Protests in the City of Portland

Thousands would attend each night, and the atmosphere began to resemble a strange nightly festival ending in the wee hours of the morning with assaults by federal officers. A man with a gas mask and a hockey stick showed up one night to knock canisters away. Teams of people with litta cross sticks followed. When lines of federal agents pushed forward, launching gas grenades. Walls of protesters would now regularly toss the rounds back into and behind the fed lines. Protesters behind them used leaf blowers to direct the gas back at the court house,. squads of medics in the rear treated people as they rotated in anowt of the front lines.