Portland protest day 98
Protestors are outside the sheriffs office in SE Portland
Spray painted outside the sheriffs office
“Just tonight they killed our brother Mike”
“We gotta come together as a community/because cops got qualified immunity”
Police catch every body off guard and run out to make an arrest
A car drives through the crowd aggressively
After crowd drives through aggressively, Portland police make an announcement that the street is open to traffic; and that they are trying to stop the vehicle
Analysis: the police chief says there aren’t enough officers to staff protests at night(BLM) and then again in the daytime(Trump rallies)

But how many officers to staff at night is a choice PBB makes

E.g. these 20 officers are trying to find illegally parked vehicles right now
How many officers to assign to night time protest is a choice PBB makes:

The following is a traffic stop, but ostensibly the idea is to ticket the mutual aid vehicles to dissuade them from attending protest
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