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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"8i41k\">Jonathan House, a photo editor and photographer for Pamplin Media Group and the Portland Tribune, said he was shot with an impact munition while covering protests in Portland, Oregon on July 21, 2020. Multiple other journalists also reported being <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/physical-attack/?assailant=LAW_ENFORCEMENT&categories=10&city=Portland&date_lower=2020-07-21&date_upper=2020-07-21&state=41&was_journalist_targeted=JUST_TRUE\">targeted with crowd-control munitions</a> that day.</p><p data-block-key=\"ihf1g\">House was covering one of the many protests that broke out in response to police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the May 25 death of George Floyd. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"enti6\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"8xvzn\">Demonstrations that began the night of July 20 stretched into the early hours of the next day, according to the <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/portland-protests-continue-for-54th-night-amid-controversy-surrounding-federal-officers-presence.html\">Oregonian</a>, as the “Wall of Moms” and other protesters confronted federal officers stationed at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse and the Multnomah County Justice Center downtown.</p><p data-block-key=\"irdai\">House was filming from across the street from the courthouse and Justice Center when he was shot in the arm. A <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jonhouse_/status/1285478286433218560\">video</a> that House posted on Twitter at 12:34 a.m. shows a fire in the plaza on Southwest Main Street where an elk statue used to stand. About 29 seconds into the video, the frame wobbles as House is hit. “Federal agents moved in to clear the crowd. My arm got shot with an impact munition as I was taking this video (near the end),” House tweeted.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Federal agents moved in to clear the crowd. My arm got shot with an impact munition as I was taking this video (near the end). <a href=\"https://t.co/fgCrYhymPO\">pic.twitter.com/fgCrYhymPO</a></p>— Jonathan House (@jonhouse_) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jonhouse_/status/1285478286433218560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"z4uto\">House said he believes he was targeted. "This felt like the first time that I was specifically targeted," he told the <a href=\"https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/474507-383596-feds-injuring-portland-journalists-as-protests-boil-over?wallit_nosession=1\">Portland Tribune</a>. "That rubber bullet was six inches from putting me into the hospital."</p><p data-block-key=\"1wbjp\">House told the Tracker that he was wearing a bright blue climbing helmet marked “press,” as well as identification on his backpack and a large press pass.</p><p data-block-key=\"p0xsm\">“I understand that you shoot tear gas out and it just takes up whole city blocks, especially if it’s windy,” he said. “But it seems particularly egregious if I’m kind of just standing there and I’ve got both my hands up while I’m filming something, and then one shot is literally coming right at me and hitting me.”</p><p data-block-key=\"iv7ja\">DHS, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, said in a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/21/portland-riots-read-out-july-21\">statement</a> that officers used pepper balls and tear gas to respond to an “assault” against the courthouse and law enforcement officers by rioters. The agency didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incidents.</p><p data-block-key=\"gqeg3\">The Portland police said in a <a href=\"https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=251010\">statement</a> that its officers weren’t present and didn’t engage with protesters that evening.</p></div>",
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"title": "Freelance journalist struck with projectile at Portland protest",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"3lvhh\">Freelance journalist Michael Elliott said he was struck with a foam-tipped crowd-control munition while he covered a protest outside the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on July 21, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"p9zgw\">Elliott was covering one of the many protests that broke out in response to police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the May 25 death of George Floyd. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"rgefh\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"bdoor\">On the night of July 21, the “Wall of Moms” and thousands of other demonstrators converged on the courthouse downton for another night of confrontations with the federal agents. according to the local<a href=\"https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-protests-day-55-demonstrators-gather-to-chant-feds-go-home-crowds-dispersed-with-tear/article_abe8fd16-cbd6-11ea-bbf4-6b1f182fe188.html\"> KPTV</a> news station. When some protesters began pulling off the plywood blocking access to the courthouse shortly after 11 p.m., federal agents emerged from the building to clear the area.</p><p data-block-key=\"nz2ia\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/fieldnotesmedia/media\">Elliott</a>, who says his work has been published by VICE, Oregon Public Broadcasting and Willamette Week among others, told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker he was reporting from a sidewalk near independent journalist Eric Greatwood, who was livestreaming the protests with a camera attached to the top of a 20-foot pole.</p><p data-block-key=\"k9a5b\">The two journalists were standing on the corner of Third Avenue and Salmon Street, a block north of the federal courthouse.</p><p data-block-key=\"4m4zc\">“The federal agents were at the northwest corner of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse and they were firing at anything and everything by Lownsdale Park,” Elliott said. “I’m not entirely sure what it was that required them to have such a heavy response. At that point, most of the dispersal that they were gunning for had happened.</p><p data-block-key=\"cfsww\">“Nothing Eric or I were doing solicited the firing of the weapon other than just being there.”