Protests

Timeline

Tonight people gathered in Pioneer Square for a vigil in honor of Hamza “Travis” Nagdy, who died in a shooting in Louisville on Sunday night.

A candlelight vigil for #TravisNagdy at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. The friends and family of Hamza "Travis" Nagdy were in attendance and shared their heartfelt memories. #BlackLivesMatter #Louisville #portlandprotest #PDXprotests pic.twitter.com/OUYFfv21ut

— Clementson Supriyadi (@cdsupriyadi) November 24, 2020

Someone who was friends with him sings a chant that Travis came up with pic.twitter.com/IgHeeUm4jU

— Alissa Azar (@R3volutionDaddy) November 24, 2020

“You say we need to make a change but are we really gonna do it? Are we just gonna continue to… are we just gonna continue this cycle of genocide?” @RageRagina is guilty of countless teary eyes tonight from this emotional speech pic.twitter.com/fN7IvZnBgX

— Alissa Azar (@R3volutionDaddy) November 24, 2020

Media

Present

• Alissa Azar @R3volutionDaddy – CashApp: $pdxalissa / Venmo: @R3volutionDaddy
• Clementson Supriyadi @cdsupriyadi

Articles

OPB

In America’s whitest city, Black activists struggle to separate themselves from anarchists

Inmates file class action lawsuit after tear gas repeatedly pours into cells during nightly protests

The Oregonian

Inmates at downtown Portland jail file class-action suit over tear gas seeping into cells during protests

Willamette Week

County Jail Inmates File Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Exposure to Tear Gas During Portland Protests

Police

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6 years ago today Tamir Rice was murdered by Cleveland, Ohio police. Rest in Power, Tamir.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of Tamir’s life being stolen by police.
He was 12 years old.

Rest in Power, Tamir Rice. #SayHisName pic.twitter.com/UhI8e4iX5d

— #??????? (@safePDXprotest) November 22, 2020

Media

Articles

KOIN

• Photos: Armed protesters gather in front of Gov. Brown’s residence

Mother Jones

• What Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 Million Fundraiser Reveals About the Unequal System of Justice in America

The Oregonian

• Prominent Oregon Latinos condemn lawsuit that challenges state’s fund for Black Oregonians
• Where Trump’s legal team cried election fraud, courts have found none

Public Books

• HOW TO DEFUND THE POLICE

The event that was planned for this evening has been cancelled after the details were leaked on social media.

Heads up! Action tonight leaked and has been cancelled, there's cops circling the area.

— Karkat ↙↙↙ ACAB (@AddriBlack) November 22, 2020

Media

Articles

OPB

• Protester shot by US Marshals in Portland back in hospital with infection related to injury (Note: You can donate to the gofundme for Donavan LaBella’s medical bills here.)

The Oregonian

• Guatemala’s Congress building set on fire as 10,000 protest
• No, a million people did not attend pro-Trump rally in D.C.
• Salem protesters declare, ‘We will not comply’ with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s new COVID-19 rules

Timeline

Protesters gathered in NE Portland for the Trans Day of Remembrance, and marched to several businesses around NE Sandy and 42nd Ave. While there, they tagged buildings and broke windows at Whole Foods and bank branches.

It's 39 degrees and I'm coming to you live from the streets of Portland. Group is in Bloc and layered up. They're hidden, scattered in thick fog. Not sure how live I'll be due to security but I'll be updating what I can. pic.twitter.com/pnrs7bXGzz

— Griffin – Live Protest News (@GriffinMalone6) November 21, 2020

Trans day of remembrance March pic.twitter.com/O2SY7HNJMh

— Griffin – Live Protest News (@GriffinMalone6) November 21, 2020

Graffiti references the death of Tete Gulley, a Black trans woman who was found hanged to death at Rocky Butte Park in May 2019. Family and friends believe she was murdered, and the police have refused to investigate.

