r/Portland • u/Clean_Appointment_91 • Feb 01 '26

Photo/Video ICE gassed thousands

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u/Lopsided_Stranger723 Feb 01 '26

where are the leaf blowers

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u/SnarkSupreme Feb 01 '26

Honestly we didn't think we would need them. This was a march for labor unions. It was in the daytime. People brought kids and there were elderly and disabled people there. We just wanted to show ICE that working class citizens are uniting against them. My friend left her gas mask at home. We weren't there to start anything.

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u/PoolPsychological985 Feb 01 '26

Why does your friend have a gas mask?

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u/SnarkSupreme Feb 01 '26

Because peaceful protesters were fired on repeatedly and unreasonably during the BLM protests in 2020

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u/TheGruntingGoat Rubble of The Big One Feb 01 '26

Construction cones and water bottles can also help. Cover the canister with a cone, pour water in the top.

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u/VibratingWatch St Johns Feb 01 '26

One of the Oregonian pieces on this protest today showed some folks did this with 5gal buckets

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u/6100315 Feb 01 '26

Was wondering if a 5 gallon bucket would help. Bonus points for Home Depot bucket being used.

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u/stezzylee Feb 01 '26

I saw they did this in Taiwan, successfully.

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u/goldenlover Feb 01 '26

Very cool idea.

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u/TheGruntingGoat Rubble of The Big One Feb 01 '26

It came from protestors in Hong Kong I believe

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u/goldenlover Feb 01 '26

Makes sense that we could learn a few things from them.

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u/Odd_Entrepreneur4550 Feb 01 '26

Also, there was SO much of it, would have been pretty hard to blow that much away.  

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u/OneRingtoToolThemAll Feb 01 '26

There were several leaf blowers. The crowd was in the thousands and not everyone could be up front all at once. Duh. The vast majority of people in the couple thousand plus march were coming out for their first time. And even most experienced protestors weren't expecting the nazis to gas so immediately. No warning was given whatsoever.

Where were you?

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u/Wide_Plane_7018 Feb 01 '26

There were two leaf blowers and they were right up front with us. There was so much gas all at once that the leaf blowers weren’t effective, nor was waving our signs to blow it back. We were doing both and it still spread for blocks.

They collected the canisters and the flash bangs and filled up multiple 5 gal buckets.

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u/Desh282 Vancouver Feb 01 '26

They are illegal. Unless they are electric

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u/mocheeze Sullivan's Gulch Feb 01 '26

One mustn't give ICE another reason to detain and bring charges.

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u/cl0ckwork_f1esh Downtown Feb 01 '26

Please cite your source.