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| Subject: Corrupt Portland poLICE clash with protesters over new contract for officers Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:47 am | |
| PORTLAND, Ore. – Police used pepper spray and arrested 10 people as demonstrators stormed City Hall in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday trying to stop the City Council from voting on a new police contract that includes more pay for officers and raised questions about the future use of body cameras.
Police said Wednesday evening they had arrested nine people but later revised that number to 10.
The demonstration forced Mayor Charlie Hales to stop the meeting, but city commissioners soon reconvened in a secure, third-floor room to vote while protesters from Black Lives Matter and Don't Shoot Portland were kept below.
Amid chants and shouts from below, the commissioners voted 3-1 in favor of the new contract, setting off another round of protests that briefly blocked public transit in the downtown core.
Protesters threw object at officers both inside and outside City Hall, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement.
Protesters dispersed as darkness fell, but organizers said a demonstration was planned for Friday.
Hales' decision to move the meeting was unprecedented in recent city history, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. The vote was streamed live on the city's home page.
Police eventually forced the protesters out of City Hall and into the streets.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/13/portland-police-clash-with-protesters-over-new-contract-for-officers.html _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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