I’m late to this thread because last night I was too busy celebrating Oregon beating Stanford to worry about protestors in Weird (in their minds) Portland. I am currently in Maryland, so the party was pretty late.
I grew up in Eugene, adult years there in the ‘70’s until I had to leave the state in 1981, when the jobs situation in much of Oregon was as bad, or worse, than now. I knew many of the early generation of black hat anarchists and earth first activist types who lived in Eugene or spent a lot of time there.
Have you heard anything about the crowd from the Eugene area showing up in Portland? They would be the types who would come for the action with the police.
Nothing specific about Eugene.
One idiot from Redding came up last week and threw a Molotov. He's in jail on $1M bail.
Some of the Seattle Anarchists showed up but didn't get to play with the police.
All in all, it was pretty boring for anyone who wanted a fight with the police. The Police didn't give an excuse to make a fight and anyone who was trying to provoke them got bored and went home.
Its over. There was no "Kent State" moment.
They did it right.