What Is Going On in Portland?
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, these videos started popping up on Twitter, showing how protesters are being |
| 0:10.4 | policed in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:15.8 | These images stand out because they're just so different from videos of police brutality |
| 0:20.6 | that you might have seen a few weeks back. |
| 0:22.8 | In the first few days, after George Floyd was killed. |
| 0:33.5 | These aren't videos of cops in riot gear, holding a line. |
| 0:38.1 | The law enforcement officers you see, they're almost silent. |
| 0:42.1 | Their faces are completely covered. |
| 0:44.8 | They swoop out of vans towards small groups of pedestrians and seem to pick people to |
| 0:49.8 | entertain at random. |
| 1:01.2 | Jonathan Levinson is a reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting. |
| 1:04.2 | They asked him to walk me through one of these clips. |
| 1:07.7 | It was shot downtown. |
| 1:09.2 | Looks like it could be any urban street corner. |
| 1:12.6 | Until the guys in Desert Camo roll up. |
| 1:18.5 | The TV and is parked across the street. |
| 1:20.8 | Two officers, camouflage, walk up, grab a guy, and they're walking them back to the |
| 1:27.0 | minute and put them in and drive off. |
| 1:28.0 | While they're doing that, the person filming is saying, who are you? |
| 1:30.8 | Identify yourself? |
| 1:31.8 | The guy who they're grabbing is saying, I haven't done anything wrong. |
| 1:34.6 | What's your name? |
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