21 July 2020

It's not what you say, it's how you...

...[cough, cough] say it...insert alt text here
In the five hours he had been out, Dave Killen, a photographer for The Oregonian/OregonLive, and a group of protesters had been pushed by police northward on Third Avenue, he said, to its intersection with Taylor Street.

Officers stood across the intersection, facing the group of protesters.

Then, a naked woman appeared. She walked out to the intersection in front of where police were standing. Killen said she was wearing only a face mask and a stocking cap while she was facing the police. She paced the area near the crosswalk.

She laid down, kicking up her feet. She did ballet poses. “Everyone seemed surprised and kind of astounded,” Killen said.
Whatever else you might take away from this, you have to admire the level of commitment.

As one former police officer observed... "Not sure I'd be willing to take a pepperball to the cooter."

Amen, brother.