Federal officers on Thursday drove demonstrators away from the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland after members of the crowd started a fire and damaged the building.
Dozens of demonstrators assembled near the courthouse Thursday night. Some of those gathered started a fire and broke glass at the courthouse, according to reports from the scene.
Antifa set fire to the federal courthouse in downtown Portland. There are people inside. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/9sxBZkDe2t
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 12, 2021
Following an attempted storming of the federal courthouse in Portland on Thursday afternoon after the protective fence was removed, #antifa returned at night & set the building on fire. https://t.co/MZ6ywhKfS4
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 12, 2021
#Antifa tried to smash their way into the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/f3MJltcZ7m
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 12, 2021
Federal officers responded by deploying impact munitions, tear gas and smoke bombs, according to livestreams and independent journalists documenting the demonstration.
The officers drove protesters away from the courthouse before deploying the tear gas, according to reports. Afterward, officers could be heard on loudspeakers asking people not to set fire to the courthouse or otherwise damage the building.
Tensions soon escalated a second time, with demonstrators breaking courthouse windows and setting another fire outside the building.
Federal officers immediately shot crowd control munitions at someone who tried to break a window, then made an announcement ordering people off the property.
Officers then deployed more tear gas to push demonstrators away, according to reports, and at least one person had been detained as of 10:40 p.m.
Officers drove protesters away from the building once more shortly after 11 p.m.
Some demonstrators appeared to have been continuing protest efforts from earlier in the day, when a group gathered in opposition to the replacement and expansion of an oil pipeline that would go from the Canadian province of Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
"…may result in retaliatory action by the demonstrators."
Ahead of tonight's pre-announced #antifa riot in Portland's Pearl District, the neighborhood association has sent out a warning to the community. It tells people to stay indoors after 7 p.m. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/xsfU9SVpZv
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 12, 2021
Protesters say the new corridor would harm watersheds, wild rice lands and Anishinaabe treaty territories. They argue corporations should clean up an existing, old pipeline.
The demonstration also came after workers put wooden boards on windows of the courthouse earlier Thursday.
Earlier in the day:
“F— the United States!” Antifa try to break into the federal courthouse in Portland. Federal officials just removed the barricades protecting the building after months of #antifa attacks on the building. Now they’re back again. #PortlandRiots
pic.twitter.com/vBq28J5skl— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 11, 2021
#Antifa and other far-left rioters in Portland tried to break into the @Chase bank. A lone security guard tried holding them back. He pulled out a pistol during the mob attack. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/Sw3SU8PO0A
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 12, 2021
On 11 March, #antifa rioters attacked several banks & tried to storm the Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland. Darby Marshall Howard, 22, of Montana, was arrested. He punched an officer in the face. He was quickly released & was arrested again at night. https://t.co/5goYowsUFZ pic.twitter.com/gSklspeiWX
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 12, 2021
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eventually these rioters are gonna have to be put down.
THAT SHOULD have been done, the 2nd day they rioted last year… You can BET THE BIDEN admin won’t DARE do that.
What make you think so. The DOJ, DNC, are letting this happen. Just like they let the Trump rioters thru the doors at the Capitol so they could tar the entire Trump rally as an “insurrection”. They’re all in on it. This last year has been an inside attack on American liberty by the Democrats, Media and deep state bureaucrats to finish the coup they start January 2017.
AND since this occurred in Portlandigrad, where we’ve already SEEN JUST how criminal coddling the DA and AG are, what makes anyone thing a SINGLE ONE Of these rioters will even get ARRESTED.. let alone charged with anything?
Boy, that guy in the photo above sure is cute, with the tattoos on his face. I wonder if this clown goes by the gender “it”? Also, I thought all of the rioting was going to stop, once Trump was out of office.
IT imo, will just KEEP GOING ON, so long as NO ONE WITH A SPINE, does a damn thing to stop it.
The communist occupier scum in the cesspool / swamp on both sides of the fictitious isle wont do anything in hopes “we the people” will finally get fed up and start defending our selves to start a civil war… a great excuse to confiscate the guns. These chunks of dung are so evil satan wont except them in hell in fear of them taking over.
As long as they riot …er…protest, mostly peacefully, at night they are not domestic terrorists, according to Homeland Security.
I betcha these, “mostly peaceful protests”, wouldn’t be classified as that if they were burning down a Dem’s house or storming the Capitol in full antifa gear and flying their flags…But we all know that will never happen. And Biden’s “Homeland Security”, is definitely a misnomer now!
Just like it’s no longer the dept of justice, its the dept of INJUSTICE, the “dept of homeland security, is now the dept of INSECURITY.
biden is a racist
Are the Oregon National Guard Units in DC?
They are NEEDED AT HOME!
Their families and employers NEED THEM a lot more than the crybaby politicians do.
THEIR governor, and portland’s mayor are TOO MUCH OF A WIMP< to have the guard do what is NECESSARY…
By this time it appears ever more plausible that Antifa is a covert arm of the Democrats and the Oregon/Portland government. So the question to ask is what the Democratic leaders there want to accomplish? One answer follows from Biden’s pledge to allocate national funds to rebuild cities damaged by ( likely sanctioned) riots.
This summer created a lot of damage, but damage for the Democrats is really funding opportunities for their supporters. Thus a likely motive for these latest riots was to target high value properties whose reconstruction will benefit big Democratic contributors. Linking targets to who will rebuild them should provide a starting point for reporters.
Its time to give Antifa and BLM their due — a beating
If there are any righteous people left in Portland, they need to leave, don’t look back and let the thermonuclear phenomena occur.
Since they attacked a federal court house is it then an Insurrection??? Remember history ??this same thing happened in Russia back in the early 1900’s and look what they got Communism!! Be careful with what you wish for liberals.
SINCE they are not trump supporters, no it is not going to get classed as an insurrection. HELL THEY STILL REFUSE to count it as a riot.
Had to slap my head again after viewing this – I still can’t believe this is the same country that I was born and raised in. Hell, now I chuckle watching those old war movies where everyone was spouting patriotic epithets and charging live fire pillboxes in order to take some meaningless hill to move the arrow on a map. Now it is just keep moving, nothing here to see. You don’t need those pesky “rights” anyway.
I’d love to see someone do an interview of EVERY WW2 vet Still alive, and ask them all
“SO if back when you enlisted (or got drafted), you could know how this nation would look in 70+ years, WOULD YOU still have gone?”
AND SEE how many still said “YES.”
It looks like the biggest suckers of all will be the ones that put on the uniform and gave their lives defending freedom and liberty in this country. Too Bad. Everything the Democrats in government do, say and stand for is pure evil.