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A Portland woman raises her arms in a hands-up gesture as she faces down Portland police during
a demonstration Saturday in downtown Portland. The pose has come to symbolize demands to
reform the justice system in the wake the events in Ferguson, Mo., Portland and across the country.
Hands
Up,
Don’t
Shoot!
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A rallying cry
in midst of
upheaval
O livia O livia
T he P ortland O bserver
Portland has become one of
the leading cities to join in soli
darity with protests over the ju s
tice system in the wake of the
events in Ferguson, Mo.
When national civil rights ac
tivist Jesse Jackson visited Port
land on Saturday night, a rally
later turned into a heated march,
by
ATV screen shot o f civil rights leader Jesse Jackson during a visit
to Portland where he joined a rally Saturday and spoke Sunday at
Emmanuel Temple Church. (KGW photo)
that ultimately lead to 10 arrests
and a bout with riot police offic
ers using flash-bang grenades to
disperse protestors.
Hundreds of activists lined the
streets near the Portland Justice
Center, raising their arms and
shouting “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
- a phrase that has quickly be
come a national rallying cry
against police brutality.
The pose is based off eye
witness accounts that describe
the unarm ed black teenager,
Mike Brown, being shot and
killed by a Ferguson police of
ficer in August. The Nov. 24
an n o u n cem en t that O fficer
Darren Wilson would not be in
dicted for the death has sent off
waves of protests across the
country, and the story of his
hands up carried a visual gesture
for protestors to imitate as well.
When Jackson spoke to the
Portland crowd, he cried out for
patience and understanding and
peace in the black community as
racial d isp a ritie s in p o lice
shootings continue a pattern for
people of color, especially black
males.
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