
Come to the Eugene City Council meeting at 7:30 & tell em how you feel about EPD and ICE
There's a City Council meeting tonight at 7:30 PM, at:
500 E. 4th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
The City of Eugene has been working with the feds, and the culture of EPD is clearly toxic, racist, and protective of abusers. Things we should all be concerned about:
Here is a look into Eugene Police Department culture (content warning: domestic abuse, racism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqKaFcpE6Uo
Another video from the body cam of the same officer: https://vimeo.com/1191286275/214be21fdc?fl=pl&fe=sh
EPD has also been working with ICE. They have:
- Pulled over ICE legal observers to allow ICE cars to get away,
- Guarded ICE cars as they left the fed building with masked agents
- Protected federal agents from protesters to allow feds to gas people
- Protected the fence construction from 20 people with signs
- Harassed protesters megaphoning at the building while freely allowing bigoted religious hate groups to megaphone at Saturday market
And now this.
Meanwhile, the City of Eugene planning department fast-tracked permits to allow the federal government to install the Federal Building fence. They could have at least issued a resolution to ask the City Manager not to grant them those permits, but they refused to do so.
The City Manager needs to fire Chief Skinner. We can't accept this in our city.
Chief Skinner will be attending tonight's meeting, as a means to intimidate protesters who would face up to him. We need to come out in numbers, because we are stronger together.
Come on out and help hold our city leaders accountable for failing us this badly.
See the meeting details here: