged with anything. I I got charged with obstructing the police. He got charged with something else. As Mack was inside the police car, he was also able to get a sneak peek of how the police were targeting people for arrest behind the scenes. I thought it was crazy because they had this like thing in their car like this, like a heads up display, like a HUD. And it it it it had like it had an aerial view. Of this, of the downtown grid. And it had like it was able to track people. I thought that was, it was like a Call of Duty display. Like when you're like using like, you know, the helicopter or whatever, it was like that. And like you could see like the people and they were like represented like as lights, kind of there was like a light on there. It was like a, it was like a, a black and white display and you could see the things that are moving. But then like with people, it basically lit them up with like lights and circles. They would a circle us if we were in groups and when the groups got small enough and they would like a turn green and the cops would. To go and arrest people, the group of protesters gathered at the fence were quick to make a distinction between, quote, peaceful protests and nonviolent protests. While the massive Rose City justice marches remained peaceful, the crowds at the JC would engage in nonviolent actions such as shaking, tearing down, and cutting apart the chain link fence. Most of what people did at the JC was just standing in the street and parks while Channing demands and slogans, but it didn't require people to tamper with the fence or throw half drunk water bottles for the police to respond with force, as this protester can attest. I was downtown and it was back at the original fence and I, you know, there was probably, I probably estimate like 500 people there and everyone was really spread out. And there was no police on the ground. It was raining that night and they had their floodlights like pointed at us. And one shot got fired from one of the, like the little balcony areas, the one that's farther to the right, and it hit me in the leg. It was just one shot and it hit me at the like the very top of my left thigh. And I was just standing there with a group of friends like I had. There was a beach ball in the crowd that night and it said don't gas me, bro. 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Gregory Mckelvey, vice chair of Oregon Dems Black Caucus and former organizer, pushed back on some of that criticism. Gregory was also organizing on a new front. Now, as protest gained steam, he was in the home stretch of leading a grassroots. While campaign for political newcomer Sarah Iannarone to take down incumbent Mayor Ted Wheeler, many Portlanders felt Wheeler had failed on his promise to deliver fundamental change on issues of housing and police reform. Instead, Wheeler became a symbol of big money in politics. More of the same Gregory's candidate Iannarone ran to the left of Wheeler, dubbing herself and quote everyday anti fascist. So you know. We had a situation where 10s of thousands of people were marching every day. And if you're at those events, they're just beautiful. And yeah, they're way more liberal, they're way more moderate. But those people are being marched along, unintended, towards a more radical place. And, you know, Malcolm X said more eloquently than me that basically, you know, everything. You know, there was a point where you didn't. And so these people are on their journey just as everybody else and just because they're not anarchists yet. Does not make them agents of the state and I really think that those protests are what effectively got us the Umm, the 20 million defunded from the police. I mean we had a moment where there were mass protests and Damian Lillard was at the front of a protest that was in capturing the entire city. Now if you're wondering, yes, he is talking about that Damian Lillard, five time NBA All Star and Portland Trail Blazers superstar point guard Damian Lillard. Yeah. He was out there, too. Yeah. They were burning stuff down. And also some of their rhetoric was not, you know, as far left as maybe I would like or and certainly that some people at the Justice Center would like. But I actually do think those protests were more effective and they certainly had far more support from the broad public. And we were getting people at these protests who had never protested before, like, I don't think the Justice Center protest should have stopped. And I don't think that they're ineffective per se, but I think there's certainly much more effective if in tandem there's also the other protest. 29 So if I'm at home watching like channel 268 or 12, which I had to watch a lot for my job, they're not making a difference between which protesters or which protesters. They're just saying protesters marched and Damian Lillard joined them. Later in the night, protesters were gassed and being right that that. Way of explaining things is really helpful for all the protesters because they see that protest with Damian Lillard and they're like, oh, I support this. And then they see what they think is the same people getting gassed at night. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no. And that helps us move the conversation towards defunding once those massive protests go away. And we only have protests that Damian Lillard is never going to be seen at now. Now they have no support from the broad public. Early June is also when most of Portland's 2020 police reforms. Were achieved under large pressure both locally and from the nationwide BLM movement. The Portland Public Schools Superintendent decided to end the school Resource Officer program, opting instead for an increased spending on social workers, counselors, and culturally specific mentors for students. Also, a historically racist Portland police unit was also disbanded. Here's more on that from Gregory. We got rid of some of the specialty units, including the Gang Enforcement Unit or formerly known as the Gang Enforcement Unit, which. Kept a list of mostly black individuals that they thought were gang members and it really was a circle of our injustice carceral system and was really abhorrent and racist. And they switched their name to the gun violence reduction team in a branding effort but still had the same mandate. We got rid of that specialty unit. We defunded 20 something $1,000,000 from the police, which sounds like a lot, but we were defunding from a lot of different bureaus. Because of the pandemic and the budget shortfall in general, alongside those small reforms in early June Portland also saw some negative change on the road to police accountability. The officers responding to protests were told they were allowed to cover both their name tag and