Trans remembrance day of rage. POC business avoided by the group. Wells Fargo, chase, banks, real estate have been tagged with Tete Gulley's name. pic.twitter.com/XpVhA7wecN

— Griffin – Live Protest News (@GriffinMalone6) November 21, 2020

Other protesters are reported to have gathered downtown, tagging the Consulate General of Mexico at SW 12th and Jefferson.

As today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, protesters move tonight from The South Park Blocks to the Consulate of Mexico in Portland, before spray painting the building. This is after years of reports & data of discrimination towards women & the LGBTQ community in Mexico. pic.twitter.com/e1Y50ao3S3

— Independent Media PDX (@NDpendentPDX) November 21, 2020

No arrests were made at either location.

Media

Present

• Griffin Malone – CashApp $griffinmalone

Articles

KOIN

• ‘Kill list’ letters sent to Portland activists, journalists
• PPB: Two dozen businesses, Mexican Consulate vandalized Friday

The Oregonian

• Activists, journalists targeted in ‘kill list,’ one of several racist notes sent to public figures this week
• Portland to seek outside candidates for new community safety director’s job
• Protesters in NE Portland break windows at Whole Foods, other businesses

Portland Mercury

TriMet Plans Mental Health Crisis Response Team Pilot, Other Transit Safety Reforms

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Number of arrests

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Timeline

This morning, a city crew arrived at the camp at Laurelhurst Park that mutual aid groups have been supporting to begin a sweep. Protest-related groups have been there daily to support the houseless community since the original date was announced earlier this month.

I’m at laurelhurst park where city contractors are clearing a large encampment of houseless Portlanders. It’s the night after a heavy rain—tents are soaked, people are crying as they pack their belongings. pic.twitter.com/fTJQcjVyLa

— Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) November 19, 2020

Contractors with Rapid Response are urging folks to move their belongings before 10, which is when police are expected to show up.

— Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) November 19, 2020

I am live tweeting from #Laurelhurst Park where the city of Portland is sweeping the encampment. I talked with Pony, who gestures toward his tent. “This was the first time I had a structure in eight years.” pic.twitter.com/SaQnJDnPP1

— Kaia Sand (@mkaiasand) November 19, 2020

Walking up to the stretches of tents and tarps on this bright winter day during these difficult days of the pandemic, I’m struck by the large houses — mansions even — looking out over the stretch of tents. This is the landscape of our city and its extreme disparities.

— Kaia Sand (@mkaiasand) November 19, 2020

“An insufficient number of shelter beds as the primary option is not a policy … that is merely rhetoric,” John Mayer of Beacon PDX says. Some people are moving to Mt Scott shelter. He adds that this is happening when the “governor is asking those of us with homes to stay put.” pic.twitter.com/M1QEBqnNaT

— Kaia Sand (@mkaiasand) November 19, 2020

Propped against a tent — a reminder of #MutualAid pic.twitter.com/Xslo8d4QW8

— Kaia Sand (@mkaiasand) November 19, 2020

Downtown, a Back the Blue group has returned to the Justice Center. Last Thursday, BLM protesters confronted them at this location.

Portland police are checking concealed gun permits of “Back the blue” demonstrators outside the justice center pic.twitter.com/pXzi3eWMfs

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Portland police separate the two sides pic.twitter.com/MSs5QWL10T

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Portland police sergeant tells both sides to stay off the street or receive a citation pic.twitter.com/OgCE1R0CLU

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Portland police sergeant tells both sides to stay off the street or receive a citation pic.twitter.com/OgCE1R0CLU

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Outside of justice center pic.twitter.com/KbytzSKw9E

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Police come out to check for CHL’s. One woman briefly flashes members of the crowd with her handgun. pic.twitter.com/5s2XDCJOoZ

— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) November 19, 2020

“Back the blue” demonstrators pic.twitter.com/AkKYm91J01

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

The man who shoved me switches his weapons. One person on the antifascist side is also armed. pic.twitter.com/iryc0lgmgL

— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) November 19, 2020

Militia bois protecting the justice center. Three total arrests on the antifascist side, including a minor. Unsure what the reasons are for the adults. Police said the minor had a warrant but was detained for other reasons. pic.twitter.com/2nancgeJbI

— Alissa Azar (@R3volutionDaddy) November 19, 2020

Police detain “back the blue” demonstrator for carrying a loaded gun.

