celebrate portland's own cop-fighting anti-capitalist lesbian doctor

[bcbm]

http://tal9000.tumblr.com/post/47907848532/celebrate-portlands-own-cop-fighting-anti-capitalist

[Os Cangaceiros]

Thanks, I'd never heard of this person. I like reading about obscure radicals...a lot of them had pretty crazy lives.

[Rugged Collectivist]

The truth of the matter is that Marie became famous early on in the The Dalles, Oregon by publicly beating a delinquent boss with a horse-whip: he had neglected to pay her “female companion” $100.
“Deputy Sheriff Downey tried to restrain the infuriated woman [Equi], She gave him a right arm swing in the jaw. Night Watchman Fifer, a meek little man, tried to remonstrate with Dr. Equi, but her ready fist caught him below the left eye… Gaining entrance, she persuaded the elevator man to take her up to the jail on the top floor, where she opened up her batteries of vituperation on Sheriff Word and his deputies. She raked them fore and aft… Mrs. O’Connor [the arrested woman] was not booked, but was allowed to depart from jail, escorted by Dr. Equi.”
she stabbed the patrolman with a hatpin that the newspapers rumored was poisoned.What a badass.

EDIT: I mean, how many people could punch their way into a courthouse, angrily convince the people inside to let a prisoner go, and then just walk out like it wasn't even a thing.

[bcbm]

old school radicals make most modern radicals look like total weiners.