Fwd: What are you seeing? Know?

[Tom Johnson]

RE this morning's conversation about what's happening in Portland, Oregon. Dick Thompson is an old friend and a retired TIME science reporter.

Tom 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Dick Thompson <[hidden email]>
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: What are you seeing? Know?
To: Tom Johnson <[hidden email]>

I have volunteered with ACLU as a Legal Observer monitoring police interactions with protesters. I was asked to work the latest demonstrations but declined because of Covid.

Nevertheless, I'm on the Signal channel so I can see and hear what they see and hear. And it is very disturbing. The LOs have been gassed multiple times in even a single protest. They have so many flash-bangs land at their feet that they are now concerned about repeated concussions. They are using their own money to buy safety equipment including respirators and ear protection.

The demonstrations have been doing on for seven weeks. They began with George Floyd response but it has evolved to include police violence as well. And every night the police confirm they use excessive force, even on peaceful protesters.

ACLU won a temporary injunction to block police from arresting or detaining LOs and reporters. Then the fed cops come in and are not under that court order. In fact, we don't know the legal basis for any of their actions.

If you want to follow, use #portlandprotest.

I'll enclose my Indivisible Oregon post I wrote Tuesday about this:

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 9:00 AM Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/17/reports-federal-officers-detain-portland-protesters-unmarked-vans/5457471002/  

============================================
Tom Johnson - [hidden email]
Institute for Analytic Journalism   --     Santa Fe, NM USA
505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
NM Foundation for Open Government
Check out It's The People's Data                 

============================================

- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/