Occupy Portland sustained Portland Police Bureau’s attempted eviction from Shemanski Park. Approximately 75 demonstrators remained in the early morning. Thirty demonstrators slept in the park overnight. The Portland Police Bureau released a statement that Occupy Portland demonstrators used children as human shields and that no children suffered injury. Oregonian photographer Ray Whitehouse published evidence of…
Tag: Police Brutality
Police Brutality: Send Evidence Here
Urgent request to the public: to end the police coverup of violence, we need your photos and videos that show police brutality in progress. Upload your photos and videos to any service you like (Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) and send links to your evidence, labeled Police Brutality, to the following addresses: mediacoalition@occupyportland.org and press@occupyportland.org…
Sunday Was Our Beat-Down
By Judas James Around 7 a.m. Sunday morning I was sleeping in my tent when my whole tent shook, and it was a Portland Police Officer telling me I had five minutes to leave. As I crawled out of my tent, I saw everybody else coming out of theirs. The cops were actually nice about…
