Posted on 03/12/2021 9:47:23 AM PST by USA Conservative
A large crowd gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland for a protest against police violence.
The demonstration began around 8:30 p.m. outside the courthouse on Southwest Third Avenue and Main Street, shortly after the fence surrounding the courthouse was taken down for the first time since last summer.
When the courthouse doors were being boarded up, tensions between people and federal officers there erupted. This started a chain reaction of civil unrest and destruction Thursday night, leading authorities to deploy tear gas.
Shortly after 9 p.m., independent journalists tweeted images of smashed windows, burning flags, and walls of the courthouse spray-painted with graffiti. One of our followers witnessed federal officers using tear gas and projectiles to control the crowd he took a video that looks like it's straight from a war-zone.
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(video uploaded on the site)
The attack on the courthouse came one day after authorities removed fencing initially erected over the summer, in response to continued riots following the death of George Floyd, an African American man killed during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers.
Footage showed the rioters attempting to force their way into the courthouse while chanting “f*** the United States!” Later in the evening rioters set a fire outside the courthouse entrance.
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has requested that city officials approve $2 million in funding to bring back police patrols following a large spike in crime rates
So the Democrats call Jan. 6th insurrection and placed a razor wire around our nation’s capital but have continued to ignore ANTIFA/BLM who are literally BURNING federal buildings and committing REAL violence.
Well, Antifa is just an idea!
It’s like one of them Insurrection type things. I imagine the authorities will take it super seriously and arrest hundreds of people and line them all up for long prison terms. That’s how it works, right?
It was after dark, so it’s OK according to the AG.
How does an Idea and Peaceful Protesting end up like this?
Democrats not only condone this behavior but support it. I will never believe they’re not out to destroy my country.
The militant arms of the radical anarchist left are in for a rude awakening.
They (like Cuomo) were a “foil” to Trump so they had some benefit to the left who wanted to get rid of Trump and promote a narrative of a nation in anarchy.
Now what the real power of the left is in control they will squash them like a bug.
The democrats in Portland Oregon are not doing what they were elected for. The slobs are sitting back and allowing total insurrection. The people in Oregon should wake up and stop voting democrat. There is no place in this nation where Republicans sit back and allow this crap. No Place!!!
Natch'. So it must be Q'ers there in Portland.
It looks like a fiery but peaceful protest.
These are Good Domestic Terrorists.
Nothing will happen.
Why is MSM silent about antifa?
At some point the Democrats will realize that the Brownshirts they’ve empowered are going to come for them - since they are now running the federal government.
The question, at this point, is whether Democrats will even have the political power to stop them. When you play with fire, you often can get burned.
Get some!
macht nichts
They should all be deported, if they hate the United States so much.
I realize, though, that most of them are probably well-off and white. They won life’s lottery, as Dana Perino would say, because they were born in the United States.
Welcome to the NWO.
God help us when the citizens rise up and do what needs to be done.
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