PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters and police clashed in downtown Portland in a demonstration that lasted into the predawn hours of Thursday, with some in the crowd setting a fire and exploding commercial grade fireworks outside a federal courthouse that’s been a target in months of conflict for Oregon’s largest city.
Officers used tear gas to break up the crowd of several hundred people who gathered near the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, the neighboring Multnomah County Justice Center and a nearby police precinct station.
To those outside of The Justice Center, this gathering has been declared a riot.
All persons near The Justice Center need to leave by traveling to the north and west. You are ordered to disperse immediately.— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 13, 2020
Unfearful of consequences, antifa rioters move in to fight police in close combat. They are promptly shoved back. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/j9z1vgHU0I
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 13, 2020
Protests have been held nightly in the city since the police killing of George Floyd in May, who died after a white officer pressed a knee to his neck
Protesters hurled rocks, bottles and paint at officers during the demonstration that started Wednesday night and went into Thursday morning, Portland police said in a statement.
Rioters have returned to attacking the federal courthouse in downtown Portland again tonight. They’re throwing lots of projectiles and explosives at the building. They started a fire on the front. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/OEpsM8ovZl
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 13, 2020
Rioters in downtown Portland armed with sticks and batons block random cars from leaving a parking garage. #PortlandRiots #antifa Video by @TheHannahRay. pic.twitter.com/S2ZRYDqL99
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 13, 2020
Antifa in downtown Portland are burning another pig head wearing a cop hat outside the Justice Center. They also burn a Trump flag. Video by @TheHannahRay #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/g5mRQKyStN
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 13, 2020
One officer suffered a hand wound described as serious several other officers suffered non-specified injuries and several people were detained, with one arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a police vehicle, the statement said.
Police rush in to clear rioters from the Portland federal courthouse. #antifa #PortlandRiots Video by @TheHannahRay pic.twitter.com/7CP5JPCbiE
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 13, 2020
The protests in Portland reached their apex last month outside the federal courthouse, with demonstrators clashing nightly with federal agents dispatched to the city to protect the courthouse.
The demonstrations dwindled after a drawdown of the agents, who were replaced by Oregon state troopers. But protests that turned violent re-emerged over the last week, mostly near a police union headquarters building miles from the federal courthouse.
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From the article above: “The demonstrations dwindled after a drawdown of the agents, who were replaced by Oregon state troopers.”??????? Nice try Fake News Associated Press and Fake News Twitter. The riots, looting, destruction of buildings, crime and injuring police officers was going on for at least two months prior to Trump sending in the Feds. Hey Fake News, the airspace between your ears has “dwindled”!!!!!
TIME to not just re-send in the troops, but THIS TIME TELL Them “lock and load.. Once the bullets fly, SEE HOW Swiftly this rioting, stops!”
Can we not dispense with the George Floyd canard. The riots have NOTHING to do with that incident.
“Black Lives Matter” IS NOT about saving black lives. It is a LGBTQ Hate group.
“Yusra Khogali, leader of the “anti-racist” Black Lives Matter movement,
does not hide ……her hatred of white people….. in her comments on social media.
“BLM leader: Whites are subhuman ‘genetic defects’
” Black Lives Matters” has announced that its focuses also include police brutality, transgender rights, gay rights, disrupting the nuclear family and freeing Palestine, among other diverse topics.”
We can see that “Black Lives Matter” IS NOT about saving black lives. It is nothing but a LGBTQ political Hate Con!……Blacks killed by other blacks doesn’t matter, unborn black babies lives don’t matter, blacks that are overdosing on drugs don’t matter and blacks killed by black police don’t matter.
You are being SUCKERED into supporting a Racist LGBTQ Hate organization that is being encouraged and supported by the dishonorable, dishonest hateful Democrat Party.
IF, AND THAT IS A VERY BIG IF black lives really mattered, and the people that support this garbage really cared they would change the name, and redirect their efforts.
FIBLMM would make more sense and actually become more popular with WE, THE PEOPLE.
Fathers
In
Black
Lives
Matters
More!
PROVE ME WRONG!
IT never has, and never will… IT is just an INSURRECTIONIST movement, started by anti american traitors..
I don’t know why the people in the jeep didn’t drive at 11 miles per hour nonstop and keep driving right over everyone in their way.
too slow, 35 is better.
Even better is a sudden cessation in hostilities caused my MISTING the rioters with a fine spray of diesel/gasoline mixture, and give them 5 minutes before the match is lit.
Be surprising how calm it would be.
or, as a less fun, but MORE EXCITING TO WATCH would be the firetrucks with water cannons come around the corner, wash their feet out from under them, then flush then=m down to the next intersection.
Crumpled up, bloodied from scraping the pavement and knocking heads with others.
By that next intersection they will be very docile.
But governments never like plans THAT WORK…. PERMANENTLY
How’s about equip those trucks with FLAME THROWERS!
Guess they weren’t getting the attention they wanted. Another try to entice the Feds to come out and take action. No way the Mayor and Governor should be allowing this to continue, they’re declaring the events riots. Jail them and stop letting them get bail, let alone dropping charges. Every last one of them that throws anything at the fed courthouse, should immediately be charged with federal crime, and stop having the police not cooperate with them.
STOP arresting them. JUST DROP BODIES like cordwood.
ALL LIVES MATTER–anything less is totally racist
I can’t understand why the police don’t have water cannons to quell the rioters. Can you imagine the damage to their egos when they loose their soaking wet smartphones?
Well looking on Quora and other sites (Such as howitworks), it seems the practice was stopped back in the early 90s, cause SO many folks whined, griped and complained it was “inhumane”, and compared it to the quelling of blacks in the 60s, so too MANY cities and states, caved INTO them… That’s why they are no longer used. CAUSE the powers that be, handed the rioters their backbones.