</p><p data-block-key=\"v3veo\">Elliott told the Tracker he was struck in the right shin with a foam-tipped round; Greatwood was <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/five-journalists-say-federal-agents-targeted-them-crowd-control-weapons-portland/\">struck multiple times as well</a>. Both of the journalists were wearing press badges around their necks and helmets marked “PRESS,” Elliot said.</p><p data-block-key=\"n5w94\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, said in a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/22/portland-riots-read-out-july-22\">statement</a> that officers were “forced” to leave the courthouse to repel a “mob” of protesters. DHS didn’t respond to a request for comment on this incident.</p><p data-block-key=\"udwzy\">The Portland Police Bureau said in a<a href=\"https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=251010\"> statement</a> that its officers weren’t present and didn’t engage with protesters that evening.</p></div>",
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"title": "Journalist says he was hit with crowd control munitions fired by federal agents while covering Portland protest",
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"title": "Journalist shoved down courthouse steps while covering Portland protest",
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"title": "Channel One Russia cameraman assaulted while covering Portland protests",
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"title": "Federal agent hits New York Times reporter in the head while he was covering Portland protest",
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"title": "Channel One Russia DC bureau chief assaulted covering Portland protests",
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"title": "Photojournalist injured by crowd-control munitions used by federal agents in Portland protests",
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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"n5l1g\">July 19 marked the 53rd day of protests in Portland, Binford-Ross <a href=\"http://clypian.com/2020/07/20/wall-of-moms-faces-off-with-federal-officers/\">reported</a> in her school paper, The Clypian. The protests had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> with the arrival of federal law enforcement in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Binford-Ross is a plaintiff in the class action <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/aclu_or_dhs_tro_declarations_packet072020.pdf\">suit</a>, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"6jkwj\">The mood at the demonstrations had felt positive at the start of the night, Binford-Ross told the Tracker. She was covering the second night of protests by the “Wall of Moms” outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse downtown, a nightly flashpoint for confrontations between protesters and federal agents.</p><p data-block-key=\"icgix\">Just before 10 p.m., law enforcement issued a warning to protesters who had been attempting to dismantle the fence around the courthouse, which the federal government considered crucial to its presence, according to a document <a href=\"https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-federal-courthouse-fence-taxpayer-cost/\">obtained by Oregon Public Broadcasting</a>. When the moms formed a barrier between protesters and the fence <a href=\"http://clypian.com/2020/07/20/wall-of-moms-faces-off-with-federal-officers/\">to de-escalate tensions</a>, federal officers rushed out of the courthouse and pointed guns at protesters from the other side of the fence.</p><p data-block-key=\"qh2a8\">It was just before midnight when the stun grenade was thrown towards Binford-Ross, she said. After some protesters had taken down parts of the fence, agents deployed stun grenades and tear gas to push protesters back into the street. Binford-Ross had already begun to retreat into Chapman Square and was away from most protesters when the multi-port stun grenade landed near her. 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This was the 2nd time in 3 days the Feds have thrown.... <a href=\"https://t.co/IBh0n73tzJ\">pic.twitter.com/IBh0n73tzJ</a></p>— Warren Binford (@childrightsprof) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/childrightsprof/status/1285302066718535682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ppvl0\">Another <a href=\"https://twitter.com/childrightsprof/status/1285307856808374272\">tweet</a> shows the stun grenade marked “BORTAC,” which is an acronym for the U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit.</p><p data-block-key=\"0vwt9\">In addition to having press identification, Binford-Ross had added additional press markings since being targeted with crowd-control munitions <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/student-journalist-covering-portland-protests-says-federal-agents-threw-flash-bang-grenade-toward-her/\">the day before</a>, including a helmet marked “press” on all four sides and pants with “press” written with reflective tape spelling down the leg</p><p data-block-key=\"t2srh\">While she’d felt more prepared to cover that night’s demonstrations since beginning her protest coverage in Portland two nights before, she still has moments when the odors of tear gas come to her at random times. “It definitely takes a mental and emotional toll,” said Binford-Ross, who covered more than 30 BLM protests in Portland and Salem for the school paper over the summer. 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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"6kpvw\">As one group of protesters returned to the main focus of ongoing demonstrations, the Multnomah County Justice Center and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse downtown, Stenvick went to cover another protest outside the Portland Police Association office in North Portland.</p><p data-block-key=\"v33d5\">As soon as Stenvick arrived, the situation escalated. Individuals had <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1284727495669866498\">set a fire</a> inside the PPA office, prompting the Portland police to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1284728812547174400\">declare a riot</a> just before 11 p.m.</p><p data-block-key=\"kinns\">In an interview with the Tracker, Stenvick describes seeing police use rubber bullets and smoke canisters. “I was always having to walk the line of trying to look out for my own safety but still being able to document things as well as I could,” Stenvick said.