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Mayor of #PortlandOregon, demands #ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters
Updated 7:00 PM EST, February 1, 2026
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Comments 49PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — "The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched #TearGas at a crowd of demonstrators — including young children — outside an #ICE facility during a weekend protest that he characterized as peaceful.
"Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, #PepperBalls and #RubberBullets as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday. Erin Hoover Barnett, a former #OregonLive reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards (90 meters) from the building when 'what looked like two guys with rocket launchers' started dousing the crowd with gas.
" 'To be among parents frantically trying to tend to little children in strollers, people using motorized carts trying to navigate as the rest of us staggered in retreat, unsure of how to get to safety, was terrifying,' Barnett wrote in an email to OregonLive."
#USPol #Oregon #PortlandOR #ICEOut #AbolishICE #DefundICE #ICEOutForGood
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"In a statement, the LAPD acknowledged that the department is “currently outside the 90-day public posting requirement,” saying the delay “stems from the extraordinary volume and complexity of incidents that occurred during that period.” #teargas #rubberbullets https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/lapd-report-less-lethal-weapons
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"In a statement, the LAPD acknowledged that the department is “currently outside the 90-day public posting requirement,” saying the delay “stems from the extraordinary volume and complexity of incidents that occurred during that period.” #teargas #rubberbullets https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/lapd-report-less-lethal-weapons
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Trump’s #Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” #Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming #Protesters
Since President Donald #Trump ’s admin launched high-intensity immigration sweeps this year, federal agents have routinely countered protestors using crowd control weapons — #RubberBullets , flash-bang grenades, #TearGas and #PepperBalls. They’ve fired on American #citizens and noncitizens alike in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
#ice #cbphttps://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons
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What kinds of less-lethal weapons have #ICE agents been using in the #Chicago area?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/immigration/2025/ice-less-lethal-weapons-explainer-tear-gas/#TearGas, #RubberBullets and #PepperBalls have played a key role in agents’ attempts to quell protests — but what are they, and what can they do?
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Another Photographer Struck by Rubber Bullets During LA Protests, This Time in the Eye https://petapixel.com/2025/06/18/another-photographer-struck-by-rubber-bullets-during-la-protests-this-time-in-the-eye/ #photojournalist #rubberbullets #losangeles #laprotest #protests #News #lapd #Law
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AFP Photographer Shot Twice by Rubber Bullets During LA Protests https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/afp-photographer-shot-twice-by-rubber-bullets-during-la-protests/ #agencefrancepresse #pressphotographer #rubberbullets #losangeles #laprotest #protests #News #lapd #AFP
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#Police deploy #FlashBang #grenades, #RubberBullets on #LA #protesters
Police began #shooting flash-bangs & rubber bullets, then turned to #TearGas, after ordering a crowd to disperse following a demonstration outside the federal bldg late Sat afternoon.
The gathering there was separate from the local #NoKings event held earlier as part of nationwide rallies to push back against #Trump & the policies of his admin on a host of issues.#law #Constitution #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/los-angeles-protesters-police-clash/ -
How to Stay Safe #Protesting #ICE — and What to Expect From #Cops in Your City
Do police in your city use #TearGas or #RubberBullets? Repression tactics from Seattle to Chicago, plus how to prepare.
by Akela Lacy
June 14 2025, 7:00 a.m.Excerpt: “The key really no matter where you are or what you’re doing is situational awareness,” said Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. “When you start to see officers on bikes encircling you, you need to have probably thought of this before, but certainly at that point, look for a place to exit.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/iidZ9#selection-555.9-587.38#Resistance #Resist #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #ResistICE #AuthoritarianRule
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>1 dozen #journalists #injured or roughed up while covering protests against #immigration raids in #LA, leading press #freedom groups to question whether #law enforcement has been deliberately targeting reporters on the story. Journalists have been pelted w #rubberbullets or #pepperspray, including an Australian TV reporter struck while doing a live shot and a New York Post reporter left with a giant welt on his forehead after taking a direct hit. #CNN https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protests-los-angeles-media-4b9b062785bde9428a3155812fd092decrew briefly detained
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@maggiejk Also, let's not forget the slow death of Linda Tirado, a journalist.