badge number amid fears officers would be, quote, doxxed. Lawyer Alan Kessler explains this in greater detail. So. There's a directive that says that the police shall display their name on their uniform unless they get special dispensation from their their commander to not do it. And the police are supposed to give you a business card if you ask. We're supposed to identify themselves, supposed to give a business card which has their name and badge number on it right there. It's not supposed to be a secret police force, and the directives are there. There are several directives that are kind of about that interaction with the public. It turns out that very early in the in the protests, there was a an e-mail that was sent out that told police that it's OK for them to cover their badge and then replace it with their it's called their personnel number or perner, spelled either PRNR or PERNR. And it's a it's a weird choice. Like the only the only thing that was used for before that was payroll. It's in their accounting system. Oh, and also. Historically, it's been used in the on some internal investigations of police officers alike in internal review reports. But the reason they picked it like. I cannot guess this at the time, but it was too silly to be true was there is a. There aren't a ton of things that are exempt from the public records law in Oregon, but one thing that is exempt is numbers on an ID badge. So somebody thought this through, somebody who was really familiar with the public records law thought this through and said, OK, if we use the number from the ID badge as the cop's badge number, then if anybody asks for the list we'll say no, those are secret numbers that are, you know, we have to keep them secret for the, for the cops protection. Which is nuts, because they're wearing it out in public on their chest. But yeah, but there's like, no way to trace it back in a digital format, no way for us to, for sure. That's right. I assume they have some way. Yeah. The early marches had been absolutely enormous, but almost everyone there fell into the simple category of protester. There were some very overworked medics, but Portland lacked the sheer variety of specialties among the activists that allowed Hong Kong's protest movement to persist for so long. That changed over the first few weeks of the uprising, as people who never thought of themselves as particularly radical fell into new roles. There were no longer just St medics, but shield bearing, frontliners people armed with traffic cones and water to douse tear gas. Other activists provided food and equipment and a handful of Portlanders. Again learning the trade of the conflict journalist while Portland's professional press got used to packing body armor alongside their camera notebook. As in any mass movement, there was bound to be disagreements and infighting. People had differing opinions on everything from looting to dumpster fires to how much fence shaking was acceptable, and the usefulness of large marches that stayed completely peaceful despite those differences. People did keep coming out day after day, night after night, for the entire first half of June, some of those people. Are still coming out even now. Yeah. I was six kind of me personally expecting just for people just to maybe be protesting a week to, you know, not, not, not much and then, you know, quote UN quote back to normal life. But you know, yeah. And then it's been now five months at it. So yeah. And I kept going with because my I just felt really strongly to keep going and especially with what I was doing. As for photographing at all, I just had this passion that I was like, OK, I got to keep going. So, yeah, I've I haven't stopped. As June wore on, the number of people out at nightly demonstrations began to drop. Crowds of thousands became crowds of hundreds. A certain mania took over the increasingly hardened core of the Portland BLM movement, who seems to feel the need to confront police every single night without pause. It exhausted many protesters and journalists. Cosca describes the feeling well. I I mean it was it was every night and it was it was nonstop and I remember. Once when they when they when they had the double fences up in front of the Justice Center, I remember when some people walking away from it and they were telling me that the protest was cancelled and I said there's no such thing as as canceling. This was like this to me. I was. I even said it on one of my videos and it probably sounds kind of cheesy, but I was like, this feels like the energy for this rebellion is coming from some some unknown place. Like, like I said, it's. Almost supernatural because. It was pushing people beyond their human limits. Like, for me, I'm not the kind of person that will, you know, interrupt my sleep schedule for almost anything. But I didn't really sleep or eat or drink as you're supposed to for almost two months because I was so wrapped up in in what was happening. And then I didn't know that. For a while I didn't know that other cities were still protesting for a long time because I, you know, didn't even have time to check the news because it would take me, you know, since I'm older, it takes me longer to recover from that. So the whole, you know, I would be recovering the whole time, not protesting. While I was not protesting, I'd be recovering from protesting. That's pretty much all I did for almost two months. Looking back on the early days of the uprising, you can see all the little things that happened in order to transform this into more than just a regular protest. Every day the brutality from the previous night rekindled peoples desire for change. Repeated tear gassings forced the crowd to get good at reforming after being dispersed. As the days turned into weeks, protesters started mirroring Hong Kong tactics. More and more established activist groups provided support for new activists with new ideas. On June 17th, inspired by Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Portland protesters announced plans for an autonomous zone of their own. This AZ was limited to a single city block. In front of Mayor Ted Wheeler's luxury condo, where protesters set up tents, ate pizza, and played dance music late into the night, the Portland police ousted the occupation early the following morning, but protesters were clearly learning valuable lessons. Drinks, pizza, medical support and a speaker system arrived within the first hour of the occupation. Barricades went up soon after, followed by the arrival of the autonomous zones very own portapotty. By the time the police swept through in the early morning, a surprising amount of infrastructure had been set down in a very short amount of time. 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