The History of the Portland Protest Movement

After weeks of declining numbers, more than a thousand portlanders showed up outside the justice centre to shoot commercial great fireworks at its windows. They fired a few at the adjacent federal court house as well. Suddenly, wooden hatches opened up on the front of the fortress like building and the federal agents inside began tossing out tier gas grenades and shooting impact munitions into the crowd. The first fence war between protesters and police lasted most of june. There were occasional protests at other police buildings like the p p, a, headquarters of the portland police union, and the north precinct. Smaller groups of activists also engaged in what was briefly a nation wide practice of pulling down statueso famous white suprem