Man with bat follows officers pic.twitter.com/nPgdipc6bN

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Some Police officers have brought out rifles pic.twitter.com/fg4mdWKChT

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Ppb just told my friend that it’s illegal to have a megaphone and tried following him… uh?

— Alissa Azar (@R3volutionDaddy) November 19, 2020

CW for anti-semitic rant:

A woman on the MAGA/Back the Blue side goes on a rant about how the cabal of Banksters, Pharisees, Lizard, and Serpent people (who also are the same group that killed Jesus) are using nano technology in the new COVID-19 vaccine to initiate a globalist New World Order. pic.twitter.com/grcO7x6umC

— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) November 19, 2020

The “back the blue” demonstrator that was detained is now out pic.twitter.com/Lw7dHItUrE

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

Pepper spray in the air pic.twitter.com/TPmZXs4sbj

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

DHS is watching from across the street pic.twitter.com/JGc0t9P813

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 19, 2020

A reporter is given a citation for being in the street:

Instead of doing his actual job pic.twitter.com/8lDNGQoviM

— Alissa Azar (@R3volutionDaddy) November 19, 2020

November 19, 2020

1: looking at the crowd in front of the Multnomah County Justice Center from across the street, through a “FUCK TRUMP 2020” flag

2: a PPB officer at SW 2nd and Madison after the “back the blue” folks crossed over to the parking lot

3-4: one of the “patriots” pic.twitter.com/60gRvGeLcF

— e c o n o m y b r e a k f a s t (@econbrkfst) November 20, 2020

Media

Present

• Alex Zielinski (Portland Mercury)
• Alissa Azar @R3volutionDaddy – CashApp: $pdxalissa / Venmo: @R3volutionDaddy
• Garrison Davis – CashApp $hungrybowtie / paypal.me/garrisondavispdx
• Kaia Sand (Street Roots)
• Nick Lee – CashApp: $economybreakfast / PayPal: economybreakfast@gmail.com
• Sergio Olmos (OPB) 

Articles

OPB

Pro-police demonstrators carry guns, scuffle with detractors in downtown Portland

The Oregonian

• Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty issues statement on controversial Lyft ride
• Demonstrator wounded by police munition back in hospital with new infection, mother says
• State moves to permanently strip police powers from Clackamas County deputy convicted of domestic violence
• In 2019, the Portland police Gun Violence team made 1,600 stops. More than half were Black people.
• Workers begin sweeping Portland’s Laurelhurst Park homeless camp

Portland Mercury

City Begins Clearing Laurelhurst Park Homeless Camp

Portland Tribune

Portland crews clear out Laurelhurst Park homeless camp 

Willamette Week

Portland’s Democratic Socialists of America Co-Chair Is Suing an Alleged Proud Boy for Doxxing

Police

Agencies present

• Portland Police Bureau
• Federal Protective Service (DHS)

Munitions used

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Number of arrests

None reported as of noon 11/20

Charges

N/A

There were no protests in Portland today.

Media

Articles

Bellingcat

• Million MAGA March: Unravelling a Violent Viral Video

OPB

• To avoid fight with Portland police union over new oversight board, City Hall pushes new bill in Salem

The Oregonian

• Opinion: Boost democracy in Portland’s elections with ranked-choice voting
• Portland strippers who rallied against discrimination file labor charges against clubs

Portland Mercury

• Following Election Setbacks, Portland Progressives Plot Path Forward
• Good Afternoon, News: Tootie’s Superspreader Thanksgiving, City Council Leans Right, and Loser Trump Can’t Stop Losing
• Good Morning, News: COVID Vaccine Almost Ready for Approval, Statewide “Freeze” Starts Today, and Selfish “Tootie” Embarrasses Oregon

There were no protests today in Portland.

