Protests continue in Portland, Oregon two months after the death of George Floyd. “There’s not a lot of things people like us can do,' a protestor said.
early Friday morning, pushing through the streets to disperse crowds approaching the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in a running battle of tear gas, fireworks and pepper spray, the surreal atmosphere exacerbated by multiple people playing the"Imperial Death March" from"Star Wars" on portable speakers.
The violence unfolded only a day after Mayor Ted Wheeler tried Wednesday night to talk protesters down. Hours later, he was tear-gassed by federal officials alongside activists after a small number of the thousand-person crowd threw flaming garbage over the fence. Trump said he sent in the federal agents to restore order across Portland, arguing that Wheeler hasn't done enough to rein in protesters. Speaking on FOX News Thursday, the president called Wheeler's presence at the protest"pathetic" because the mayor is so unpopular among protesters demanding change from the city's police department.
For more than an hour on Thursday evening, activist Edreece Phillips, 48, a Black hip-hop artist who's been protesting for weeks, had been keeping protesters and sightseers off the fence enclosing the federal courthouse. He said he'd talked to federal officials earlier in the day and said they'd agreed that if protesters stayed back, agents would stay inside the courthouse.
"I am sick of you doing this," Phillips yelled to the protester, who was dressed in all black, goggles atop his head and a respirator dangling from his neck."I have warned you already. I'm sick of it."
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