“Even if they said that they were going to be pulling out today, it still felt important to be here” From 1843mag
t’s almost midnight, on the night of Thursday July 30th, and the crowd is becoming restless. Over a thousand Portlanders have filled the streets and city parks across from the federal courthouse – an imposing, 16-storey building, supported by large concrete pillars covered in anti-police graffiti. Before its front doors, the protesters are chanting, pacing and staring fixedly in excited trepidation.
So far, this is a very different scene to the previous evening. By this time last night protesters had clashed with federal police officers in this small section of downtown Portland, facing a barrage of tear gas, stun grenades and other “less-lethal” munitions. But that was just in the small hours.
“Even if they said that they were going to be pulling out today, it still felt important to be here,” said Aubrey Williams, a young, black woman who was attending one of these demonstrations for the fourth time. “And just because they say it’s going to happen doesn’t mean we should stop doing what we need to do.”
But many black civic leaders in Portland have expressed concern that the intent of the protests has been obscured not only by the nightly violence, but by spectacles that suck up media coverage like the Wall of Moms and “Naked Athena”, an anonymous woman who stripped her clothes off and faced down federal officers.
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