Riot declared in Portland
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Riot declared in Portland
Police in Portland, Ore. declared that a protest outside of a law enforcement building Saturday evening had become a riot and made numerous arrests after officers and police vehicles were allegedly hit with rocks and other objects.
© Getty Images Riot declared in Portland
A statement on the police bureau's website indicated that further details concerning the number of arrests and charges would come in a later update, but noted that several people had been arrested.
"Portland Police announced to the crowd that its conduct constituted a riot and ordered people to leave to the west. People in the crowd persisted in throwing rocks and other objects," officials said. Photos posted by police on Twitter showed a large rock that officers claimed had been thrown by protesters along with glass bottles, as well as minor damage to a police cruiser.
Protest Blocks Streets, Officers Assaulted, Pelted With Rocks, Glass Bottles, Other Objects (Photo) https://t.co/Kilu4qbnwVpic.twitter.com/Nx5Km0JLGu
- Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 15, 2020
People assault police with projectiles causing injuries - arrests (Photo) https://t.co/TPXdjshBKppic.twitter.com/RHPCQYrXEf
- Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 16, 2020
Police added that two Portland officers were treated for injuries sustained when they were hit by thrown objects, including one that was allegedly thrown by an individual in a crowd of people wearing press badges or other articles of clothing identifying themselves as members of the media.
"Officers reported having rocks, frozen eggs, glass bottles, and frozen water bottles thrown at them. Officers reported people were shining green lasers at them, which is against the law in Oregon. Somebody spray painted over a security camera on the Penumbra Kelly Building," read the police statement.
Protests in Portland have gone on for months over the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Much of the demonstrations have remained peaceful though the city became the focus of national attention after videos emerged of protesters being detained by federal law enforcement agents in unmarked vans, resulting in the protests swelling in size and intensity.
The city's mayor, Ted Wheeler (D), has yet to comment on Saturday night's arrests on social media or in a press release, and a request for a statement from his office was not immediately returned.
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No word yet on when the "peaceful protests" will begin.
Those federal officers getting out of hand again?
Police arrested 13 people as far-right groups rallying in the north-western US city of Portland, Oregon, skirmished with left-wing counter-protesters.
Who attended the rally?
The rally had mainly been promoted by Joe Biggs, a member of the far-right Proud Boys group and former employee of Alex Jones's Infowars .
It follows two years of increasingly violent rallies in Portland, many of which were organised by Joey Gibson, the leader of far-right group Patriot Prayer, who is currently facing criminal charges connected to a right-wing riot outside a bar in May.
Cool and if true put them in the same cell as the left wing rioters they’ve arrested.
It will take care of itself then.
Whether you like or dislike far right groups they know how to have a peaceful rally. It's the far left counter protesters who show up and start the violence. You may have noticed that these far right groups don't show up in large numbers at leftwing protests looking to start fights. The Left can't even keep the peace by themselves they riot and burn for the thrill of it, they are just violent and criminal and they prove it over and over again.
It's the far left counter protesters who show up and start the violence.
The reason I have stayed away from these threads … which I am about to do once again … is the failure of MAGAs to accept reality.
Here is one of your "far left" counter protestors.
Deal with it.
Who is he ? What did he do ? It's just some foolish looking jabroni getting arrested with no explanation. His political views are unknowable by the picture, for all we know he's an escaped mental patient who was running amok.
Just another Democratic run piece of shit city "not burning to the ground" according to the left.
They need to get their Brown Shirts under control or be completely responsible from the damage caused.