Watching police VS Occupy Portland Live
It is about 2:30am and things are starting to get interesting. The mayor had given Occupy Portland until midnight to vacate or they would be removed. Some of them left, but a few thousand other people showed up in support of them. For about two hours no much happened as the police waited for people to disperse on their own. Then the police announced that the people needed to move out of the street or they would use force including chemical agents to remove them. That didn't seem to do anything.
Now it is just a face off. One cop got hit by a flying bottle and got hurt. It looks like the riot police are now getting into a shoulder to shoulder perimeter around one park and on one street.
Could get very interesting before the night is over.
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