Livestreamers are filming — and sometimes creating — conflict at Portland ICE protests for clicks and cash

It was just getting dark outside Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on a Sunday in late October , and Jeremy Roberts had his phone out.

Like most of the dozen or so people filming the nightly protests, Roberts’ phone was mounted on a small pole that helped him grip it more firmly. He had attached a fuzzy, professional looking microphone.

As he walked down the street, Roberts bumped into a woman wearing a sloth costume and a pink beanie. She walked with a cane. When she took exception to the bump, Roberts argued that she’d gotten in his way. A man wearing a keffiyeh and pink bandana came over to defend the sloth, loudly.

Roberts held his phone inches from the other man’s face. Then about six other people with cameras showed up. Suddenly, the two men were shout