Media

Articles

Anonymous Comrades Collective

• Doxer Gets Doxed: “Proud Boy” Chadwick Jason Seagraves of NCSU

Newsweek

• Mitch McConnell Vows ‘Orderly’ Transfer of Power Will Happen On Time Despite Trump’s Refusal to Concede

The New York Times

• Trump fires Christopher Krebs, official who disputed his election fraud claims.

OPB

• Murphy’s choice: Fed official has say on transition launch
• Plan revived for dam removal on Klamath River in Oregon, California
• What a summer of protests could mean for Portland’s DOJ settlement agreement

The Oregonian

• After presidential election, talk begins about who may seek to be Oregon’s next U.S. attorney
• Noted civil rights attorney accuses Clark County of coverup after deputies killed Kevin Peterson Jr.
• Readers respond: Hardesty’s 911 call is hypocrisy
• Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 election security

Portland Mercury

• Good Afternoon, News: COVID Hospitalizations On the Rise, Loser Trump Can’t Stop Losing, and Dolly Parton: American Savior

Southern Poverty Law Center

• Extremists Are Cashing in on a Youth-Targeted Gaming Website

Vice

• These US Sheriffs Are Refusing to Enforce COVID Restrictions

No protests scheduled today.

Media

Articles

Los Angeles Times

Portland’s anarchists say they support racial justice. Black activists want nothing to do with them

The Oregonian

• Portland police report 6,283 uses of force during protests in 2020, but data has significant gaps
• Ted Wheeler asks Portland police chief, 911 director for report on emergency call response times

Portland Mercury

Portland Police Have Used Force Against Protesters More Than 6,000 Times in 2020

There were no protests in Portland today.

Media

Articles

Business Insider

• Native voters aren’t ‘something else’ — we helped swing the presidential election

The Oregonian

• Donald Trump tweets ‘He won,’ but won’t concede to Biden and plans to continue to try to overturn election result
• No, lots of dead people did not vote in Pennsylvania; here’s why some voters appear impossibly old
• Violent clashes in DC after Trump backers’ election protest

Summary

During the day, a right-wing “Defeat the Steal” rally took place in front of the capitol building in Salem. The event didn’t draw any counter-protesters, so the approximately 200 rally-goers waved flags and listened to speeches for the duration of the event.

In the evening, a leftist demonstration took place at Esther Short Park in Vancouver, Washington. This event was immediately met by a small group of counter-protesters, some of whom were open carrying firearms. The counter-protesters harassed leftist protesters and followed them with strobing lights, which caused one member of the press to have a seizure, when they attempted to move away from them. The group of protesters marched around the downtown Vancouver area, but with both a right-wing and police presence in the area, the night ended by 10 pm.

Scheduled Events

• Direct Action @ Esther Short Park – 8 pm

Timeline

A right-wing “Defeat the Steal” rally begins around 11 am in Salem.

The Elk is here. It was originally “nightmare elk” created by BLM activists in downtown Portland. It was taken one morning by members of proud boys/patriot prayer and transformed to “patriot elk”

It is on display like a hunting trophy pic.twitter.com/LtuO2Wjwv3

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

About 70 people at the Oregon Capitol for a “stop the steal” rally pic.twitter.com/R2bLdW7E2A

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

National Anthem with proud boy flags surrounding American flag pic.twitter.com/p3x2hlmD3M

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

Numbers grow outside the Salem Capitol building:

About 200 people at a “defeat the steal” rally in Salem, Oregon pic.twitter.com/ks1Prj51SS

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

No counter protestors, just a lot of this pic.twitter.com/PYobeNkfou

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

Consistent with other rallies like this: American flags are outnumbered pic.twitter.com/D3KveMkMoR

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

Some proud boys have “Kyle” on their clothes, a reference to Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with killing two Kenosha protestors pic.twitter.com/aIUGq2qpxJ

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

Proud boys stand on stage for photo pic.twitter.com/cBJI61XEIx

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

To note: last rally Oregon state police declared a BLM protest unlawful for blocking the street.

