Background on the station and opposition from @Ansel here: https://t.co/st1Ddmwy5Nhttps://t.co/st1Ddmwy5N
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Above, some context for today’s City Hall action. Below, Stranger reporter Heidi Groover’s Twitter coverage. (Follow her here.)
#BlockTheBunker speaker calls on council to reject new police precinct “if you want to even pretend to give a single fuck about black lives”
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
More than 100 people in overflow room (plus hundreds in chambers). #BlockTheBunker pic.twitter.com/jwknckczk6
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
2/2 Not totally unprecedented, but I’ve seen budget hearings and other meetings allowed to overflow, big crowds allowed in the halls, etc.
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Overwhelming majority of public comment speakers so far have been in opposition to new North Precinct. #BlocktheBunker
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
and Debora Juarez because of this: https://t.co/uytoynxEkO #BlocktheBunker
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Everyone in overflow room just decided to go up. “If there’s a lot of us they can’t do anything” #blockthebunker pic.twitter.com/qqGJ6MmCza
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
#BlocktheBunker pic.twitter.com/axtdFLNv6p
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Two cops discussing how many cops they need, sounds like here are some waiting outside. “It’s loud but under control,” he says on the radio
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
#BlocktheBunker activists into chambers, city council members appear to have given up pic.twitter.com/8rk7J5jyea
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Council members have left the dais. #BlocktheBunker pic.twitter.com/EEAWnjhSqd
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Bruce Harrell going to reconvene mtg: “I know you’re fighting for stuff you care passionately about, please fight with us” #BlocktheBunker
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
“End white supremacy, black power matters,” protesters chant as council moves on to agenda. #BlocktheBunker pic.twitter.com/mUQHxI4Mh7
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
Theme throughout #BlocktheBunker public testimony: spend money on social services, housing, homelessness, not police.
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
(Vote on resolution about police precinct coming later on agenda)
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) August 15, 2016