One can't help but notice the fascists keep targeting women with their violence...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Tirado
#RubberBullets #LindaTirado #USPOL #Fascism #Misogyny #Patriachy
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2/2 They even target journalists. Peaceful protesting, my ass ...
https://au.news.yahoo.com/unbelievable-video-shows-aussie-reporter-shot-in-the-leg-by-police-during-la-unrest-042055514.html #LosAngeles #ICE #protest #violence #police #teargass #rubberbullets #NationalGuard #Trump #fascism #FuckTrump #impeachTrump
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Photographer and Reporter Shot by Rubber Bullets During LA Protests https://petapixel.com/2025/06/09/photographer-and-reporter-shot-by-rubber-bullets-during-la-protests/ #pressphotographer #nationalguard #rubberbullets #journalism #losangeles #protests #riots #News #lapd
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Video via Reuters
There are more press members than #protesters. The protesters are nowhere near the #NationalGuard physically. Yet #RubberBullets, #TearGas & #FlashBang #grenades.
#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #Proportionality #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #USTroops #immigration
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On Saturday, law enforcement officers used #FlashBang #grenades, #TearGas & #RubberBullets as they clashed with #protesters who came to the area in Paramount, which had been rumored to be the site of an #immigration operation.
There were hundreds of protesters when the #demonstrations peaked during the day, but their numbers dwindled in the evening. Several dozen were still protesting at 6PM.
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo
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#UCLA #Gaza #Protesters Sue #Cops for Shooting Them in the Head With #RubberBullets
Protesters were being attacked by a #ProIsrael mob when cops showed up and fired at them with rubber bullets — whose use is restricted by law.
Akela Lacy
May 5 2025Police conspired to violently attacks anti-genocide protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles last year, according to a suit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court.
At the height of the school’s encampment against Israel’s war on Gaza last spring, one of hundreds across the country, a mob of pro-Israel protesters attacked pro-Palestine protesters for more than four hours. On the night of April 30, 2024, police stood by and watched as counter-protesters aimed and shot fireworks, sprayed chemical agents, harassed, and sexually assaulted pro-Palestine protesters, students and faculty alleged last month in a separate, ongoing lawsuit.
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NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests or Be Barred from Sitting Final Exams
The day after the melee, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, UCLA administrators, and seven different law enforcement agencies laid plans to dismantle the school’s encampment for good.
UCLA invited multiple outside police forces to campus to clear the encampments on May 1. More than 700 police officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol, the University of California Police Department, and private security were on campus the night of the raid.Protesters are now suing the state of California, which oversees California Highway Patrol, and the city of Los Angeles, which oversees the LAPD, for violence against the demonstrations. The police fired more than 50 rounds of rubber bullets at protesters, striking several people in the head; some of the injuries sent demonstrators to the hospital.
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ucla-gaza-protesters-sue-cops-rubber-bullets/Archived version:
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got a message to #Argentina #neoliberal #Milei: to improve the #economy maybe try it with new #innovation new #ideas not the same old #neoliberal #bullshit
he wanted to make #Argentina "great again" with #neoliberal #austerity #MargeretThatcher methods
while #inflation has indeed gone done in #Argentina
https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi 292% to "only" 94%
please search for #Argentina #debt #singer and u will get an idea how #Argentina is financially screwed so badly https://duckduckgo.com/?q=argentina+debt+singer&ia=web
this MUST lead to catastrophe
#pension and #football #fan #clash #protest #riot #police #teargas #rubberbullets
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#Crimethinc: A #Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding #RiotMunitions
And How to Defend against Them
2021-01-04Police fire a wide range of blunt force projectiles from a variety of weapons. Manufacturers and police departments sometimes call these 'Blunt Impact Projectiles' (#BIPs) or 'Kinetic Impact Projectiles' (#KIPs). #RubberBullets are only one of many variants. They vary in size, force, composition, delivery methods, and lethality.
"The sales pitches that manufacturers make to law enforcement agencies emphasize the ability to obtain compliance from subjects via projected force with minimal risk of injury or death. All of the academic studies—not to mention our lived experience—show that neither of these claims is correct: impact munitions regularly #maim and kill #protestors and they rarely succeed at breaking up demonstrations. They’re even less effective at stopping social movements. Often, when one of us loses an eye or suffers a fractured skull, more people come out to the streets.
"Some of the more common impact munitions include baton rounds, large plastic, foam, gel, or even wooden #projectiles that are fired from a multi-launcher or occasionally a shotgun; rubber bullets, #MetalProjectiles coated in rubber or PVC; #BeanBagRounds, woven bags filled with either silica or lead, usually fired from shotguns; #Pepperballs, which are essentially paintballs filled with pepper spray; #FN303 rounds, a combination of pepper-balls and regular impact munitions; rubber balls, which are rubber or plastic or foam pellets packed into grenades to explode like shrapnel or shotgun shot; and, of course, the venerable #GasCanister (bearing chemical agents or smoke), which is not designed to be fired directly at protestors—but regularly is.
