This is happening not far from me and I’ve been watching it play out over the last three months. It’s egregious what ICE is getting away with. The agents are armed and armored. They’re tackling peaceful protectors, slamming them to the ground, sending them to the hospital. The school’s outdoor playground is about 50 feet away from where they’re constantly gassing. It’s not just the school either, there are apartment buildings and businesses across the street from the ICE building where residents are getting exposed as well. There’s a dance school a couple blocks down as well where adults and children come and go.
It’s not even like the gas is being an effective deterrent. The protestors have masks too or simply just don’t give a fuck and tank it. They’re just deploying munitions against civilians because they can and want to.
Iceoutofportland has been regularly reporting on the situation from the front line all summer if you want to see what’s been going down daily since June.
Now imagine, successful GoFundMe campaigns for everybody but funded by taxes on the rich instead of random working people’s well-meaning but arbitrary intentions.