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Portland, Public Transportation Follies

Get those animals off those horses

03.30.10 | Comment?

I was at the bus stop on the northeast corner of the Bank of America building during this, but didn’t see this:

The protest left some damage in its wake, police said, with windows broken at the Bank of America building on Southwest Fifth Avenue.

I was at Fifth and Salmon; maybe the windows were further up Fifth, but I didn’t hear glass breaking.  I will go and check it out.

If I’d had the presence of mind, I would have taken a picture of the moment when the anarchists tried to break away from their police escort, but as they swirled around me and the others at the bus stop, they were stopped in their tracks by the wall of mounted police on Salmon St.  It was quite a tableau, with the black flags on one side, mounted cops on the other, cops on foot blocking off the street to the north.  That’s when I moved into the bus shelter, in case there was a charge by either side.  The situation was fluid, in respect both to how quickly the scene changed and the manner in which the crowd changed direction and flowed east, channeled in that direction by the pressure of the cops.  Then I stood for awhile, waiting for my bus home, but the cops still had Salmon blocked off to the west.  I used my PDXBus app to figure out where they had re-routed it to and set off to meet it.  I saw no more, heard no more, of the protest.

 

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