Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building. Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.

the government is gassing our children.

These are some of the people who were tear-gassed yesterday in #Portland Thousands gathered by bike to honor the country we love and a federal government that's been hurting, killing, and disappearing vulnerable people in cities throughout America. Keep recording. Keep biking. Keep hope alive.

A mother and their 15 year old describe getting gassed and seeing young children in pain. #Portland #ICEOut #Pretti

I've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.

There is no place for tear gas (or any indiscriminate chemical weapons) in Portland. I am working on legislation preventing its use, storage, or possession in City limits. This will be a multi-month process, but you can make it go faster by convincing swing-vote Councilors to support it. 1/4

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

Mayor Wilson needs to expedite the rulemaking for our Detention Facility Fee.

To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.

I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.

Just absolutely and completely enraging. I was one of those cyclists. And this could have been my kids.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "Our nation will never accept a federal presence where agents wield deadly force against the very people they are sworn to serve." www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.

To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets.

This is a good point re: Portland today This wasn't on federal land It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here It's assault

If you were tear-gassed at the union march in Portland today If you have evidence or testimony, NLG is asking that you submit it to them [email protected]

Could have been my daughter. We were just a few blocks away having passed through that part of the march minutes earlier. Furious doesn’t even describe it. #FuckICE

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

> dozens of unions show up with their families after hearing rousing militant labor speeches. > the regime gasses their children

Final thoughts on a tale of two protests #Pretti #Portland #ICEOut #Teargas

Shaking with the anger I have with this situation. I was at this protest with my school aged children, my wife, and my retiree mother in law and was only blocks away from this extreme overreaction (to put it mildly). Just truly abhorrent behavior by the “authorities.”

Absolutely packed here by the South Waterfront #Portland #AlexPretti

Heck yeah, Portland shows up. #AbolishICE

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The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

"Pardon me, I will now respectfully kidnap your five year old. Please forgive the intrusion and have a blessed day."

We stand with Ilhan Omar.

Just a truly disgusting human being, he is.

And when is his trial date?

Aaron's summary quote in the text misses a pretty important bit: Bovino says that if you "delay" or "obstruct" law enforcement activities you're liable to get shot.

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

I do not just throw out praise for Senate Dem leadership, but this is good. It’s what we need now - Dems using their leverage where they’ve got it and refusing to budge. Make GOP own this lawless goon squad. No Dem votes for it. Support Dems who are fighting back now regardless of past beefs.

America update: hours after federal agents executed a Veterans Affairs nurse on camera, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon watched a film about the president's wife at the White House.

Fucking hell. They riddled him with bullets and then instead of helping the man they stood there counting the bullet wounds.

Heartbroken. Help the Pretti family tell the truth about Alex. “The sickening lies told by the administration about our son are reprehensible and disgusting.” Help Alex’s family as they grieve. Share this.

If Abolish ICE gives you the vapors, just call it the Bill Kristol doctrine. Sounds moderate to me!

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Another hero.

The final act of Alex Pretti’s life was to try and help a woman being physically assaulted by an ICE agent.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

These monsters are sick.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.