Portland police made multiple arrests as protesters marked May Day with broken glass and graffiti.
The nearly ritualized affair began after 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 1, as no more than 150 black-clad protesters gathered at Shemanski Park on Southwest Park Avenue. Spontaneous chants of “f— press” broke out as members of the group confronted several independent journalists.
“If you support anarchy you’d put your camera down and have a hell of a lot more fun,” one hoarse voice in the crowd yelled. “There’s like 12 anarchists and a f— ton of press.”
But it was windows, not cameras, that ended up getting smashed as the crowd departed the park and marched past City Hall into downtown Portland.
After holding far-left events for May Day in Portland, #antifa shut down the roads at night & smashed up buildings again. Police declared a riot. At the same time, another antifa mob attacked the @ICEgov facility. Two of them threatened cops with knives. https://t.co/n6nDnCY7VP pic.twitter.com/bKs8MbSDxV
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2021
Authorities declared an unlawful assembly over a crackling public address system as soon as a Starbucks coffee shop’s windows were smashed, and subsequently declared a riot after a second Starbucks received a similar treatment. In all, a third Starbucks near Pioneer Courthouse Square also had its windows broken. A window was shattered at Spa Sasse on Southwest Alder Street as well, and someone spraypainted “Happy May Day” on the side of a Hilton hotel, though this was hardly the only evidence of fresh paint to be seen.
Officers on bicycles and the rapid response “alpha squad” then made at least two targeted arrests as the demonstrators returned to Shemanski park. One protester using a Portland Loo found themselves stuck behind police lines as officers chucked away their shield propped outside the public toilet.
Three separate Starbucks sustained window damage. The Hilton sustained graffiti on the wall during the riot in Downtown Portland. pic.twitter.com/GvreRDDv9U
— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) May 2, 2021
Court documents have not yet been filed for the May 1 arrests, though police have credited an “undercover law enforcement officer” with observing and communicating to uninformed officers the identity of a man arrested for smashing the windows of a Starbucks on April 20, according to a probable cause affidavit. An arrest made during an April 16 demonstration was based on the report of “a person known” by Detective Sean Macomber.
Weapons and body armor from the person arrested downtown on SW 4th Ave between Jefferson and Columbia Streets. Michael Isaacs, 26, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of Menacing and Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree. pic.twitter.com/a4oPcy2CXU
— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) May 1, 2021
Around 50 protesters also gathered that night outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Southwest Portland, drawing a visible presence from federal officers. Several peaceful rallies and marches were held earlier in the day, though one daytime march to ICE heated up after a motorist slammed into several people in the crowd while driving into a nearby apartment building’s underground parking garage.
Someone just drove through the crowd at ICE hitting people #PortlandProtests pic.twitter.com/4tb1Gmzwnv
– it_ain’t_pretty_ (@it_aint_pretty_) May 2, 2021
A counter protest planned for noon at City Hall fizzled, with only one conservative in attendance. He was ID’d by police as Michael Isaacs, 26, after being arrested on charges of menacing and second-degree disorderly conduct.
The first day of May, though not much celebrated here in America, is known as International Workers’ Day throughout much of the rest of the world.
Some faces of Antifa….
Portland #antifa leader Phoebe A. Loomis, 37, was arrested at the May Day riot & charged w/a felony. She was quickly released w/o bail. She was previously convicted for her role at another May Day riot in 2017. She has an antifa gang tattoo on her chest. https://t.co/dRctjnTle8 pic.twitter.com/CPzR8ZQ830
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2021
The knife-wielding man with the death stare is Portland far-left activist, Charles Ernest Stubbs. He's a Juggalo who was arrested at the #antifa Red House Autonomous Zone (RHAZ) last year. pic.twitter.com/DvroPXcYTf
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 3, 2021
Vietnamese-American #antifa member Quang Thien Nguyen, of Kent, WA, traveled to Portland to riot on May Day. He's charged w/crimes including a felony, but was quickly bailed out. He was arrested at an #antifa riot in Nov in Seattle but had charges dropped. https://t.co/et4VGgusR4 pic.twitter.com/YpXKukx5tl
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2021
Jeremiah Day, 22, threatened police w/a knife at the Portland #antifa May Day riot outside the @ICEgov facility. He tried to escape on foot. He was charged w/11 criminal offenses, including a felony, but was quickly released without bail. #AntifaMugshots https://t.co/J8VlIbwAg6 pic.twitter.com/OL6CZi7y61
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2021
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May Day for Portland is aka Communist Day for the communists / rioters / anarchists in Portland.
I often wonder, which dunce in congress, FIRST ALLOWED may day protests to even come into being??
I think the Portland police, or whatever is left of them, should get themselves a manure canon to help persuade the protestors to move on
How’s about take a few hundred paint ball pellets, and FILL THEM UP with concentrated Skunk musk/wolverine musk.. OR better yet, stop shooting with just pepperballs, and USE TRANQ DARTS!
Anti-White thugs attack White people that peacefully protest against the genocidal policy of mass third-world immigration and FORCED assimilation for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries. If anti-White ideas are so good, why do they require street violence to make sure nobody will object? It’s obvious that Antifa really only wants White Genocide.
AND you never ever, hear them say “THIS asian nation needs to allow mass unfettered immigration. OR this arab nation needs to….
“Quickly released without bail after previous conviction”
“Arrested last year”
“Quickly bailed out after being arrested in November and having charges dropped”
“Quickly released without bail”
Gosh, I wonder why Portland is still being looted and burned.
Makes you wonder, WHY EVEN HAVE judges, state/city DAs and such, if they are just going to KEEP RELEASING arrested thug, without charges… AND if they are not needed, why then have LAW MAKERS, since its obvious the laws they make are NOT BEING enforced.
That says it all.
Who cares what happens any more in Portland – do you care? Big Media does not care. Democrats no longer care. The people of Portland obviously don’t care, even after over a year of this BS by Antifa thugs, so why even bother sending in the police? What a bunch of morons to let themselves be abused and humiliated by that not even human trash, just humanity’s excreta, dominating their lives?
Wait – didn’t the lefty pinko commie thugs get the memo that Starbucks is on THEIR side?
THEY DO NOT CARE.. Never have.