Crowd shouting feds go home. Feds still shooting rounds of what are likely pepper balls.

Video of federal agents firing pepper balls at a line of protesters with DIY shields.

Continued standoff. I believe this person with the shield is filming behind it. Front of the shield says “press.” Amazing.

To the west of this street, @riotribs is still cooking in Lownsdale park (apologies if I said Chapman earlier, that’s the other park.) honestly, the folks in the park look like they’re just hanging out. Could be wrong! Just watching from across the street.

In front of the line of DIY shields and umbrellas, two young people stand unarmed without helmets, gas masks, or even long sleeves/pants.

Line of shields just advanced a few feet.

Line of shields advanced again! Looks like there’s also a lot going on over on 3rd and salmon, a block north. (That’s where the cloud of gas is in the background. There are feds lined up in the foreground.)

Someone shouts “if we buy you new plywood, will you stop killing Black people?”

A reminder that the federal officers have ostensibly been sent here to protect federal buildings, such as the courthouse.

Tonight, the colonizer statue features the remains of a tiny trash fire, plus some tape that says “land back” over the people’s mouths.

Definitely something going on a block north. More tear gas and more flash bangs. I want to get over there and also don’t know how without getting shot at. So that’s fun.

Federal agents retreat in a cloud of smoke and tear gas. I can barely see them in this video because of all the smoke/gas.

All of this white powder is from exploded pepper balls. They emit a cloud of pepper spray (essentially) when they hit their target, making them painful on the eyes, nose, and wherever they hit.

There’s a trash can on fire on 5th but I’m wary to take a video because Andy N*o will steal it and say that antifa lit the entire city on fire. Here’s a gif though. As bait.

There’s a scooter in the fire. Remember when we had time to care about e-scooters?

Related to the last tweet and also this: the fun thing about being independent press is that you get to be as petty as you want, as long as you don’t care about ever getting gigs again https://twitter.com/extracelestial/status/1285489604024340482?s=21 https://twitter.com/extracelestial/status/1285489604024340482

Video from a few minutes ago as the federal agents retreated. A protester tosses a canister of tear gas back towards the courthouse.

That’s actually it from me tonight. Follow everyone I mentioned earlier for continued updates—it’s not over. See y’all at 8am.

lol remember on PKAZ night when I stayed out until 2am and was like “WOW SO LATE” and now leaving at 1:30am feels like an early night???

In other news I’m out of chips.