@tedwheeler & @ChloeEudalyPDX, we were assured at yesterday’s city council meeting that PPD would not help DHS. Yet they are blocking roads to aid this raid. And are local jails receiving the arrestees?
Portlanders, please call @tedwheeler and insist he keep his promise about PPD noncompliance with DHS and ICE. Blocking roads & jailing arrestees is compliance.
Solidarity & resistance can be simple, folks. But it does take speaking up, which I know can feel hard.
I’ve done this myself in various situations. One in particular stands out:
Police came on a BART train I was on and were going to take a man away (he was Black and developmentally disabled). He was terrified and started reciting a phone number, asking someone to please call his mother who would worry when he didn’t show up.