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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Occupy Man With Gun Arrested Near Occupy Portland

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:51 PM

This just in from the police:

This afternoon, Wednesday October 19, 2011, at 3:39 p.m., Portland Police officers responded to the report of a man arguing with people at Southwest 4th and Salmon Street, next to the Lownsdale Park encampment of Occupy Portland. Officers arrived in the area and learned that the man displayed a handgun and walked towards 3rd and Salmon. Officers located the man at 3rd and Salmon and he was taken into custody. A firearm has been recovered.

It's unclear whether he was involved in Occupy Portland or was some sort of raving anti-Occupy person, but either way it's scary to have someone waving a gun near a busy protest.

Update 5:21pm—Okay, KGW posted a video of the fight, but I just watched it twice and still have no idea what's going on. It's definitely a shouting match between a black guy in a sweatshirt and a group of young Occupy folks wearing bandanas over their faces (plus the requisite "guy waving peace signs") but how the fight started or what it's about it unclear.


 

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1
It's not a protest
Posted by D on October 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM · Report
2
How did the state of Minnesota get to Portland?
Posted by Chuck Garabedian on October 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM · Report
3
In actual constructive comments, KGW has video of the fight pre-pistol:

http://www.kgw.com/video?id=132205753&sec=…

Ditch the facemasks already kids.
Posted by Chuck Garabedian on October 19, 2011 at 5:11 PM · Report
4
This probably has nothing to do with it, but I saw at least 25 cops, on motorcycles and in marked and unmarked cars and vans, heading down NE Vancouver around 3:15. Anybody know what that was about?
Posted by Tommy on October 19, 2011 at 5:47 PM · Report
5
The world is going crazy, I swear. What were all those cops doing, anyway?
Posted by jfields03 on October 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM · Report
6
what is it exactly, then? It's crazy, I tell ya..J.
Posted by jfields03 on October 19, 2011 at 6:01 PM · Report
7
Time to kick them out.
Seriously.
Posted by frankieb on October 19, 2011 at 6:19 PM · Report
8
I threw a freak show and a protest broke out
Posted by Blabby on October 19, 2011 at 8:09 PM · Report
9
99% of the whites trying to keep the black man from speaking his mind. Looks like a KKK rally.
Posted by Andy from Beaverton on October 19, 2011 at 8:14 PM · Report
10
Andy, you sound like Michelle Malkin decrying the racial mix of the protesters to her 99% white audience. Like the KKK, Western Abolition was a movement of white people, too.
Posted by smapdi on October 19, 2011 at 9:39 PM · Report
11
It's kind of embarrassing watching people trying to resolve a conflict by talking AT each other...
Posted by El Stunto on October 19, 2011 at 10:41 PM · Report
12
Tommy, that was Condoleeza Rice speaking at the Convention Center.
Posted by Broseph Goebbels on October 20, 2011 at 1:02 AM · Report
13
Sarah: What was the purpose of specifying the guy's skin color?
Posted by Killer Dave on October 20, 2011 at 1:20 AM · Report
14
smapdi, I saw more minorities at the tea party in Poorland.
Posted by Andy from Beaverton on October 20, 2011 at 9:15 AM · Report
15
@Killer Dave - I mentioned his skin color to note who he was in the video as the most direct way to differentiate one person in a sweatshirt yelling from another person in a sweatshirt yelling.
Posted by s.mirk on October 20, 2011 at 9:55 AM · Report
16
Why a black man gotta shine your shoes?
Posted by Joe Joe on October 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM · Report
17
The dude should have just used down twinkles instead of flashing his piece.
Posted by The Guilty Carnivore on October 20, 2011 at 11:55 AM · Report
18
Hey Occupy folks, nobody but you Alinskyites understands the twinkly jazz hands thing or whatever it is. Waving your hands in a non-Occupier's face doesn't seem to be a very fruitful way of communicating.

Also, raaaaacism!
Posted by John Skookum on October 21, 2011 at 3:59 PM · Report

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