After a night of standoff, it looked like Portland Police had agreed to give the Occupiers a three-day extension before they had to leave. So people dropped their guard, and many who had been up all night left to get some sleep. There were only a couple of dozen people left… when the police moved in.

Our reporter on the ground, Li’l Nadia, says they have been picking up tents with a crane and dropping them into a dumpster, and this resulted in injury or death to a dog that was inside one tent.

There have been a number of arrests, and some minor injuries from batons as the riot police pushed the crowd back. Police used batons on protesters who had linked arms.

“We thought Portland was going to be different,” she says. “I guess we were wrong.”

Livestream here, here and here. Last night’s liveblog here.

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UPDATE 5:00 PST: Occupation is on the move. With the police backing down, the protesters are moving to Pioneer Courthouse Square.

UPDATE 4:55 PST: Police line pulls back. A lot of protesters have left, too.

A few protesters try to move into the intersection, but cars start moving along 4th Avenue. Main Street remains Occupied.

UPDATE 4:15 PST: To move or not to move? General Assembly going on. On Main Street. Might take a while to get consensus on that one. But one thing has moved: the protesters who set up the front-line tent have pulled out.

Mayor Sam Adams has been following the action by iPad. The revolution will not be… oh, never mind. 🙂

UPDATE 3:50 PST: More police have arrived. The line facing the protesters on Main is now two deep. Protesters are offering Voodoo donuts to the cops.

UPDATE 3:35 PST: Occupiers bring up a tent and set it up on Main street, just a few feet from the police line. Yay for creative protest!

UPDATE 3:30 PST: Dissent in the ranks. Man on megaphone says General Assembly voted to reconvene in Pioneer Square. Crowd chants back “General Assembly right here!” Another woman says “What we are doing here is useless. If we really want to be peaceful and make a change, standing here and yelling the same thing over and over won’t accomplish anything.”

Meanwhile, they’ve strung a banner across Main Street.

UPDATE 3:10 PST: With reinforcements, police line has tightened up. Crowd has also continued to grow. Now estimated at as many as 1,000.

UPDATE 3:05 PST: KGW interviews Zoey Taylor, there with the Occupation, her son is an officer on the line with the OPD. “I think there is a great deal of restraint on both sides. I just moved from New York, and I think this would have been handled very differently there.”

UPDATE 3:00 PST: Large number of Salem police just arrived. Some of them are carrying tear gas guns. Are they replacing some of the officers who have been on the front lines… or are they massing for action?

UPDATE 2:55 PST: “We know these people aren’t here to be arrested, they’re not here for confrontation.”- Sgt Pete Simpson.

UPDATE 2:50 PST: Police Chief Mike Reese: “We wanted to take back the parks with as little confrontation as possible. It was a large crowd last night but more of a carnival atmosphere than anything else and our officers were very patient. We’re still in the process of setting fences up and moving the crowd out of the streets. The parks bureau will be in there to do the restoration.”

UPDATE 2:30 PST: Standoff continues. There are still hundreds of people on Main Street between 5th and 6th. The police keep asking them to get off the street, but there really isn’t room to go. The crowd has swelled since the police action began, and this may have gotten away from the police. We may be back to where we were last night: “Banks were too big to fail? We’re too big to JAIL!”

This has been remarkably civilized, compared to what we’ve seen from Oakland, Nashville, San Deigo… maybe we do things differently in the Northwest?

UPDATE 2:15 PST: Discussions are underway to move to Pioneer Square for a GA (and a peaceful solution to the standoff). Nadia says a lot of the Occupiers didn’t want to leave while there were still people in the park facing arrest. That seems to be done. But a lot of the Occupiers still don’t want to back down.

UPDATE 2:00 PST: Police have moved on the “relaxation station” to arrest the last occupiers inside. They are being led out of the park with their hands ziptied behind their backs. Police are trashing the last tents and setting up fencing.

UPDATE 1: 45 PST: Nadia reports “There are still peaceful people in the camp, and they have used tear gas on them. Could be 20 to 50 still there.

“There are probably 1,000 people here. They closed the sidewalk and pushed us into the intersection, and now they are saying we must be move to the sidewalk.

“They literally picked me up and moved me four feet INTO the road. Now they say we are blocking traffic. Police are issuing warnings: Clear the streets or face tear gas and rubber bullets.

There was a person who needed medical evacuation, but 911 refused to let her out without police escort, and police refused for about 20 minutes.

UPDATE 1: 30 PST: Standoff. Police have cleared the parks, but not the streets.

UPDATE 1: 13 PST: The parks are nearly cleared. Police have just brought in two trucks full of fencing. Presumably they will fence off the parks as soon as they have fully cleared the parks. Clearly they don’t intend for people to move back in again.

UPDATE 1:00 PST: Police are pushing back the crowd further. Cries of “medic!” and “There is a wall behind these people!” and “Shame, shame!”

Police had moved the crowd off the sidewalk onto the blocked-off streets; now they are ordering them back onto the sidewalk.

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