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grasswire

(50,130 posts) Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:04 AM Nov 2014

11 p.m. Portland police about to arrest 200 protestors including Jesse Jackson.

NBC affiliate reports right now that about 200 people including reporters and Jesse Jackson have been KETTLED about 2nd and Main SW and are told they are under arrest.

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11 p.m. Portland police about to arrest 200 protestors including Jesse Jackson. (Original Post) grasswire Nov 2014 OP

they are kettled right outside the main precinct.. grasswire Nov 2014 #1

TV crews have been allowed to move outside the kettled area. grasswire Nov 2014 #2

Over half a century after he marched with MLK, Rev. Jackson is still struggling for justice. Zorra Nov 2014 #3

true grasswire Nov 2014 #5

police now allowing protestors to leave one by one. grasswire Nov 2014 #4

Constitution, right to protest... woo me with science Nov 2014 #6

Portland Ore? dixiegrrrrl Nov 2014 #7

Portland, OR.... not Maine n/t PasadenaTrudy Nov 2014 #8

haven't you heard Portland's nickname when it comes to civil rights disobedience? grasswire Nov 2014 #9

Somehow that name escaped me. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2014 #10

so named by staff of G.H.W. Bush in the early 1990s grasswire Nov 2014 #13

Could they just do this in order sadoldgirl Nov 2014 #11

Only in America do we have the right to free protest... Initech Nov 2014 #12

As Occupied said in NYC, in answer to being charged with failure to get a permit: dixiegrrrrl Nov 2014 #14

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

1. they are kettled right outside the main precinct..

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:14 AM

Nov 2014

....and now are being cuffed, searched, and taken inside the jail one by one.

Interesting concept -- kettle the protestors at the precinct itself.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

2. TV crews have been allowed to move outside the kettled area.

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:14 AM

Nov 2014

No news on where Jesse Jackson is.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

3. Over half a century after he marched with MLK, Rev. Jackson is still struggling for justice.

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:26 AM

Nov 2014

And conservative America is still struggling against it.

Thank you, Rev.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

5. true

Reply to Zorra (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:30 AM

Nov 2014

Rev. Jackson garnered nine million votes for president before they beat him down in the court of public opinion.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

4. police now allowing protestors to leave one by one.

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:29 AM

Nov 2014

Who knows why they would arrest some one by one, and then allow the remainder to leave one by one?

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

6. Constitution, right to protest...

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 09:52 AM

Nov 2014

just a goddamned piece of paper.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

7. Portland Ore?

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 12:22 PM

Nov 2014

or Maine?

I was just thinking the other day that I had not heard of any protests in Portland Ore
so if it has come to that laid back city, the country is in trouble.

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)

8. Portland, OR.... not Maine n/t

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 12:24 PM

Nov 2014

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

9. haven't you heard Portland's nickname when it comes to civil rights disobedience?

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 01:25 PM

Nov 2014

Little Beirut.

For decades now.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

10. Somehow that name escaped me.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 04:43 PM

Nov 2014

Had no idea.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

13. so named by staff of G.H.W. Bush in the early 1990s

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #10)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 07:14 PM

Nov 2014

...because of the intense protests Portland brought to "greet" him. Now a proud tradition.

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)

11. Could they just do this in order

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 04:49 PM

Nov 2014

to give the protesters a police record? A lot of these people

might get into trouble because of this, although it will not

make a difference to J. Jackson.

Initech

(100,071 posts)

12. Only in America do we have the right to free protest...

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 05:26 PM

Nov 2014

But we get arrested and hauled to jail for exercising that right.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

14. As Occupied said in NYC, in answer to being charged with failure to get a permit:

Reply to Initech (Reply #12)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 07:31 PM

Nov 2014

This is a protest movement, we don't NEED your permission to exercise our rights.

Yeah...like that.

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