Anonymous Threats! Downtown Retailers! Another Round of Mayor Sam Adams' Occupy Portland Emails!

Portland Mercury:

Every week or so since October 7, give or take, I've been regularly reviewing hundreds of Occupy Portland-related emails sent from, or received by, Mayor Sam Adams' office. Lately, there's been such a fire hose of news, that I've wound up just dropping relevant scraps into stories or posts as needed. But maybe you've noticed: After Chief Mike Reese's apology and measured decision to let marchers mostly start minding themselves, the past few days have been pretty quiet. Which means this is as good a time as any to get back on the ball and post another catch-all roundup of the more interesting Occupy bits circulating through city hall.
First up! The chief's promise of a light-to-absent police presence at marches does come with caveats. While helping to draft a response to an occupier who let Adams' staff know about an Occupy proposal to explicitly obey traffic laws during marches, deputy chief of staff Jennifer Yocom privately reminded staffers that larger marches like October 6's, or marches planned for busier days of the week, may change the equation. (Today's Black Friday "fur-free" march, for example, which brought 200 people downtown, did have a modest police escort.)

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