A large number of sympathizers with Enjoy Tigard confirmed up at pre-dawn now, quickly ending down-town traffic, to aid demonstrators as they declined the night contract to depart two next metropolis areas from which they've formally been kicked out.
Occupy Portland's Myspace page details an e-mail deal with for demonstrators seeking advice from the Nationwide Attorneys Guild -- indicating the group's solve to stay put at a time when authorities are voicing worry about the protection of Enjoy encampments in several places.
"Take off your huge range fit. You're attractive, you're cute" and "Shame on you" are among the chants Tigard demonstrators focused at law enforcement in huge range products would you been sent to eliminate approximately 200 staying demonstrators, according to ABC Announcement Stereo.
On Wednesday, some demonstrators did take apart their camping tents, heeding an order from Gran Sam Adams, who said circumstances are harmful at the encampment and that it is appealing to drug-users and crooks, The Associated Click revealed.
Throughout the night, the number of law enforcement fluctuated—by 4 a.m., approximately 200 authorities were expanded across a neighborhood fronting a government courthouse—but law enforcement confirmed no symptoms of going against demonstrators, according to The AP.
Nevertheless, police said they had been preparing to fend off a clash against dozens of purported anarchists, AP reported.
On Friday, police seized cement blocks that they were told some demonstrators planned to use them as weapons against police.
"We'll take action that's appropriate, when it's appropriate," police spokesman Lt. Robert King told AP.
"We are not going to engage in confrontation for a misdemeanor," he said, noting that remaining in the park after midnight constitutes a misdemeanor.
Police action seemed less likely after crowds of supportes swelled in the parks during the early morning.
By then, protesters have already met to discuss how to proceed as the midnight deadline passed, and repeated the Occupy Wall Street movement's aim of being nonviolent.
"We are a peaceful resistance," Chico Tallman, a 63-year-old accountant told AP. "But we're fed up with the direction the country is going. It's all about profit."
Elsewhere, two San Francisco police officers Saturday said they were cut by two people in an Occupy march who, after those assaults, disappeared into the crowd.
"Apparently one of the demonstrators had a sharp object on the end of one of their sign sticks, and reached across and sliced his finger," said San Francisco Capt. Rick Parry, adding that the officer was trying to clear an intersection.
A second officer was cut in the face in a scuffle with a protestor, Parry told ABC News Radio.
Occupy organizers were unconvinced.
"Police did a lot to try to force us off the streets and maybe someone had something sharp on them but that's just a conjecture," one protester told an ABC News Radio reporter who was recording on the scene.
In Philadelphia, police said an Occupy camper alleged that she was raped inside an Occupy tent by an out-of-towner who'd traveled to Pennsylvania to protest.
Soon after the attack, they arrested the suspect whose criminal record includes several arrests for robberies in Kalamazoo, Mich., officials said.
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