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Student reporter gets a not-so-subtle threat: ‘STOP FILMING’ anti-Trump protests

‘CONSIDER THIS A WARNING’

Portland State University’s student media are covering the riots against President-elect Donald Trump in their city, and someone apparently doesn’t want the attention.

Mike Bivins, who writes for the Pacific Sentinel campus magazine and has been on a tear with video from the protests, got a threatening letter that ended:

STOP FILMING. CONSIDER THIS A WARNING.

His colleague at the Vanguard student paper, Andy Ngo, posted the flyer that Bivins received. It pretty baldly demands that student journalists stop reporting – which might incidentally help police identify suspects – and start advocating for the protesters’ causes.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/797869339621801985

Bivins said he got the same flyer as a direct message on Twitter, just in case the paper version wasn’t convincing enough.

Bivins said he also got the warning in person before someone decided to reinforce it with paper and digital copies.

As Ngo’s tweet referenced, the Portland Police Department said protesters had “attacked a film crew” overnight on Saturday.

Ngo told The College Fix in a Twitter message that the Vanguard hasn’t received any anonymous warnings like Bivins did.

Much of the violence in Portland has been blamed on the region’s anarchists – the Pacific Northwest has a vocal and protest-happy anarchist population – so it seems plausible that these are threats from anarchists, particularly given their police-specific demands.

Here’s one scene Bivins captured where protesters actually followed police as they were leaving.

And some run-of-the-mill wanton destruction.

Watch your back, Mike. Some people haven’t learned the message that photography is not a crime.

h/t Creative News Junkie

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Greg Piper served as associate editor of The College Fix from 2014 to 2021.