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I was thinking that's probably where the kidnapping charge came from and I hope we're right. I want to see more of that. It's essentially that, or false imprisonment, holding people against their will under threat of harm and in duress.The siege being cancelled torainsafety brings up something that has been rattling around in my brain for a couple months now as PDX continued to riot every damn night:
what happens in Portland when the weather returns to year-round mean of "rain"?
I have to wonder how many people will still be "doing it every night" when it involves being wet and cold (even with proper raingear) while attempting to do their thing. They have the excuse of air quality right now (though these fuckers all have respirators rated to handle that level of bad air without issue so that's a kind of weasel-y reason to stop imo) but will they resume once things stop being on fire?
Given the way things are going I'm going to guess they will transition from "not going out because muh smoke", to quietly not going out because of rain and cold (which is soon upon us up here). Chances are the smoke will largely end once the rain begins so there probably won't be a bunch of great weather in between conducive to late night shenanigans to get them "doing this every night" again, which means this will likely pass unnoticed.
Maybe I'm being optimistic but if some light rain is all it took to put the "siege" to bed I can't see Portland being sufficiently determined to be out during the late fall and winter months at least not consistently.
"Kidnapping"...I wonder if they found enough evidence of video of protesters detaining cars to bring that one, and if so, about goddamn time.
I've been thinking about the rain situation, as a local. During Occupy, they kept it up for a bit even though it was rainy season, though it created a truly disgusting health hazard, with mud and shit mingling and lots of fecal borne illnesses running through their encampment along with the rape and drugs. But even so, the people out in it most of the time were folks who would sleep outdoors anyways, hobos and street kids, and the NGO tents were probably an improvement from their usual accommodations.
The one time it rained this summer the numbers were diminished and they seriously struggled to get a fire lighted in a dumpster even though it was only drizzling. A lot of these kids are not natives and are not as accustomed to the cold drizzle in the first place, they are from warmer places and whine constantly about their "SAD" once the pumpkin spice novelty has worn off around about November 10th. Plus flu season will pick up and they will probably have to comply with a new wave of democratic hysteria about covid. They will have to change strategies if nothing else.
OTOH in short bursts they can still manage to be serious menaces in bad weather. They raised hell after the last presidential election and even if it's pouring and freezing I expect a convulsion of serious violence after this one.
EDIT: looked up occupy and it ran October 6-December 12 2011. And this made me so damn nostalgic:
"A protest in the Pearl District began the afternoon of October 29, following a march that ended in Jamison Square.[3] Mayor Sam Adams had prohibited the expansion of the protest into city parks beyond Chapman and Lownsdale squares; when protesters defied him, 27 of them were arrested.[3] Protestors said that the residents of the Pearl District were members of the wealthy demographic they were protesting."
Imagine a mayor just saying "no" and cuffing almost 30 brats in one day!
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