Watch Five Portland Rappers Call Out Local Cops in the Music Video for “Dear Portland Police”

Most of the video was filmed in front of the murals that have been painted on the boarded up Apple Store downtown. There’s visual and lyrical references throughout the video of law enforcement’s history of connections to the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, burning American flags, footage of riot cops facing protestors and shots of Black Lives Matter signs placed below the murals.

In the 1980s, Mic Crenshaw Worked to Confront White Supremacists in Minneapolis. Now He Raps and Speaks at Anti-Racist Protests in Portland.

Crenshaw’s connection to the current uprising run deep, not only because of his long history as an activist, but also because of where that history began—in the same city where police officers killed George Floyd. Crenshaw attended middle school and high school in Minneapolis, Minn., where he became a founding member of Anti-Racist Action, an organization that confronted white supremacists.

Read the Statement of Micah Fletcher, Who Survived Portland’s MAX Stabbings

Jeremy Christian Is Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole for Fatal 2017 MAX Stabbings

We Asked Portland Leaders: What Moment From the Jeremy Christian Trial Will You Remember?

Jeremy Christian Found Guilty of Murder

The jury deliberated for nearly a dozen hours before it reached a verdict.

Micah Fletcher Testifies in Jeremy Christian Trial: “I Just Wasn’t Strong Enough”

In that moment, Fletcher testified, he thought he was dying. He called his mom.

Here’s How the Teenagers Targeted by Jeremy Christian Described the Encounter

Their accounts resonate beyond the courtroom.