The area includes county and federal buildings and has been the site of numerous recent protests. Department of Homeland Security officers moved through the plaza across from an 18-story federal building. A federal courthouse is also near that area.Violent demonstrations have gripped Portland for months, following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
The Saturday afternoon demonstration involving hundreds of people began about noon near the Multnomah County Justice Center, news outlets reported. Demonstrators hurled rocks and other items at each other and got into fights. Streets were blocked amid the mayhem. Right-wing groups had announced a rally near the Justice Center Saturday afternoon that quickly drew counter demonstrators.In a statement, Portland Police said there had been questions about why the afternoon gathering wasn’t declared a riot and why city police officers didn’t intervene. Incident commanders have to determine whether police action will make things more dangerous, the statement said.
“In this case there were hundreds of individuals and many weapons within the groups and an extremely limited amount of police resources actually available to address such a crowd,” police said.
How long before this guy gets his perp-walk? PortlandProtests TrumpLiesAmericansDie TrumpVirusCatastrophe
Those are Proud Boys not the police... oh wait
I’m looking at this photo and laughing about how much time and effort these ass clowns put into constructing and painting their shields. Capt. America hahaha!
Demonstrators should REGROUP around the nearest USPS facility in a TURNABOUT move to protect IT from Trump's 'federal forces'.
riot and rioters
Looks like a bunch of basement dwellers.
How strange——the shield of Captain America held by a Nazi... It’s like that quote goes a bit like “Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you are protesting America.”
Smear campaign ramping up. All Propaganda slowly creeping to blame other side. Put BS props they think we will connect to a boogeyman group that has never done this stupid shit. Expect propaganda to increase quickly
*rioters
Release the Kracken
80+ days into this bullshit...
Quite the dichotomy between the headline and the by-line dontcha think, ?
AP numb skulls --- there is a peaceful night because someone stood up to the hate filled left wing lunatics...the Cops never would
How’s that war torn riot working out for you mayor. Still happy with your decision to jump on the anarchists bandwagon
Protestors with Shields? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
90 days of BLM and Antifa. Nice of you to finally start covering the story. 🤡
This is absurd. All of these people need to go home. They don't even know what they are protesting about at this point.
Tip- don’t identify yourself as a q follower if you want any one with a brain to engage with you.
Enjoy what you vote for.
Read this thread:
Ideological curators, billionaires in their palatial settings; they issue diktat to their administrators, the Democratic deep state who go off & action the request, ID politics their calling card, they lean on the right’s misunderstood hatred for everyone and we are left barren.
What side is Qanon on, and how do they not figure into your piece?
Fake Q protestors. Lawd.. its so obvious. We've been waiting to see who's tweet this first. Rioting for months yet now you post a news story. K
The fascist cops allowed alt-right terrorists to attack and violently riot. They did nothing as their friends, maced, punched, sprayed paintballs and brandished a revolver at BLM protesters. Protesters booted and kick these thugs out themselves. Thread
“oregon’s biggest city” “seemingly fell apart” did TheOnion hack ? what fucking happened to this country? defundinsanity localdisneylandman
Proud BOYS are not too mature. And our trumper police forces support that. We need cleaner, more representative police forces. And get them all on fruits n veg so their brains stay healthy. We need cops with clear heads and eating your vegetables does that.
What sort of protesters ? The article completely disregards who they were. Far right fascists? Antifa? BLM? Worse than useless Something happened but we won’t tell you what
Why is BLM/Antifa cosplaying Q?
‘Protestors’...lol...you mean rioters Also, ‘Portland’ is the name of Oregon’s largest city What’s the matter? You guys too chicken shit to call it like it is?
Antifa raped my sister as she was walking to her apartment last week. We filed a police report and we’ve had no updates!
Tk Later