News about protests, Portland

I support the right to freedom of expression, but criminal destruction, intimidation, and violence are not free speech. Thank you @PortlandPolice for your methodical and professional efforts to address the criminal behavior that has tainted otherwise peaceful gatherings. pic.twitter.com/CXgXeYrp4L

Dispatch from the hours leading up to this morning's police sweep of Portland State University's protest: www.opb.org/article/2024/05/02/portland-state-sweep-sense-worry/

On the scene at Portland State for @portlandmercury—where police have been making loudspeaker announcements telling the activists occupying the PSU library to leave. Police aren’t letting press close so if someone could let me into Fariborz Maseeh Hall I’d be chuffed. pic.twitter.com/SKtSx2QJKu

BREAKING… a large @PortlandPolice presence has arrived outside the @Portland_State library where protesters have been barricaded inside for several days. Loudspeakers are broadcasting messages for people to leave. Stay with @KATUNews for details #LiveOnK2 pic.twitter.com/s79IxA0MKz