Orders over scanner to “use the 40mm marking rounds, blue or gel, to deal with the rock throwers”
One officer is stating that his “marking rounds need to be replenished”
Protest size around 3rd Precinct hasn’t changed in the past 40 minutes. No officers have been hurt, per scanner.
Officer requesting large lights behind precinct to blind protestors. States protestors are using headlights to blind officers while throwing rocks at them.
Asking to shine lights into Target parking lot to blind protestors.
Protestors blockading Lake St with shopping carts. A semi truck has been barricaded in
Unit 1281 is about to get his resupply of marking rounds
Officers asking about taking off masks, supervisor advised removal of masks is okay, no plans to use gas in near future. Remove masks slowly and not all at once to avoid crowd noticing
Protestors using laser beam at 3rd Precinct to “light up officers”
Facebook stream reporting an armed militia is enroute to 3rd Precinct, per scanner
Someone in a green truck reporting bleeding from arm after being hit by rubber bullets
“They have a paintball gun for the officers leaving the target parking lot”

To be clear, the protestors have the paintball gun
“We can’t be taking paintballs to the face”
Police barricade trailer 3 minutes out.
Protestors have a shopping cart full of rocks
Officers requesting to shoot out parking lot lights in Target parking lot
Lights out by electrical disconnection
Shots fired

I don’t know location or relation to protests
Another report of paintball gun in Target parking lot
Sounds like the shots fired call was outside 1405 21st and nobody reported being hit
Cop just gave his cell number over the radio. It’s hard not to troll that
“Large brick thrown at our officers in front of precinct”
Rocks coming from autozone lot
Requesting more barricades around front door (3rd Precinct, likely), area is being overrun
Officer just took a rock to the neck. Didn’t listen to wu-tang
More rocks coming from northwest corner by Target sign
It should be illegal for cops to use cell phones while I’m live tweeting their radios
“Kids running through parking lot at CVS”

Maybe they wanted exercise
Pedestrian hit by vehicle on W Broadway
Now they’re just calling in pedestrians for fitting the description of earlier calls
Officer request to “replenish greentips again”
All 3rd Precinct day watch officers being called to return to precinct
A citizen just snitched on where the rock like is
Cops going to look for rock pile. “Don’t lose a window out of that nice marked squad [jeep?]”
Aerial fireworks thrown at police perimeter. Greentips deployed by police
More rocks thrown from autozone. One more greentip deployed
More rocks from northwest corner. Two more greentips deployed
More rocks from Arizona parking lot. Two more greentips deployed
*autozone
“I think some of them are hearing radio transmissions”

Yes, we are
“Can you meet me at the lobby of the precinct, with this group gathering it might change things a little bit”
The boogaloo boys are reportedly there to protest the police, but I will remind you they ARE NOT allies.
More squad cars are being damaged
Orders to move six squad cars right away
Setting up double line of barricades then moving squad cars out
Still discussing barricade placement
Cops about to try to remove a couple squad cars from the north side of the precinct
“Multiple glass bottles deployed”
“All officer to go behind barriers, more bottles being thrown”
“Taking rocks by the liquor store”
“They broke out a 2’ by 6’ size hole by the door” at the liquor store
Coordinating to bring in owner of liquor store to secure bundling. One broken window, all doors locked
I’m seeing a lot about far-right militias discussing using this as an opportunity to attack the police. I don’t know what the fuck is going on but 2020 is fucked
A “suspect” fled in a vehicle while police were talking to them. Hope they stay safe
“All 3rd precinct officers in front lobby for a 303”
“We seem to have a Good Samaritan as a guard out front”
“Black and white sweatshirt has a pocket full of rocks”
“The hostile crowd is towards the front of the building” discussing bringing liquor store owner to rear of building to repair window
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