"Contrary to popular supposition, most modern impact munitions are designed for 'direct fire' rather than 'skip fire.' Direct fire munitions are for shooting directly at individuals, while skip fire projectiles are designed to be skipped off the ground into the crowd. Tear gas canisters are generally intended for skip firing at close range or firing at a 25-30 degree arc into the air for maximum range; they are not rated for direct fire. Some styles of baton rounds that split into multiple projectiles are designed for skip fire to distribute the projectiles more widely, while others are designed to be fired over the heads of protesters in order to rain chemicals down. Full-size wooden baton rounds and some rubber bullets seem to be designed for skip fire as well, but in general, skip fire is less accurate and less common.
"Baton rounds, stinger grenades, and beanbags hurt. They injure people. Occasionally, they maim or—even more rarely—kill people. Yet of all the tools used by the police, they are some of the least effective at stopping demonstrations. Unlike a cop within mêlée range, a baton round cannot arrest you. Unlike a cloud of gas, it can’t force you to disperse. Ranged impact weapons rely primarily on pain compliance. While this may work on individuals, pain alone usually cannot force a resolute crowd to comply. Standing around getting shot at isn’t always the right move. But the effects of impact munitions can be mitigated by protective equipment including shields, armor, helmets, goggles, barricades, and even umbrellas. Impact weapons rely on fear above all—and through mental preparation and mutual support, we can defend ourselves from fear. We can choose not to comply with fear."
Learn more:
https://crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a-demonstrators-guide-to-understanding-riot-munitions-and-how-to-defend-against-them
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#ArmedPoliceDrones Are Coming
Feb. 15, 2022 by Anthony Accurso (originally published in Reason . com)
"It’s not just hobbyists who are exploiting the near-endless potential of unmanned aerial vehicles ( #UAVs or #drones ). Law enforcement from all over the country—most especially federal agencies—are using, or making plans to use, drones to conduct #surveillance and #subdue suspects.
"Americans first became widely aware of drone use by the government in the form of #PredatorUAVs deployed for intelligence and offensive purposes, almost exclusively in the #MiddleEast against 'terrorists.'
"But drone technology has come a long way in the last two decades, with drones getting smaller and being able to carry more added weight than before.
"These advances have allowed them to become the perfect platform upon which law enforcement builds its surveillance programs. Drones can carry sensors for GPS, radar, lidar, range-finding, magnetic fields, chemical and biological sniffers, and, of course, increasingly high-resolution cameras. Federal agencies often attach cell-site simulators to drones—calling them 'dirtboxes' in this use case—to collect digital and cellular data from all unsuspecting citizens in a particular area, not just suspects.
"Further electronics and software innovations have made these sensors more efficient and capable than ever. #PredatorDrones operated by Customs and Border Protection ( #CBP ) are known to use a system called Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar ( #VADER ). VADER implements synthetic aperture radar, a tech trick that uses an aircraft’s motion to minimize the size of the antenna needed to create a high-res map of an area. By comparing these maps moment-by-moment, it creates a 'real-time ground moving target indicator' through 'detecting Doppler shift that moving objects produce in radar return signals.' Like the apex predator in Jurassic Park, these Predators rely on movement to 'see.'
"A company called #PersistentSurveillanceSystems has been operating a similar program, under contract by the #Baltimore Police Department ('BPD'), that uses software to construct a real-time image from photos captured by aircraft-mounted cameras. BPD can then track the (outdoor) movement of every pedestrian or vehicle in a 32-square-mile area. This is ostensibly to track fleeing criminals or generate leads after a crime has occurred.
"While only sensors have been attached to domestic drones so far, the addition of weapons systems appears to be coming. In 2015, #NorthDakota passed a law allowing police to equip drones with #TearGas and #RubberBullets. Also, documents uncovered by the #ElectronicFrontierFoundation show the CBP has suggested adding 'non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize' people to their drones.
"Laws have always lagged behind the constant march of technology, but the rapid development of drones and drone-mounted surveillance systems is set to pilot America into an omnipresent surveillance state where any and all outdoor activity—and maybe indoor ones if we get wall or roof penetrating sensors—is persistently monitored by police."
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2022/feb/15/armed-police-drones-are-coming/
#PredatorClassDrone #ArmedDrones #USPol #PoliceDrones
#DroneWeaponization
#MilitaryState #ACAB #USPol #GlobalPol #Orwell #NineteenEightyFour
#SilencingDissent #Autocracy #Fascism #surveillance #SurveillanceState #PoliceState #WeaponizedDrones -
#Arizona's Universities are Instruments of War
The United States provides more than 70% of the funds and weapons used for #WarCrimes and #genocide in #Palestine. Arizona universities are a backbone of the war industry.