No police presence today. pic.twitter.com/RKt51Ish60

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

Police presence: pic.twitter.com/FE2Hwts2ir

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

A group of reporters are subjected to threatening behavior by one of the rally-goers:

This was the conversation before Sergio started recording. pic.twitter.com/VP1BAshWHS

— Justin Yau (@PDocumentarians) November 15, 2020

This gentlemen followed a group of reporters to our cars, he knew us by name, he said he looked us up and knew where some of us lived. pic.twitter.com/rK7GZa2jgK

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) November 14, 2020

In the evening protesters gather at Esther Short Park in Vancouver, Washington, just over the river from Portland, for a demonstration.

The group is small but slowly growing bigger and wetter.

VPD is circling the park.

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

Some right wing counter protesters have shown up across the street. pic.twitter.com/ZG6r0egb9r

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

Antifa asked the right wingers how it feels to lose to Joe Biden, and they claim they didn't lose.

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

“Raise your hand if you fucked your cousin?”

Verbal sparring is exchanged. A few of the more geared up counter protesters leave the area, walkie talkies glowing in the dark.

— Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (@Claudio_Report) November 15, 2020

*FLASH WARNING*: The footage below contains multiple rapidly flashing lights.

Right wingers currently following the march through the park with strobes. pic.twitter.com/Xovlcc8pi2

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

Far right extremists are guarding the march, police do nothing to intervene pic.twitter.com/5m0zVzkrQv

— Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (@Claudio_Report) November 15, 2020

Journalist Melissa Lewis is hurt by the right-wing counterprotesters’ flashing lights and departs from the demonstration.

Far right extremists have caused a seizure with their strobe. The person is safe and leaving in a car.

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

*FLASH WARNING*: The footage below contains a rapidly flashing light.

I’m safe at home now, but I don’t think it’s surprising based on this video that the fascists gave me a seizure. I collapsed shortly after this was taken. I was extracted and taken home. pic.twitter.com/SNzczdpRky

— Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (@Claudio_Report) November 15, 2020

The small crowd marches around downtown Vancouver chanting:

"Fuck Trump, Fuck Biden too, they don't give a fuck about you!'

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

By 10 pm members of the press and most protesters have left the area and the night is over.

Im out, as are most Protesters. I would like to report that nothing was broken or vandalized yet VPD showed up in riot gear and blocked the movement of the crowd who were trying to move away from the far right group which had already caused a seizure in a member of the press.

— Cascadianphotog Media (@Cascadianphotog) November 15, 2020

Media

Present

• Jacob Hanning & Melissa Lewis @Cascadianphotog – Cashapp: $cascadianphotog / Venmo: cascadianphotog / paypal.me/Cascadianphotog
• Justin Yau @PDocumentarians  – CashApp: $portlandindepend / PayPal: https://paypal.me/portlandindepend
• Melissa “Claudio” Lewis – Cashapp: $ClaudioReport / Venmo: Claudio_Report
• Sergio Olmos (OPB)

Articles

The Oregonian

• Acting Homeland Security head assumed job unlawfully, didn’t have authority to suspend DACA, federal judge rules
• Portland’s purloined ‘Nightmare Elk’ statue turns up at pro-Trump rally in Salem

Willamette Week

• Diverging From a Policy Set in March, Portland Police Will Continue Booking Misdemeanor Arrests in Jail as COVID Cases Spike
• The Founders of Black Founders Matter Are Interested in the Color of Money

Police

Agencies Present

• Vancouver Police Department

Munitions

None

Arrests

None

Charges

None