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David Ramos / Getty News What follows are a few protesting opportunities for tonight (Friday June 12) that we’ve heard about and wanted to share. Know of others in the surrounding area? Email us here! First up, there’s a Black Lives Matter march starting at 2 pm today at King School Park (NE 6th & […]

Portland Bureau of Transportation A Portland City Council vote to pass the city’s annual budget failed Thursday, after Commissioner Chloe Eudaly declined to approve the proposed $5.6 billion package. The vote required unanimous council support. The processes called for some legislative gymnastics to move forward. After seeing that the budget didn’t have Eudaly’s support, Mayor […]

blair Stenvick Update, 12:10 am After our last update, PPB managed to clear the area around the fence without too much use of force. Here’s some video Tuck captured of police pushing protesters out of the area they’d deemed closed: PPB push protesters west, stop at Broadway (border of area that was shut down) pic.twitter.com/3ZSAYLPGj5 […]

Painting “Black Lives Matter” on the street in CHAZ. Rich Smith [The following story is from our sister news org, The Stranger, about CHAZ—the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which is a six block area that was deserted by police after days of rancorous protest. Since then Cap Hill citizens have turned it into a peaceful, […]

“Hands up” protester, Justice Center, June 9 Alex Zielinski FINAL UPDATE 12:40 AM: “The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” Fare the well, sweet Portland Autonomous Zone. The fence, in what was looking briefly like the beginnings of an autonomous zone, is now abanonded. A shorter life than the city hall […]

Wm. Steven Humphrey Update, 12:32 am: The PPB livestream has gone quiet, the few dozen protesters that remain are doing another cycle around the Justice Center before likely breaking up for the evening, and our reporter is on her way home to start celebrating her birthday. For a second night in a row, these demonstrations […]

trimet Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers will likely no longer be a part of a tri-county public transit policing division starting January 1, 2021. The change was announced by Mayor Ted Wheeler at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, as part of a list of police reforms Wheeler and the Portland City Council plan to enact […]

City of Portland Today at 2 pm, Mayor Ted Wheeler is scheduled to participate in a press conference in which he will release a “list of reforms and actions” in regards to the Portland Police Bureau. This is a hotly anticipated topic as cities around the country are wrestling with if and how they should […]

STEVE DYKES/GETTY IMAGES More than a week of protests centered on police violence have left Portland City Council with a full list of substantive police reform demands. These requests have come from grassroots campaigns, political candidates, civil rights organizations, council-appointed police oversight committees, and from sitting city commissioners themselves. Some of these demands require immediate […]

Alex Zielinski Over the past eight days of protests in Portland, city officials have been pressed to clarify their stance on police violence, both against individual people of color and massive crowds of protesters. From Mayor Ted Wheeler, we’ve heard promises to halt the use of “crowd control” agents—like tear gas and military-grade sonic cannons. […]