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among other things, i'm always just generally suspicious of "protesters" who wear giant SECURITY signs on their tac vests in small, organized teams https://twitter.com/bmcgrub/status/1295556379193700352
Evans is soft pedaling it here. "the people who habitually hang out by the JC" here means the weird gang that pretends to be protesters, continuously assaults people to this day, and took over riot ribs at gunpoint https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1295499942836858880
looks like the narrative is slowly getting around. not quite whisper networks, but given that it's just folks with small accounts saying it (my loud mouthed self excluded, obviously), the effect is the same https://twitter.com/1111Starchild/status/1295575099286802434
gonna just start collecting these as i find them, i guess https://twitter.com/heezy/status/1295546125131247616
this is actually getting rather specific. good https://twitter.com/heezy/status/1295554030689607680
this matches my own understanding of the situation on the ground as well https://twitter.com/heezy/status/1295554032732315648
also accurate, to my knowledge https://twitter.com/CoreyBorealis/status/1295564290049445893
i think, obviously, police like the chaos the gang is causing, the endless stream of bad press that they then claim is the result of the protests themselves
so they're not doing anything about it either. but to be clear, neither are the protesters.
so they're not doing anything about it either. but to be clear, neither are the protesters.
there are already dozens, approaching hundreds, of these stories, spread out all over the internet and hard to collate because of the unprecedented and complicated social nature of the situation on site https://twitter.com/thephoton_thief/status/1295528865876434944
unconfirmed but holy shit this is spicy https://twitter.com/alltherum/status/1295520033511223296
to be clear, the salient point here is that it is now a matter of public record that the group, whatever you want to call it, is coherent enough to be recognizable to different outfits of protesters, and most importantly - THE LEADERSHIP IS A KNOWN QUANTITY, to specific people
so we are now talking about a distinct organisation, with recognizable membership and roles here, which can be identified in detail, pinned down, and disrupted the same as any other
amorphous talk of "troublesome teens in a park" is over, point anyone pushing that to this thread
amorphous talk of "troublesome teens in a park" is over, point anyone pushing that to this thread
anyway, sauce on that https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/08/17/28744136/its-a-stain-on-the-movement-portland-protest-organizers-condemn-truck-driver-assault
[tosses another one on the pile]
this one came in from the DMs just now https://twitter.com/SnackVanTM/status/1293829756886986754
this one came in from the DMs just now https://twitter.com/SnackVanTM/status/1293829756886986754
at a certain point we have to grapple with the responsibility shared by those who donated to riot ribs and the riot ribs creator and staff themselves, sorry folks, for fostering an environment that directly led to the situation in the first place: the 300k http://archive.is/pi0BV
