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After the Portland, Oregon police department were thoroughly embarrassed by Antifa thugs last night for all the world to see when they got locked inside their own central precinct, police officers decided today that it was time to take action and dismantle the autonomous zone that protesters were apparently setting up around Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler’s uptown home.

The satisfying videos, which are reminiscent of how Asheville, North Carolina police officers promptly dismantled an autonomous zone set up a week ago, speak for themselves. But one of them is especially noteworthy for reasons we’ll get to in a minute:

#BREAKING: @PortlandPolice just declared the #PKAZ in Portland a "civil disturbance and unlawful assembly" in the Pearl District. Our @KATUNews cameras caught officers showing up.

From PPB: "If you do not leave you are subject to arrest or use of force." pic.twitter.com/Lb3TilltBp

— Evan Schreiber (@SchreiberEvan) June 18, 2020

ALERT: police have brought in Rapid Response team to clean barricade debris from ‘Autonomous Zone’ set early this morning in the Pearl District. Looks like most protesters have moved on, NW Glisan BLOCKED at 9th currently #LiveOnK2 #pdxtraffic pic.twitter.com/qk0zOUCexk

— Mike Warner (@MikeKATU) June 18, 2020

.@PortlandPolice say there was an attempt to make an autonomous zone in Portland and that failed last night. We have continuing coverage of the dispersing of protesters in the Pearl District on Good Day Oregon. pic.twitter.com/j1lASZcSPA

— Fox12Oregon (@fox12oregon) June 18, 2020

RIGHT NOW: Our @KATUNews 'Chopper 2' is over Portland's Pearl District as @PortlandPolice clear the debris from the 'Patrick Kimmons Autonomous Zone'#LiveDesk #PortlandProtests #PKAZ pic.twitter.com/jeNMGMgTzt

— Evan Schreiber (@SchreiberEvan) June 18, 2020

Note how it appears in the video below that police were using trash cans that occupiers had supplied for the zone before it got broken up (watch the guy with the bandana who appears on the left of the screen at about the 5 second mark – he drags the trash can, which has a protest sign thrown in it, away):

Our @KATUNews cameras caught @PortlandPolice tearing down the #PKAZ barriers in Portland's Pearl District. These were set up overnight as an 'Autonomous Zone' reportedly outside Mayor @tedwheeler's condo.

PPB: "Leave the area immediately or you are subject to arrest or force." pic.twitter.com/uhdI4meOUb

— Evan Schreiber (@SchreiberEvan) June 18, 2020

LOL at the guy in the foreground who goes “OK the party’s over…I’m grabbing my garbage can and gettin’ outta here!”

— Brian Cates //Flynn & Breitbart's Army! (@drawandstrike) June 18, 2020

Too funny.

Meanwhile, in Seattle…