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(it's live on the streets, language warning)
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UPDATED 6/4/20
edit: Huh. also, gone.
boom. found one. Seattle:
another one, currently New York:
Overheard through a megaphone to a large crowd of chill demonstrators in Atlanta: "If you're here for BLM sit down! If you're here for America, sit down!"
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It seems like there are areas within individual cities where you have both one large group of peaceful protestors demonstrators and you another large group of peaceful protestors walking/marching in the streets.
There are small groups within all of them that aren't going to settle for anything less than violence, well, as long as everyone else jumps in.
You can hear the distain for everyone else in their disappointment that not enough people want to "stand up" for a revolution. Once you notice it you can't un-notice it.
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It's Curfew in New York right now. We got a large group walking up to a group of officers in the center of an intersection. They are walking up to the cops chanting "peaceful protest." They knelt in front of them as the crowd lined up behind them. There was a confrontation of some sorts on camera and everyone panicked and scattered. Couldn't see what happened. He turned down a quiet street.
Civilians on megaphones calling out Antifa in DC... Civilians screaming at each other now.
Black lady on a megaphone to the crowd in front of military: "I've got a message for all the Antifa members in this motherfuckin' crowd right now. If you are here to start some riots than you are not with us. ... you do not represent us. I want you to check yourself. If you see anybody in this crowd that's on some bullshit, SHUT THAT BITCH THE FUCK UP!"
(hard to timestamp livesteam. its at about the 5:41:xx mark while the audio is on DC.)
You guys will like this update - 9:20 pm - authentic, replica Batman has been spotted on the streets of Washington DC! Had to cost at least $300.
Portland, OR. 9:30 pm:
Just saw a lady carrying a intermediate sized sign. It said, "FUCK" .
that's it. It just said "FUCK"
Transcribed from Jmal Davis FB - Oakland CA
"We will vote you out. If you not enacting change for us, move. It's that simple. To you anarchists, understand this. (white lady behind him taps him) We are not, going to tollerate you chaos any longer.
(lady behind him taps him again, motions the "cut it" gesture to her neck. He leans in and says "huh?").
"Alright, my fault. I know some of ya'lls enemies are in this crowd."
(some one in the crowd, "that's ok! say it again!")
"My fault. My fault."
(guy again, "exactly, enemies of the crowd. Say it!")
"We'd like to thank, our allies, but what's most important, is that you continuing your your fight in your own communities, in your companies, in your households. Because many, many of your households have that mindset of the enemy, and to be on the right side on the history and stand against that. No longer, can we allow passive ally-ship. To be an ally, it is a responsibility 24/7, 365 days of the year, not just when an innocent black man is shot. That's important. So always keep that in mind, and again, to my people, all black lives matter. We cannot, cannot, fight with each other. We may disagree religiously, we may disagree culturally. Be we have to take a lesson from Africa. We have to stand together this time around. We cannot allow the system to infiltrate us and divide us any longer. We are one people."
The lady who apparently identifies as an anarchist, who was behind him, has the mic now. She passed it to her friend, who wants to "tell Oakland about the new Anarchy movement."
Getting a little wild in Iowa City.
Large group was encroaching closer and closer and closer to the line of officers. Not sure if contact was made or not (they were face to face) eventually tear gas was used. The crowd backed away, got pissed, locked arms, and tried walking back up on them.
They got it again.
Now it's escalating. multiple canisters, the kids aren't leaving, they are kicking the cans back. The phone cam lady who thought she was at safe distance got a smoke bomb right next to her feet. A civilian car appears behind the officers and there is confusion about what it's doing. ... nothing it turns out.
There are individuals walking right up to the cops ready to shove. The cops respond again, they back up.
They're holding their hands up and walking up to them again now, "hands up don't shoot." A smaller group got right on top of them and they deployed the gas again. The smaller group threw them all back.
I can't understand what these people think they are achieving or accomplishing here. (I don't even see a Black Lives Matter sign out there in Iowa...) I don't see National Guard - looks like heavily armed State Police. A group of 12ish is fixing to push the cops again for fun...
everywhere else, crowds are getting larger and larger.
Seattle has a ton of people sitting peacefully in front of police. Many are standing. Police are just standing guard in the street in front of the sitters. Has to be thousands of people out there. Those folks up front have been there for hours and hours. It seems like they'll be there all night peacefully.
Seattle guy goes, "HEY, IF YOU'RE SMOKING CIGARETTES YOU ARE BEING DISRESPECTFUL. ITS COVID SEASON. CUT THAT SHIT OUT." The crowd gets quiet. The speaker senses it, "BUT I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE OTHER STUFF!" The crowd somehow got quieter.
Washington DC has a group of about 50 that looks like they just got eliminated by a 12 year old in Call of Duty standing in front of the military, and a lot of people just pacing back and forth behind them in the streets angry. The Army there is really just chilling; a female Soldier leans on her transparent shield. It certainly seems like it's getting quieter there. Not sure if people are going home or have simply left the area on cam. Unless provoked, it seems like it will remain peaceful all night there too.
Oakland is rappin' Ludacris in the streets.
Portland has a guy doing commentary. Says there is a mix of crowds and a large crowd of many thousands. The mixed groups are all kinda working at getting the crowd to go. He's "not sure how this is really going to go." He's pretty close to a line of officers standing guard behind a fence. Protestors are all standing against against the fence on the other side. The State Police have ordered 3 times through a loud speaker: "Do not touch the fence. If you touch the fence we will arrest you, and will use force."
He says, "Lotta bullhorns (speaking at the crowd) going on here." "There's one crowd that seems to want more direct action. Which might mean a confrontation with the fence. And then there's the crowd that wants to talk to the police again. This guy is yelling counter to what some of the other organizers are yelling, telling em stand the fuck up, while they repeatedly get folks to kneel.
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The media can call these "protests" or "demonstrations" or whatever they'd like tomorrow - each city had it's own unique messages being shared and sent. It's really awesome to contrast the similarities and differences between people in our country city to city. It sure isn't what it sounds like online.
In DC, a group of 10 guys have talking shit to the soldiers all night by themselves.
Been going up and down the line of soldiers and ripping each one to shit about how worthless everything about them is.
A man from the sidewalk needed some protection from a group of guys chasing him. He ran up to the Soldiers in line, then turned his back to them to face the men chasing him. As he leaned against his Armed brothers and sisters, the instigators taunted him. Then those guys started trying to punch at him but he took up a fighting stance. They tried to swipe him with a kick, then a Soldier pulled him all the way in to their group and they escorted him out the back of their formation.
We've got our first fire in Portland, Oregon! Looks like a dumpster? A bunch of white kids standing around it. There's a building nearby too. In the foreground of the shot is a sign that declares the area a "Gun Free" area.
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