I was over near the window and spied something odd: inflated figures. There were two of them, attached to two white trucks.
When I craned my head I saw their purpose: it was a protest by construction workers.
A well-timed protest, as a media tour for the new Albina Library was happening in the next 30 minutes.
The protest seemed to be about one of the contractors for the library using non-union subcontractors. Hence the rat (I think it was a rat, I didn’t see it from the front) squeezing the neck of the construction worker.
After a few hours, they deflated the figures and drove away.