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| Subject: As indeed they should: After Proud Boys Leave Portland, Police Return to a Familiar Approach: Scattering Black Lives Matter Protesters Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:27 am | |
| A coordinated law enforcement response to a Sept. 26 rally of the Proud Boys received widespread praise for defusing a volatile situation in North Portland. Officers led by Oregon State Police isolated the right-wing group far from most counterprotesters, issued criminal citations to people who brought unlicensed weapons to the event, and successfully ushered most of the visiting militants out of town without incident.
But much of that goodwill dissipated late Saturday night, when the same police used a remarkable amount of force to scatter Black Lives Matter protesters in downtown Portland.
Shortly before midnight, police declared a protest outside the Multnomah County Justice Center an unlawful assembly and began dispersing protesters through the city.
They pushed protesters away from the Justice Center, down various streets in downtown. At times, a line of police officers would sprint through downtown yelling, "Move, move!" to separate and disperse demonstrators throughout the area. Some protesters said they were pepper-sprayed by police as they were forced to run. Others were pushed back with batons as officers rushed toward them.
Police said they were responding to leftist protesters throwing rocks and full drink cans at them. And the crackdown came only three nights after rioters at a Black Lives Matter protest hurled several Molotov cocktails into police lines.
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2020/09/27/after-proud-boys-leave-portland-police-return-to-a-familiar-approach-scattering-black-lives-matter-protesters/
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