watch at 12:01am sunday morning.. Portland police have been orderer to clear out several hundred protestors camped in 2 city parks for like 2 months

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Home : News : Local Coverage Live Video: Portland police set to clear Occupy Portland camp Live Video: Portland police set to clear Occupy Portland camp Breaking News: Midnight deadline nears for Occupy Portland camp Live Video: Portland police set to clear Occupy Portland camp Portland police concerned about violence in gear up to Occupy encampment deadline
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Police say anywhere from 100 to 300 people from other West Coast cities may be coming to Portland to help Occupy protesters engage in a resistance. Nov. 11, 2011. (Justin Beach, KOIN Local 6) Related Links
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Police say they are preparing for the worst as they set to clear out two downtown parks where Occupy Portland protesters have been encamped for about five weeks.

The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) stated in a press release Friday that it has information that anywhere from 100 to 300 people from cities including Oakland, Seattle and San Francisco may be coming to Portland to help Occupy protesters engage in a resistance at the camp.

According to PPB, a hole was being dug in the ground in one of the parks, with wood being used to reinforce the area around it. Police say there were reports that nails were being hammered into the wood to be used as weapons, “and that generally there are people in the camps preparing for a confrontation with police.”

Lieutenant Robert King told KOIN Friday afternoon that a protester approached officers and handed them a rock.

“There are some people that have these items in the park,” Lt. King said the man told officers. “And he believed that it was their intention to use them against police should we come into the park to make arrests.”

In a tweet, Portland Mayor Sam Adams described it as a “stockpile of rocks.”

Officers also reported wooden pallets being carried into the encampment, allegedly being used to make shields, the press release said.

On Thursday, Mayor Adams and Portland Chief of Police Mike Reese announced that the Occupy Portland camp at Chapman and Lownsdale squares between 3rd and 4th avenues would be closed beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.

Lt. King informed KOIN that Assistant Chief Larry O'Dea has ordered that all leave for officers has been canceled, all police officers will be working 12-hour shifts and there will be no days off.

Meanwhile, according to another tweet from Mayor Adams, a person who overdosed on heroin in the camp sometime after 4 p.m. Friday “was brought back to life and transported to a hospital.”

“I think Occupy Portland, by and large, has been a very peaceful event. A lot of people that are here are peaceful. I think there are people that are in the camps though that are concerned about people that have another agenda or who may want to hijack this event for some other purpose,” Lt. King said.

Meanwhile, a letter penned by local unions and community advocacy groups Friday urged the city not to shut down Occupy Portland. It stated:

“We urge the City to reconsider plans to forcibly remove demonstrators from Lownsdale and Chapman Squares, and to instead work with Occupy Portland to address whatever legitimate concerns exist regarding health and public safety.“

The letter was signed by UNITE HERE Local 9, Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers, Alliance for Democracy, Real Wealth of Portland, Jobs with Justice and the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign.

Mayor Adams appeared on Friday's edition of PBS NewsHour to debate Jim Oliver, a representative of Occupy Portland:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mood is tense at the Occupy Portland encampment where protesters are facing a midnight deadline to disperse.

Police say up to 200 protesters remained by around 9 p.m. Saturday, while another 400 supporters have gathered nearby.

Many of the protesters' tents have been removed but a sizeable number are still up.

Shortly before 9 p.m., an attorney advised those who might get arrested about what their rights are.

Dozens of occupy protesters from cities such as Seattle and Salem, Ore., say they've come to Portland to show solidarity.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press

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apperently the police are not arresting people

its good.. the city has backed off saying " thier to big to jail"

over 10,000 people around Portlands parks

the Portland police are on Horses with riot gear but still not doing much

6:45 a.m.: The crowd's dispersing. Lownsdale Square is all but empty except for chest-high mounds of debris. Chapman Square is still packed with people and tents. 

6:42 a.m.: Madison Dines, 25, a Portland State University engineering student, says this morning's movement was made up of dedicated Occupy Portland protesters. Not drug addicts or hangers-on. 

