Posted on 06/26/2022 5:26:59 PM PDT by Morgana
Crowds dressed in black descended on the city of Portland on Saturday night as part of a nationwide “Night of Rage” staged to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to return abortion law to individual states, potentially limiting access to the procedure that was previously guaranteed federally by Roe v. Wade.
The Portland Police Bureau stated that the protesters damaged numerous businesses, but law enforcement was reportedly unable to intervene.
Several protesters were arrested after the demonstration became violent, according to the Hill:
Authorities in Oregon arrested 10 protesters who were part of a large crowd supporting abortion rights after the demonstration turned violent.
Nine people were charged with disorderly conduct including one person who was additionally charged with escape in the third degree and resisting arrest. One person was charged with harassment.
Police reportedly tried to disperse the crowd after protesters began hurling smoke bombs and filled water bottles at officers. Officials said officers began making arrests but members of the crowd resisted, some of them violently. Officers began shooting inert pepperballs at the feet of the protesters, the department added, which eventually broke up the demonstration.
“If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either,” a flier posted at the site of the protest read.
Police in the city of Eugene, Oregon, said in a news release that protesters clashed with officers and threw smoke bombs during the demonstration at a pregnancy center on Friday night.
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Now they are being arrested left and right. I love it
It seems like the biggest freak outs are in states where abortion will still be legal...
The next several months are going to be a rough ride.
Oregon also legalized all forms of drugs “for personal” use so they have become feral in my opinion.
I’m glad I wasn’t aborted. Aren’t you?
What could go wrong?...
“If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either,”
and just remember, if we’re not safe, neither are you...
Maybe they realize something we don’t...
No, they’re just drug addled, woke, and three standard deviations to the left on a Gaussian IQ distribution.
Yeah, true, but their Fed protection has been taken away now - lots easier to change things at state level. One-issue voters and candidates are more successful.
..It’s despicable,” Sam Adams said in the report. “We need more police.”"
While reverently genuflecting near the mayor, did sam have his knee pads on??
Gotcha, that could prove to be interesting.
We’ll see.
No big deal. They’ll be out by noon on Monday, all charges dropped. Gotta love Portland.
Make them happy sterilize them
Have they been released yet? I bet they have.
Have they been released yet? I bet they have.
They’d riot in Portland if the local coffee houses ran low on soy milk for their lattes.
How is that different from any other night in Portlandia?
They’re not protestors, they’re not activists. They’re domestic terrorists.
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