</p><p data-block-key=\"05qbd\">At that point, Stenvick backed away and followed directions by police. While taking pictures from the outskirts of the gathering, Stenvick noticed that protesters had suddenly started running. Stenvick looked back and saw police in riot gear bull-rushing protesters.</p><p data-block-key=\"y79km\">“I could tell in that moment that I was already in danger, and so I started running also, following police orders,” Stenvick told the Tracker. “Also putting my hands up in the air just to show that I wanted to comply with orders and not be a threat to them.”</p><p data-block-key=\"df8zz\">Stenvick said they yelled to the police, “I’m press! 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Fortunately I just got scraped. <a href=\"https://t.co/zoKmIEUIvS\">pic.twitter.com/zoKmIEUIvS</a></p>— Blair Stenvick (@BlairStenvick) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/BlairStenvick/status/1284729965087318022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"2n9ql\">While Stenvick didn’t report this specific incident to police, they are involved in a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon in June. The Portland Mercury is one of several plaintiffs in the case, which led to the city agreeing to <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/2020-07-16_preliminary_injunction.pdf\">a preliminary injunction</a> in July to not to arrest or harm any journalists or legal observers of the protests or impede their work. Stenvick provided testimony about a <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/portland-while-reporting-protests-city-journalists-tear-gassed-threatened/\">separate incident</a> as part of the preliminary injunction.</p><p data-block-key=\"hizct\">Derek Carmon, a spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau, was unable to comment on this incident due to the ongoing litigation.</p><p data-block-key=\"d48mm\">After the incident, Stenvick resolved to use the experience as a lesson about empathy. “Journalists ... use their own life experiences to relate to other people, so just seeing for myself — even just in that one instance — what it’s like to be unjustly treated by a police officer, I think that’s helpful for me to have some tiny little piece of understanding when covering these issues,” Stenvick told the Tracker.</p></div>",
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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, which <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documents assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after the May 25 death of George Floyd, considers a targeted crowd-control incident an assault.</p><p data-block-key=\"upynr\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Binford-Ross is a plaintiff in the class action <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/aclu_or_dhs_tro_declarations_packet072020.pdf\">suit</a>, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"zv3uj\">July 17 was the first night Binford-Ross had covered the Portland protests since federal agents had been deployed to the city. The first flash-bang grenade incident occurred shortly after 10 p.m., she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"ga8rv\">Demonstrators had gathered around 7 p.m. at the Multnomah County Justice Center for a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JoAnnPDX/status/1284247841850814464\">candlelight vigil</a>. Binford-Ross was outside the Justice Center when federal agents started ordering people to move. “Anyone who stepped into the street [got] shot with their crowd-control munitions,” she told the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"rpomb\">Binford-Ross moved down a block, where she met two acquaintances from Salem who were livestreaming the events. They were half a block away from protesters when a federal agent threw the flash-bang grenade over the wall near her. “There wasn’t any warning or anything...it was like 10 feet away from us...it was a blinding shock,” Binford-Ross said, adding she was temporarily deafened.</p><p data-block-key=\"6ttz1\">The second flash-bang grenade was thrown sometime after 1:30 a.m., as federal agents were advancing on protesters in Chapman Square. Binford-Ross was standing off to the side away from the protesters, she said, wearing press identification around her neck and carrying a large camera.</p><p data-block-key=\"hvaby\">As federal agents advanced on the crowd with guns drawn, one of them threw a flash-bang grenade towards her that exploded near her feet, stunning and deafening her again. “They shot right towards me...it came within 10 feet of me again,” Binford-Ross said.</p><p data-block-key=\"3uhzq\">She was recording at the time, and her mother, Warren Binford, posted the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/childrightsprof/status/1284558309744242690?s=20\">video</a> on Twitter. “These are concussive devices & they targeted a child,” her mother wrote.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our young daughter (a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/studentjournalist?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#studentjournalist</a>) had this <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/flashbang?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#flashbang</a> shot at her by the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Feds?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Feds</a> & <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#portland</a> police last night even though she was staying on the perimeter, wearing her press credentials & completely law abiding. These are concussive devices & they targeted a child. Shame! <a href=\"https://t.co/DWUk2ef86H\">pic.twitter.com/DWUk2ef86H</a></p>— Warren Binford (@childrightsprof) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/childrightsprof/status/1284558309744242690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"7ux2w\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment.</p><p data-block-key=\"m1lnn\">“It doesn't seem like something that would happen in the U.S.,” Binford-Ross said. “It felt like something you would experience in a war zone, especially when the people who are shooting the munitions towards you are unidentifiable federal agents, from undisclosed federal agencies and they’re in camo, like soldiers.”</p><p data-block-key=\"4omsn\">Binford-Ross, who covered more than 30 BLM protests in Portland and Salem for her school paper, The Clypian, over the summer, said she never planned on a career in journalism until she saw the value of reporting during this time. “It was a real lesson in perseverance and dedication and also personal safety,” said Binford-Ross, who said her tweets about the protests were used by ABC, Reuters, Yahoo News and other outlets.</p></div>",