"This has regalvanized our movement," he says.

He also says members of the protest pushed out the man who threw the projectile from the crowd so police could arrest him. They don't want to be associated with violence, he says.
 
"Of course we pushed that person out there. We don't want to antagonize police."

He says the movement's focus has been on keeping the parks "We won," Dines said. "We were evicted and now we're staying."

6:41 a.m.: Mayor Sam Adams tweets: "Big thanks to the long work hours put in by many @ PortlandPolice officers tonight."

6:38 a.m.: Police Chief Mike Reese calls his officers "incredibly professional and restrained."

Reese says he's going home to get sleep and anticipates more people will move their tents out of the camp. "We're going to be patient."

He's "very,very tired." "We're not going to talk about tactical plan," he says. Parks staff will help clean up today.

6:33 a.m. "It was incredible," says David Osborn. "We only ever wanted the park and given the opportunity, we've stepped back into the park. It shows again the power of unifying for the change we want to see in society." Everyone is back to the occupation.

6:32 a.m.:  Police Chief Mike Reese, wearing his helmet, confers with his command staff at Southwest Third Avenue and Main Street.

Assistant Chief Larry O’Dea is conferring directly with an Occupy liaison and asked him to have the barricades removed from Third Avenue and Main so the street could be reopened. In return, says Micaiah Dutt, who described himself as a police liaison, Occupy would be allowed to keep the parks.
 
“The people came out in force today and the government answers to the people,”he says.

Protesters then removed the wooden pallets, table tops, emergency cones and other items blocking the street.

Dutt says the group plans to return to the encampment today.

6:23 a.m.: All streets are reopened. The crowd is consolidated to sidewalks and Chapman Square.

6:23 a.m.:  Police were still blocking Southwest Madison Street, but just turned and left. The crowd is cheering, people are dancing. The police are off the roadway.

6:19 a.m.: Officers at Southwest Third Avenue and Madison Street are thinning out, with some officers returning to the Justice Center. There's still a sizable police presence. 

The crowd wants to engage the police. A guy on the microphone says: "Attention Police Bureau please clear the corner of Third and Madison, people need to go to work. There's nothing to see here." The protesters laughed.

6:15 a.m.: "This is what a victory looks like," protesters chant.

6:11 a.m. : Cars moving again on Southwest Third Avenue. Southwest Madison is still closed. Bicyclists are still circling.

6:05 a.m.:  Within a few minutes, the crowd that had blocked the intersection of Southwest Third Avenue and Madison Street for several hours has cleared the street and moved back into Lownsdale and Chapman squares.
 
As protestors moved back, dozens of them also recorded the event on their cell phones.

6:02 a.m.: After more warnings from police to leave the streets, protesters chant, "Take the park," as many retreat.

6 a.m. Lt. Robert King -- "I think we're hoping protesters will tire and go home" and police can restore flow of traffic.

6 a.m.: Police are moving the crowd off the intersection at Southwest Third Avenue and Madison Street. They're saying: "Please move into Chapman Square." "Clear the street." "Appreciate your cooperation."
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Occupy Portland: What's next for protesters after ejection from downtown parks?
The Oregonian
Posted: 11/13/2011 4:55 PM
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Occupy Portland protesters have been pushed out of Lownsdale and Chapman squares in Downtown Portland. A smaller group has been removed from nearby Terry Schrunk Plaza.

And after a day of tangling -- mostly peacefully -- with police, a small, but vocal group, was looking for a new home.

As night fell, organizers were gathered along Southwest Main Street, debating about where -- and even whether -- the Occupy Portland movement should next call home. Among the options getting the most attention was Portland State University, Pioneer Courthouse Square and Washington High School.

They were preparing for a future, they could hardly foresee 12 hours earlier, when protesters thought they had defeated police at their own game and would be allowed to stay in the two Downtown Portland parks.

Portland Police officers and Portland Parks and Recreation crews descended on the Occupy Portland camps at Lownsdale and Chapman squares at about 9 a.m. Sunday.

