“The protest right now is about Black Lives Matter. While protests around the federal courthouse have remained calm for three consecutive nights, Portland police officers chased demonstrators through the streets near a local precinct.PORTLAND, Ore. — Late on Saturday night, with protests in Portland continuing into their third month, one crowd of demonstrators gathered yet again in front of the city’s fortified federal courthouse while another group traveled miles east to a precinct used by local law enforcement.At the federal courthouse, the crowd saw a third consecutive night of calm since While the arrival of federal agents wearing camouflage last month outraged protesters and local government leaders alike, their presence also masked the more personal grievances that protesters have long had with their local police force.Gia Naranjo-Rivera, who had been protesting for weeks, said that while she was appalled by the arrival of federal agents, she believed local police officers brought their own form of hyper-militarization and repressive tactics. Officers set up bright lights to shine into the crowd, angering some. Militants had been setting up camp there for more than a day.
An American flag - hung outside the Multnomah County Justice Center in Portland, Oregon - was burned by demonstrators at around midnight on Saturday night. When it appeared one of the officers had brought out what looked like a camera to film the crowd, some protesters pointed lasers at the device. Another, large group of protesters was dispersed by police when they attempted to rally a block south of the precinct. Kate Brown of Oregon and leaders from the Department of Homeland Security, the state found a pathway to withdraw federal agents, with Ms. Brown vowing to put state troopers in place to provide security around the courthouse.Since that plan went into effect on Thursday, there has been a minimal law enforcement presence on the streets.
As violent protests sweep the nation following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Portland rioters have set fire to the Portland Police Department and the Justice Center.“The Justice Center, which houses the @PortlandPolice precinct and sheriff’s office, is now under attack,” theBy 2:20 a.m, the Justice Center was also ablaze.
While protests around the federal courthouse have remained calm for three consecutive nights, Portland police officers chased demonstrators through the streets near a local precinct. Demonstrators took to the streets again Monday night and police broke up a protest outside a police precinct substation after ... headquarters for Portland's police. Portland police said some demonstrators in the group laid ties made of rebar in the street that caused damage to police vehicles. Burning a flag is not about Black Lives Matter.”Federal agents haven’t fully retreated. PORTLAND protesters have burned an American flag hanging outside the Justice Center and replaced it with a Black Lives Matter sign. But with the federal courthouse among the targets of some of the remaining demonstrators, and President Trump issuing an executive order to protect statues and government property around the country, federal agents deployed at the beginning of July.Their presence and tactics, including firing crowd-control munitions and swinging batons, infuriated the city, drawing thousands out to the streets once again to stand against what many saw as a troubling federal incursion into a city that didn’t want them. Police said someone threw a glass jar or bottle at officers.The protest crowds have remained much larger than they had been in the days before federal agents had arrived.While protest crowds numbered in the thousands in early June, those figures waned over the month.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler spoke out against Portland rioters on Thursday after they attempted to burn a police precinct down while blocking off all exits to ensure that anyone who was inside would be burned alive or beaten if they attempted to leave. As violent protests sweep the nation, Portland rioters have set fire to the Portland Police Department and the Justice Center. Sergio Olmos of Underscore News A fire has started in the street (in more ways than one) In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, national grief and rage have turned violent. Naranjo-Rivera said the protests needed to continue.“If this movement doesn’t succeed right now, we are just kicking the can down the road to the next civil rights uprising,” Ms. Naranjo-Rivera said.The city’s protests in June were largely about local policing, with crowds denouncing a criminal justice system that disproportionately harms Black people and a Portland Police Bureau that has embraced aggressive tactics to contain unruly crowds. Police chief, Black leaders decry violence, vandalism to police precinct, NE Portland businesses, calling actions ‘evil’ Updated Jun 27, 2020; Posted Jun 26, 2020 16 She was arrested on Thursday by local police after breaking caution tape the police had put up to close two locked parks next to the federal courthouse.Ms. A police vehicle was set fire several blocks from the precinct, on South Portland Ave. near the entrance to Fort Greene Park, said a Daily News reporter at the scene.