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 31, 2024
TUCSON, Arizona -- "When Arizona's largest universities slammed down on Palestine supporters, it was obvious they were hiding something. What they were hiding was the fact that they are thriving on war dollars.
"The most obvious is Raytheon Missiles located at the #UniversityOfArizona's Tech Park in Tucson. The less obvious are the millions in grants and contracts that both the University of Arizona and #ArizonaStateUniversity receive for technology, including cyber technology, artificial intelligence and robotics.
"While slamming down on #Palestinian support -- and shooting them with #RubberBullets in #Tucson and denying some graduation at #ASU in the #PhoenixValley -- both universities were heading up a national coalition of U.S. universities to support Israel, after the genocide was underway.
"Arizona State University in #Tempe, in the Phoenix Valley, has gone to the extreme to silence voices in support of Palestine. Besides forbidding pro-Palestine rallies, its harsh crackdown on encampments has resulted in 62 Palestine supporters now facing charges."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/arizonas-universities-are-instruments.html#CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #WarProfiteers #WarIsBigBusiness #Raytheon #RaytheonKills #RTX #BloodMoney #Divest #WeaponsManufacturers #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraelWarCrimes #ReaderSupportedNews #SilencingDissent #Genocide
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10 Years After Ferguson, Do #Black Lives Still Matter?
One protester who dodged #rubberbullets and #teargas on the streets says the #uprising changed the dynamic around questionable #policeshootings of #Blackpeople. But more work lies ahead.https://wordinblack.com/2024/08/10-years-after-ferguson-do-black-lives-still-matter/
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I saw smoke from footage of #HamiltonHall. This explains what was going on... The police were using FLASH GRENADES on the protestors!
From '#FlashBangs' To '#RubberBullets': The Very Real Risks of '#RiotControl Agents'
June 6, 202010:29 AM ET
By Will Stone, Carrie Feibel"How dangerous are "flash-bang" #grenades?
Flash bangs are explosives that are intended to stun and disorient people. "All you are trying to do is make a loud noise and a bright light," says Mesloh, who compares the explosion to that of an M-80 firecracker. Flash bangs are designed to temporarily blind or deafen people. But in rare circumstances, they can cause serious injuries (like blowing off fingers or hands) or even death. That may happen when the police officers make an error throwing the devices, and injure themselves. You are also at risk if a flash-grenade explodes near glass or gravel, creating a dangerous spray of tiny sharp fragments. Also, flash bangs can start fires."
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Its going to come to no surprise that in #London over the last six years the only events where the Metropolitan #Police sought (and gained) clearance for the (potential) use of baton rounds on crowds were those events which were 'black-led'.
Now to be fair they have not actually been used, but the policing of black-led events included the deployment of what are sometimes called #rubberbullets;
Its hard to see how this isn't further proof of institutional #racism (?)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/06/met-police-baton-rounds-black-led-events-foi-reveals -
#AmnestyInternational issues 25 rules to protect protesters from misuse of #RubberBullets
Amnesty International has devised 25 rules to try and stop #HumanRights abuses being perpetrated through the improper use of rubber bullets and other projectiles by police and security forces, the organization said today after releasing a report on the rising number of protesters being permanently injured or killed by the misuse of such weapons.
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#Police use of #rubberBullets and other #projectiles against #peaceful #protesters has #increased #worldwide , leading to many #injuries and even #death , #AmnestyInternational said on Tuesday.
The group has called for tighter #international #regulation of the trade and use of such equipment, often known as "#lessLethal " #weapons .
https://www.dw.com/en/amnesty-says-police-use-of-rubber-bullets-on-the-rise/a-64976310
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📢Staff at @Omega_RF
are experts in the manufacture, trade, & use of a huge range of #LawEnforcement weapons & equipment, from #TearGas & batons to handcuffs & #RubberBullets.
🖥️We've gathered together some of this expertise here, but you can also get in touch with your questions:
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CW: Palestine need our attention
If an oppessor of 75 years just waltzed into your #Christmas Eve celebration and started assaulting patrons, shooting #stunGrenades and #rubberBullets; again after 75 years of oppression and #landTheft, would you just roll over starfish-style?
Oh and #Google are now labelling commentators criminals. Sounds like the #MinistryOfTruth and #theAlgorithms have it all worked out.
#genocide #naziIsrael #botcottIsrael #deleteGoogle #boycottGoogle #botcottUSA #boycottUSD