They removed vacant tents, tarps and other gear. Several campers, many of whom had just crept off to sleep a couple hours earlier, packed up their belongings amid complaints that police ambushed them.

Just hours earlier, many of the protesters celebrated, believing the Portland police were going to allow them to remain in the parks. They had been there since Oct. 6, following a march through Portland.

The protest is part of the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement aimed at raising awareness about economic disparities and the distribution of wealth in the United State. Leaders in several other cities nationwide pressed for protesters to abandon their occupations during the weekend. Adams said in setting the deadline last week that conditions in the camp had deteriorated and he wanted to avoid deaths that have occurred in other camps around the country.

The pre-dawn confrontation that Occupy Portland protesters were preparing for this weekend unfolded instead in daylight hours Sunday, after throngs of supporters had gone home to sleep and bleary-eyed campers were caught unaware.

But even as Portland Police successfully cleared the two downtown parks, the evictions sparked an hours-long standoff as protesters spilled into the streets. And the cooperative, communicative spirit that marked much of city leaders' dealings with the movement appeared to crack as police shoved campers out of the parks, some campers called officers "Nazis" and other protesters proposed occupying other parks.

"We will not back down, even in the face of force by the Portland Police department," said Max Brewer, a 22-year-old protester. "We are standing here to exercise our First Amendment right to peacefully assemble. ... It's a statement just by standing here."

 

Portland police arrested more than 50 people Sunday morning while clearing Occupy Portland protesters out of two parks in downtown Portland.

Officers with the Portland Police Bureau began clearing Chapman and Lownsdale Square parks Sunday morning and were able to remove the structures and protesters inside the park without the use of pepper spray or other chemicals.

Police said no officers or people arrested were injured during the park clearance, but protesters said they heard scattered reports of injuries.

3 men claiming to be Occupy Portland protesters arrested in Marion County for possession of explosives
Molly Hottle, The Oregonian
Posted: 11/13/2011 6:33 PM
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Marion County authorities arrested three men, who claimed to be Occupy Portland protesters, during a traffic stop after officers found fireworks and marijuana inside.

A Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy at 8:40 a.m. Sunday stopped a gray Subaru Outback that was traveling southbound on Interstate 5, near milepost 245, after he recorded it traveling at 81 mph.

When the deputy made contact with the driver, William Maxwell Patterson, 21, he reportedly smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car. When he searched the car, the deputy found a bag of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Inside the car was also Emery Nicholas Luff, 21, and Zachary Salzwedel-Kemp, 20, and all three are from Klamath Falls.

Inside the car, the deputy also found a number of firecrackers and two commercially made mortars inside glass canning jars, designed to be fired into the area during professional pyrotechnic displays. One was found in the floorboard of the vehicle, and the other was allegedly in Luff's jacket.


 
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The deputy also found two gas masks, protective eye goggles and a safety helmet. All three men told the deputy that they had spent the night at the Occupy Portland demonstration, and they brought the mortars and safety equipment to the demonstration in preparation of the expected confrontation between police and protesters Sunday morning.

The three had been at the demonstration during the confrontation Sunday morning and had left about an hour before the vehicle was stopped. During that confrontation, a police officer was injured by a firework, but the three men denied being involved in the incident.

When asked about the explosives, the three men told authorities that they knew the canning jar would explode, causing glass shrapnel to fly and possibly cause injury. 

All three men were arrested and booked at the Marion County jail. Patterson is charged with unlawful possession of fireworks and possession of a controlled substance. He was released from jail.

Luff is charged with unlawful possession of destructive device, unlawful manufacture of destructive device and unlawful possession of fireworks. He remains in jail and is expected in court at 3 p.m. Monday.

Salzwedel-Kemp is charged with unlawful possession of fireworks and possession of a controlled substance. He was cited and released from jail. 
 
Portland Police Bureau officers were advised about the discovery of the mortars and fireworks and the subsequent arrests.

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Video of portland police trying to push protesters.

This is one of the gentlest police actions I've seen.

Its good to see that at least some cities know how to treat citizens.