June 25th, Part 1: Chill Justice Center Vibes

Down at the Justice Center for that late live-tweet shift. Candlelight vigil and a good crowd#DefendPDX #PortlandProtests #PortlandProtest #RoseCityJustice #blacklivesmatter #sacredfence #pdxprotests

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

An uneasy silence, then chanting resumes by the sacred fence: re-erected after last night's shenanigans

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Something new: the PPB has boarded up the second story…window? Facade? I dunno what to call it, but it's boarded

People still fighting about RCJ. Chanting has died down again. The suspicion is both necessary and rough pic.twitter.com/hjwHAC7wka

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Announcement that 500 people took the North Precinct. The crowd approves

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

The efficiency by which the protesters dismantle and move this fence is Incredible. We are all fence experts at this point pic.twitter.com/cIbCNsEwai

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Periodically, people come up to the black femme on the megaphone of the Rose City Justice variety, asking–I assume–for her to be less divisive or to encourage a less fence-dismantling type of protest. She is NOT having it

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Protesters sitting on the JC steps, decorating the plywood with lovingly-rendered spray-paint portraits of dead pigs

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Tamir Rice would have been 18 years old today. We sing him happy birthday

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

https://t.co/5yUqWgFC2x

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Getting word that the reason we aren't seeing any pigs is because they're all up North. Solidarity to everyone holding it the fuck down out there

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Reports of cops on Burnside gearing up. So much for peace if true

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Literally 15 seconds after I send tweet the police arrives

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

If they wanted the extremely chill crowd to get less chill, they got their wish. We are at the back of the JC

Cannot overstate how much this move would not have happened without that random fucking barrage

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

And with that message delivered, we're back to the front of the JC

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020

Gonna head North to see what's going on out there. @DonovanFarley and @PDocumentarians are holding it down with the JC coverage!

— Laura Jedeed is Kind of Back I Guess (@LauraJedeed) June 26, 2020