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Sep 4, 2020 · Published 7:09 AM PDT, September 4, 2020. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Once hailed as one of the most livable U.S. cities, Portland, Oregon, is grappling with an uncertain future as it reaches a stunning benchmark: 100 consecutive nights of racial injustice protests marred by vandalism, chaos — and the killing of a supporter of President Donald Trump.
Death (s) 1. Injuries. Unknown. Arrested. 970+ [1] Starting in May 2020, protests following the murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020, many of the protests, which had been held every day since May 28, drew more than 1,000 ...
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As in cities across the county, Portlanders turned out to protest racism and violence in the criminal justice system after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis. After a week of widespread use of tear gas and impact munitions to disperse mostly nonviolent protesters, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining orderagainst the Portland Polic...
The city and protesters agreed to expand the restraining orderbeyond tear gas, to include crowd control devices like pepper spray and rubber bullets. Portland police still continued to use tear gas and impact munitions, but the bar to justify their use was significantly higher. State lawmakers in the Oregon Legislature also passed a law requiring p...
Federal officers started playing a more obvious and active role during nightly protests in Portland, pulling protesters’ attention away from the Multnomah County Justice Center and refocusing it across the street on the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse. That night, federal officers emerged from the boarded-up courthouse to fire pepper balls at d...
Hundreds of protesters gathered around the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse. Fireworks shows across the country, including Portland, had been canceled because of the pandemic, but protesters filled the gap. After more than a month of police using tear gas, impact munitions and flash bang devices to disperse en...
After multiple failed strategies in response to the protests and a continued inability to end the nightly demonstrations, Portland Deputy Chief Chris Davis met with the media. He characterized the protesters as criminals who had co-opted a peaceful movement, a tried and true tacticused by government officials over the decades to delegitimize social...
During a military briefing in Doral, Florida, Trump brought up the federal presence in the city of Portland unprompted. He said he had sent the officers to Oregon because “the locals couldn’t handle it.” "It was out of control," the president said.
Protesters once again gathered at night in the city park across the street from the federal courthouse. They taunted federal officers, telling them to get out of Portland. One demonstrator, 26-year-old Donavan La Bella, stood at the edge of the park closest to the courthouse. He held a boombox over his head with both hands. When a tear gas canister...
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said Trump had a dangerous fixation with strong-arming peaceful protesters. “What America does not need is Donald Trump parachuting federal law enforcement into U.S. cities as if they’re enemy strongholds requiring an occupying army to suppress,” Wyden said. The next day, Sens. Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Reps. E...
In the early morning hours of July 15, video surfaced on Twittershowing two officers in camouflage getting out of an unmarked van. They walked toward a person in a black hoodie and a helmet. Officers put the person’s hands behind their back and walked them back to an unmarked van before driving away. Related: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Ve...
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan told Fox News that Trump was planning an announcement about enhanced federal law enforcement actionsinvolving the Department of Justice and Homeland Security "next week." “We’re going to do what needs to be done to protect the men and women of this country,” he said. Department of Homeland Secu...
Dec 31, 2020 · Pastor J.W. Matt Hennessee of Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church hasn’t seen anything approaching the magnitude of the 2020 protests in his more than 30 years in Portland. He suspects timing ...
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Jul 31, 2020 · portland_318.jpg. Federal authorities fired tear gas to keep the crowd away from the fence. The clouds of gas could drift for several blocks, even as far as the waterfront park where the protests ...
Sep 5, 2020 · The arc of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Oregon’s largest city has varied markedly from June to July to August. ... 2020, 5:13 p.m. 100. 1 / 100. 100 Days of Portland Protests - Top ...
Dec 12, 2023 · PORTLAND, Ore. — A phalanx of federal officers emerged from the U.S. courthouse in downtown Portland on the night of July 18, 2020, and advanced on protesters standing nearby.
