Posted on 04/24/2021 9:13:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Police in Portland, Oregon, declared a riot in the northwest part of the city late Friday night after rioters began smashing windows, tagging graffiti on buildings and broke into a restaurant.
A resident who was filming the mayhem had a rock thrown through his window by a rioter, police said.
The unrest came after Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler extended the state of emergency in the city through the weekend over possible continued unrest, according to FOX 12 of Oregon.
The Portland Police Bureau said the planned protest that had been billed as an "autonomous demonstration." It started around 9 p.m. PT with around 75 protesters dressed all in black who started vandalizing property around 15 minutes after they began marching from a park near the city's downtown.
Police said they issued dispersal orders that were largely ignored and two people were arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center.
The rioters eventually dispersed, police said.
The riot follows similar unrest this week spurred by the conviction of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the May 2020 death of George Floyd and other fatal police shootings in Minnesota, Ohio and North Carolina.
"Tonight, the anarchists have called for more destruction," Wheeler said in a news conference Friday afternoon announcing the emergency extension, according to KGW-TV in Portland. "I've directed the police bureau to arrest and engage illegal activity whenever they can safely do so."
The emergency declaration, which allows the mayor to issue a curfew or close streets, ends at noon on Monday, FOX 12 reported.
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Mostly peaceful?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out on the field. I thought it was his acquittal that was supposed to spur the riots.
Do you ever feel like we're being manipulated?
Until pantiesinawadfa is machine gunned it is just theatre.
> rioters began smashing windows... <
I’m actually surprised that there were any windows in Portland left to break.
A reaction time of oh I don’t know I’ve lost track of all this by now.
“75 protesters dressed all in black and only TWO arrests”
Absolutely pitiful. How hard would it be to throw up a cordon around the bastards and arrest ALL of them?
I’ve little doubt that the two that were arrested were back out on the streets in a couple of hours. The commie “National Lawyers Guild” keeps getting them released.
Inspector Kemp: (Young Frankenstein)
A riot is an ungly thing... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun.
Always under the cover of darkness. I guess the flames look better then.
Portland is the classic case of doing the same stupid thing over and over again—and expecting different results.
BLM/Antifa are really trying to spark a violent reaction.
BLM/Antifa are really trying to spark a violent reaction.
They’re going to beef-up security with unarmed park rangers.
Grab your popcorn folks.
What classifies as a riot?
Definition. A concerted action: (1) made in furtherance of an express common purpose; (2) through the use or threat of violence, disorder, or terror to the public; and (3) resulting in a disturbance of the peace.
Under common law, the crime of riot requires the assemblage of three or more actors.
riot | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institutehttps://www.law.cornell.edu › Wex
The inept governor Brown and the Portland mayor must be getting PAID OFF to let this destruction continue.
The governor has NEVER imposed a CURFEW and has NEVER used any tactics that would be successful in stopping Antifa/BLM.
The National Guard should be called to this shit city and they should be armed.
Be a shame if they suddenly all “disappeared” one night.
Some big trucks, a battalion of Marines and some C5s to Guamtanamo should do the trick.
The response to the verdict was “Accountability, but NOT justice yet.”
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