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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As much as the Democrats support rioting, they can't afford the drop in the polls, especially from black voters who bore the brunt of the riots that were hosted in a large part by white leftist drug addicts.
They really do believe that it’ll be contraception and marriage rights next. Doesn’t matter that the decision listed that those things have Constitutional protection whereas murder does not. They don’t think the precedent will stand with, “the radically conservative court” (how is 5-4 radical? Thanks, Roberts.)
Most didn’t read the decision though, so they REALLY believe those rights will be taken away, y’know, just because. I have little faith in government, but I don’t foresee marriage and birth control going anywhere. Literally nobody is fighting for that, and they wouldn’t have any legal standing to do so anyway.
Ah, Leftists. Collectivists and therefore Lemmings by nature, incapable of seeing the larger picture.
Now they know how we feel about our guns.
As they announced the Multnomah County Jail no longer releases mugshots. It was “racist” and they did it to protect the antifa thugs. Jerks.
Anything in Portland is an excuse for a night of rage and violence it would be a great place foe a ghost town.
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