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05-01-2026 - Tacoma WA - May Day + NWDC

Photos from Tacoma's May Day Rally & March to NWDC

#MayDay #Tacoma #TacomaWA #NWDC #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

(PORTLAND) - A federal judge in Oregon ruled Monday that he would continue to strictly limit federal law enforcement’s use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

@ https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/09/federal-judge-limits-crowd-control-devices-portland-ice-building/

Department of Homeland Security officers at the ICE building had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on nonviolent protesters, in part to chill their First Amendment rights, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon found.

The ruling also grants preliminary class certification, meaning the decision applies to all nonviolent protesters and journalists outside the Portland ICE building.

In the sworn interviews played in court, DHS officers demonstrated a lack of understanding about the First Amendment, passive resistance, crowd control tactics and their own agency’s use of force policies.

@ https://www.opb.org/pdf/ACLU_order_1773104324987.pdf

(a) No Enjoined Person may direct or use chemical or projectile munitions, including but not limited to kinetic impact projectiles, pepper ball or paintball guns, tear gas or
other chemical irritants, soft nose rounds, 40mm or 37mm launchers, less lethal shotguns, and flashbang, Stinger, or rubber ball grenades, unless the specific target of such a weapon or device poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person.

(b) No Enjoined Person may fire any munitions or use any weapons described in subsection (a) at the head, neck, or torso of any person, unless the officer is legally justified in using deadly force against that person.

(c) No Enjoined Person may use pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, or other aerosol restraint spray (collectively, "OC Spray"), unless the specific target of that weapon exhibits, at a minimum, active resistance (cont) In addition, no Enjoined Person may use OC Spray indiscriminately against groups of people where bystanders foreseeably would be affected. (cont)

#Portland #PortlandOR #PDX #Oregon #ICE

Our footage was recently featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting:

‘Potential lethal force’: how Portland's immigration protests took the national stage

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNwbmWwcNc

PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-crackdown-part-1-xlybix/

OPB’s documentary series “The Crackdown” follows how those policies are playing out across the Pacific Northwest.

Article: https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/27/national-guard-portland-ice-protests/

#Portland #PDX #PortlandOR #Oregon

03-28-2026 - Portland OR - No Kings, No ICE - (VIDEO)

For NK3 we posted over 100 photos from two events from Olympia to Portland!

VIDEO @ https://kolektiva.media/w/guwJj72qezwojmDT8sbssZ

Primary Portland post @ @iNFoPiG@kolektiva.social

#Portland #PortlandOR #PDX #NoKings #Oregon #PNW #ICE

01-31-2026 - Portland - DHS ICE Facility

Yesterday 2,000 or more people gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland Oregon. Many families and children were in attendance. After multiple events and speakers, the crowd marched to the DHS ICE facility. Not long after arriving, DHS and Border Patrol came out and attacked the crowd with gas and munitions.

Video @ https://kolektiva.media/w/2kLfNZHv7qcoZdhkHT2KMK

#Portland #PortlandOR #PDX #PortlandOregon #Oregon #ICE

05-01-2026 - Tacoma WA - GEO Group “CERT” employees hiding in NWDC parking lot.

Background: The Northwest Detention Center, also known as the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWDC/NWIPC), is for-profit owned and operated by GEO Group, located in Tacoma, Washington.

“CERT Teams are SWAT-Like units meant to surveil and repress detained people at NWDC”. “Every time I see that uniform with CERT, I have a panic attack, think something is going to happen to me. I got assaulted once CERT staff. When I see them, I stay away from them” - NWDC detainee, 04/28/2025, La Resistencia

On September 1st 2025, we attended a protest at the NWDC in Tacoma WA, and took a photo of a GEO Group employee in a black uniform wearing a black tactical vest with a unique patch. We researched the patch at the time, but didn’t find anything conclusive. *If you have a better photo, specific insight, or design-identifying information on this patch, let us know.*

“I have been a subject of sheer retaliation by GEO (officer Berame) and his CERT gang due to my grievances. They have been retaliating with bogus write up, biased hearings, and solitary confinement with the blessing of higher management and ICE. Subsequently, i submitted a couple of grievances against Berame he told me, I’m ‘just an immigrant. Nobody is going to believe (me).’ He is right about that because no one does anything about these dehumanizing and abusive behaviors. They can do anything with impunity, including sexual harassments.” – 02/20/2024, La Resistencia

During a May 1st 2026 protest at the NWDC, we noticed (2) GEO Group employees hiding behind a tinted, black 4x4 Ford F150 truck. Both kept peering over the back of the truck bed off/on. One of them was wearing a black “CERT” hat. Once they decided to stop hiding and go inside, both appeared to be wearing “CERT” hats along with (the now-identified) “CERT” patches on their uniforms.

