Insane “Swoopers” Are Trying to Take Over the George Floyd Uprising in Portland

8/13/2020

I hadn’t been Downtown for a while, to the Multnomah County Justice Center that’s served as the center of the ongoing uprising in Portland. Demonstrations had been moving around to different neighborhood precinct stations, which I think is a fine tactic but which has made them more of a challenge to keep up with. So I geared up and hopped on the #8 bus.

The atmosphere in the park was strange. The crowd was as small as I’ve ever seen it, and seemed not at all…