Portland sees largely peaceful night of protests with more than 1,000 demonstrators as feds prepare to withdraw | Fox News
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Via: pat-wilson • 4 years ago • 58 commentsBy: Vandana Rambaran (Fox News)
This article from FOX ( no less) is to counterbalance the hysterical seeded story about the Portland protests currently stinking up NT.
A lone firework was thrown across the fence and at the courthouse, where officers stood guard inside and other demonstrators pleaded with the crowd to remain non-violent.
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Portland protests remained largely peaceful Friday night as over a thousand demonstrators gathered in front of downtown's courthouse, as federal officers stepped back amid a deal to eventually withdraw from the city.
Usually a hotspot for violent clashes with law enforcement, demonstraters instead congregated outside of Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Oregon, with balloons, flags, and painted signs chanting "Black Lives Matter."
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A demonstrator raises her fist while listening to a speech during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Portland, Ore. After days of clashes with federal police, the crowd outside of the federal courthouse remained peaceful Thursday night. (AP)
The scene was in stark contrast to previous nights in the over 60 days of protests in the same spot following the death of George Floyd, where demonstrators pelted police with bottles, fireworks and other projectiles and attacked the fence around the courthouse, setting fires around the area and police deploying pepper spray to disperse crowds.
Since Democratic Gov. Kate Brown announced federal officers would begin a "phased withdrawal" from the city as part of an agreement with Trump's Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, the city has remained notably less angst-filled.
Isolated pockets of disturbance punctuated the otherwise calm movement after midnight Saturday, and protesters were quick to chastize rogue actors.
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A demonstrator burns an American flag outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse late Friday night during the protest on July 31, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by ALISHA JUCEVIC/AFP via Getty Images)
A lone firework was thrown across the fence and at the courthouse, where officers stood guard inside and other demonstrators pleaded with the crowd to remain non-violent.
Later, some agitators burned Bibles and flags outside the courthouse and set a series of fires. Other protesters helped to put out at least one of those fires in an effort to keep the peace.
A group identified as "Firefighters for Black Lives Matter" gathered in a small park a couple of miles west of the courthouse. Another group, "Unemployed Workers for Black Lives" began to march towards the federal building around 8 p.m. People stood next to a makeshift memorial, with the pictures and names of Black people killed by police, at the Waterfront Park. A parade of cars with Black Lives Matter signs taped to their windows slowed traffic in the city.
A crowd gathers during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Portland, Ore. After days of clashes with federal police, the crowd outside of the federal courthouse remained peaceful Thursday night. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Just after midnight, the crowd had grown to over 1,000 people who remained outside chanting "Black Lives Matter" and shouting the names of Black people killed by police. Groups were also standing together engaging in conversations about social injustice.
President Trump had sent officers from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to protect federal property in the city but the move only heightened the angst and violence in the city, which was already reeling from months of demonstrations.
Brown said that once federal agents clear the city, Oregon State Police would be the primary law enforcement body with a presence in the city.
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This is more in line with reality.
Beg to differ - this is reality.
If this is true, then it is nothing but the calm before the storm, and it will be a sizable one I am sure.
The article I seeded is about an event from five days ago. It has nothing to do with what has happened in the intervening days until today.
Aw... Pat!
Why don't you choose seeds that are extra-lucid?
Narrow-angle photos are s-o-o-o cool!
Those burning flags and bibles are more in line with outside agitators.
They are few and far between.
Meaning it only takes a few to create sensational stories.
Portland had it's most shootings in a month in July in three decades..
Very peaceful.
Fox News thought so.
July ended with flag and Bible burnings.
Hysterical, MAGA.
Pure hysteria.
Pithy.
Very pithy.
Fits on a bumper-sticker.
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Has no value... but...
Pithy!
Flag burning is protected speech and I've read the bible. No loss there.
Sure is, and so is my absolute distain for people who do it.
Supporting book burning .,.
nazi and progressive, sharing values.
They'll print more.
If only the mayor and governor had used City and state law enforcement persons to maintain law and order on their streets around federal buildings in the first place, there would never have been a need to send in law enforcement reinforcements from federal law enforcement agencies to protect federal buildings and persons working in them.
So you're contradicting the Fox News article ? Got it.
5.1 and 5.2.1 I don't see what you're saying as you must be one of those on my ignore list. Spend your time elsewhere.
6.1 see 6
Locking for intermission.
Well, as predicted that didn't take long.
After a short break to fill up on Red Bull and Hot Pockets, the worthless anarchists are back.
That anyone ever attempts to defend these worthless little turds is hard to believe.
Maybe ^^you all ^^ should seed an article about the CURRENT state of affairs in Portland. This article is about an event there 5 DAYS AGO.
Again, as per your own seeded article.
The 60 days are the reality, not the one day the rioters hid to get the Feds who were cracking down on them to leave.
Soon as the Feds left the rioters were back out in force; proving the 1 day of "mostly peaceful protests" was a ruse.
Here’s the key to peaceful protest in that city....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUgbVvbTWZ4
12.1 you're only a gray palm in a circle