According to a 2023 PDF on geogroup.com, “C.E.R.T.” is cited as an acronym for “Correctional Emergency Response Team”. However, according to a later 2024 PDF on geogroup.com, “C.E.R.T.” is listed as “Community Emergency Response Team”. This slip-up in the 2024 document is not entirely an accident.

Both 2023 and 2024 documents detail separate instances of CERT directing up to (50) middle school students (in Folkston GA, from a Junior Sheriff’s Academy) in use-of-force demonstrations. In 2023 and 2024 photos, middle school students are pictured “in full riot gear” handcuffing people.

https://geogroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GEO-World-Q2-2023.pdf – (Page 11)

https://www.geogroup.com/media/d4nfxbbz/2q-geo-world-2024_final-resize.pdf – (Page 19)

“GEO Prison sent their CERT Team to demonstrate the importance of their rapid response to unruly prisoners!” - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222593249916209&set=pb.1120666873.-2207520000&type=3

NPR’s 2025 article on GEO Group and ICE in Folkston GA is worth the read: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5538441/ice-detainees-folkston-georgia

“How awful for carceral facilities to co-opt the term CERT! The COMMUNITY Emergency Response Team program (in contrast to the correctional Emergency Response Team program), has a history of outstanding support during times of distress and duress during natural disaster, mobilizing citizens and residents to aid in emergency communications and service to anyone regardless of status.” – social media response.

This comment highlights the “CERT” acronym being widely understood and utilized for purposes quite different than instilling fear within a privately operated detention center. A quick Google search for “Community Emergency Response Team” returns a variety of local and federal services across the U.S.

https://www.google.com/search?&q=Community+Emergency+Response+Team

When the (2) GEO Group employees exited from hiding behind the truck, they weren’t just wearing “CERT” gear, they were also wearing name tags. One of the name tags was “Berame”. It would seem certain there’s only one Tacoma GEO Group employee with that name. See quotes from “La Resistencia”

Berame is mentioned 15x in graphic detail within a recent 02/12/2026 article on prospect.org:

“The three plaintiffs, all Black men in Tacoma, Washington’s Northwest ICE Processing Center, say that the assaults reflect a “recurring pattern by a group of guards,” especially defendants Justin Berame and Kobe Suafoa.”

https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/

So, that’s why GEO Group “CERT” employees were hiding in the parking lot.

“The guard was also involved in the alleged assaults on the two other plaintiffs, and he carried a mug adorned with a sticker of the Proud Boys, the right-wing extremist group, according to the suit. The filing, noting each plaintiff is Black, alleges that GEO Group “determined it appropriate to allow openly racist employees substantial power over non-white incarcerated persons.”

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article314608363.html

Assaults and sexual assaults are not new topics at the NWDC. Last year, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights released a detailed report on assaults at the NWDC, largely pinning inaction on the Tacoma Police Department, ICE, and GEO Group. In 2024, TPD erroneously reported the privately run for-profit detention center was “Not TPD jurisdiction” and to “let staff know they can handle the complaint in house”

https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2025/04/24/conditions-at-the-nwdc-patterns-of-neglect-in-tpd-response-to-abuse-and-assault/

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#Tacoma #TacomaWA #ICE #GEOGroup #NWDC #NWIPC #ShutdownNWDC #ShutdownNWIPC

04-25-2026 - Olympia WA - Procession of the Species

Photos from Saturday's Procession of the Species in Olympia (+MORE)

@olympiaprocession (Instagram)

2025 Photos @ @iNFoPiG@kolektiva.social

2024 Photos @ @iNFoPiG@kolektiva.social

#Olympia #OlympiaWA #OlyWA #PNW #Washington

We've listened in on multiple days of hearings in #Portland for the TRO against DHS/ICE on use of force at the Portland DHS facility:

- The Temporary Restraining Order will expire, but we feel it will likely be re-introduced next Monday, with additional modifications and clarity on use of force regarding chemical munitions (such as tear gas and or perpperballs)

- Improper use of force on behalf of DHS/ICE officers dominated full-days of hearings as it relates to violations of 1st amendment rights.

- The judge is *very* interested in what if anything may occur at the facility over the next few days, after the TRO expires.

Also today, check out OPB's video @ https://www.instagram.com/p/DVecbVbibHT/

+ Our opposite video perspective @ @iNFoPiG@kolektiva.social

+ We also had another video from that same day @ @iNFoPiG@kolektiva.social

#PortlandOR #PDX #Oregon #ICE