Uprising: A Guide From Portland Trailer

On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, sparking an unprecedented series of nationwide protests against police brutality. At first, the protests in Portland were like the protests everywhere else. But then they just kept going, and going, for more than a hundred consecutive nights of tear gas, rubber bullets and beatings. Federal agents with chemical weapons, right wing vigilantes with homemade explosives and the Portland Police Bureau failed to stop Portland's Black Lives Matter movement. You've seen pieces of this story on the news. Now you can hear the truth, in the words of the people who were there. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This feels like the energy for this rebellion is coming
from some some unknown place, like like two I said,
It's felt almost supernatural because it was pushing people on
their human limen. We're in the streets because of Black

(00:29):
Lives Matter, because the police killed Brianna Taylor and George Floyd,
and they covered up the killing of a mad are
very George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin,
sparking an unprecedented series of nationwide protests against police brutality.
At first, the protests in Portland were like the protests

(00:51):
everywhere else. But then they just kept going and going.
For more than a hundred consecutive nights of tear gas,
rubber bullets, and beatings. Militarized federal police came in with
experimental chemical weapons right when vigilante started showing up, shooting
into crowds and throwing homemade explosives at activists. Through all this,

(01:14):
Portland's Black Lives Matter movement persevered, and their successes and
mistakes and their agonies and survival, the activists sup Portland
are a lesson for the rest of the nation. Now
you can hear the real story in the words of
the people who were there. You know, they're they're pushing,
they're shoving. I'm I'm yelling and screaming the whole time,

(01:36):
like waving my press badge on my cane around saying
I'm blind. So we were following the groans of people,
you know, coughing and and being things with tear gas,
and the cops just rolled up with like four cars
and eight officers hopped out and I got snatched up
and it's got snatched up by I got grabbed by
the hair, got young to the ground. A failure to

(02:01):
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