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"title": "CBS Chicago journalist reports assault by police during Columbus statue protests",
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"title": "Portland journalist says federal agents shot projectiles at him during protests",
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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"88zj2\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"ic693\">In the early hours of July 17, Davis was filming federal agents returning to the building, which houses the local offices of the Internal Revenue Service and other federal departments. “They just started shooting at the press with mainly pepper bullets because we could see them breaking on the fence,” Davis told the Tracker, referring to the fence that was in place to prevent protesters from entering the closed city parks.</p><p data-block-key=\"9j8qm\">At 1:07 a.m., Davis <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1284036971623415808\">tweeted</a> a video showing officers shooting pepper balls towards him and other journalists from across the intersection of Southwest Madison Street and Southwest Third Avenue. “DHS shooting at press. There were no protesters behind me. I have press on my helmet and am holding out my press pass,” he wrote in the post. Davis told the Tracker that none of the pepper balls made direct contact with him, but landed around him.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DHS shooting at press. There were no protesters behind me. I have press on my helmet and am holding out my press pass. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Teargas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Teargas</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blacklivesmatter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/protest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#protest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/pdx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pdx</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#portland</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/oregon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oregon</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blm</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/acab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#acab</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/justicecenter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#justicecenter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/riotribs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#riotribs</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/gVnp0NPsmv\">pic.twitter.com/gVnp0NPsmv</a></p>— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1284036971623415808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"cever\">Later, when Davis returned to the same area to cover that evening’s protests, federal agents staged at the federal building fired on the crowd. A pepper grenade hit his hand and the iPhone he was using as a camera, he told the Tracker. One of his fingers was bloodied, and he was coated in pepper dust, as Davis documented in a video he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1284356643744919552\">tweeted</a> at 10:17 p.m.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am alright, just covered in some type of dust and my hand is sore. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blacklivesmatter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/protest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#protest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/pdx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pdx</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#portland</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/oregon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oregon</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blm</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/acab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#acab</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PDXprotest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PDXprotest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/justicecenter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#justicecenter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Feds?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Feds</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/dMA5NjxD2w\">pic.twitter.com/dMA5NjxD2w</a></p>— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1284356643744919552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"a4lnn\">Davis said his phone was covered in pepper dust, which became activated when his hands got sweaty. “So that was awful and I had to get medical care because it was really bad,” he said. “It took multiple days to wash off all the pepper dust.”</p><p data-block-key=\"b3uq6\">Given the size of the crowd, Davis doesn’t believe he was targeted as press in that instance. A member of the <a href=\"https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/portland-press-corps-protests.php\">Portland Press Corps</a> that uses the group’s Twitter handle @45thabsurdist was also affected by the grenade and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1284359597680029696\">posted</a> footage of when it hit.</p><p data-block-key=\"be05k\">“It was an explosion that covered<a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie\"> @hungrybowtie</a> and me with a powder that is fine until it contacted sweat or water which is when it started burning. Stay away from those,” wrote @45thabsurdist in a follow-up <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1284373814634147840\">tweet</a>, referring to Davis’ Twitter handle.</p><p data-block-key=\"lnmlr\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment.</p></div>",
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