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Interesting that @ChiefCLovell didn’t care about us journalists being assaulted so consistently by his out of control police force this summer that @PortlandPolice were responsible for more attacks on the press than DC, NYC, LA, Seattle, Detroit and Louisville COMBINED. https://twitter.com/chiefclovell/status/1336715724228739073
Gaze upon the above and consider there are approx 60k combined police officers in DC, NYC, LA, Seattle, Detroit and Louisville. Comparatively, there are approx 900 members of the @PortlandPolice. @ChiefCLovell should keep quiet about us journalists and get his damn house in order
I messed up the thread. I'm quite perturbed and not tweeting well.
Antifascists didn't shoot me for no reason while I was standing by myself off to the side observing, @ChiefCLovell, your police did. (This injury resulted in my third trip to seek professional medical care of the summer and radicalized my doctor, who showed up to protest later.)
The deep and very real concern @ChiefCLovell's team has for the press was also readily apparent on the June evening when TV cameras beamed my cheapshot assault by PPB—with mace directly into my face as I walked away—into living rooms around the region: https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2020/06/07/portland-reporter-pens-first-person-account-of-being-pepper-sprayed-while-filming-an-arrest/
On the very same night I was assaulted on live TV, @IwriteOK and @TheRealCoryElia were also attacked. (Shoutout to @uspresstracker for their amazing work trying to keep us safe.) https://twitter.com/uspresstracker/status/1331705718307753987?s=20
