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Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) deployed forces with the state’s National Guard during Wednesday night’s riot — one day after the presidential election. The Guardsman arrived on Portland streets as about 200 began to vandalize businesses in the downtown area.

The Portland Police Bureau will clearly mark police officers’ helmets for identification, the city’s mayor announced. Mayor Ted Wheeler said a number will be “prominently displayed on officers’ helmets during crowd management events.” Mayor Wheeler tweeted on Friday: The Portland

Police officials in Portland, Oregon, ordered a crowd to disperse and stop “stoking the flames” as a fire burned in the street near the federal courthouse.

Police on Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, made a mass arrest of protesters, who they believed were planning to attack a policing center.

Officers arrested four protesters outside the Penumbra Kelly Building in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night after authorities said the crowd became “hostile.”

A police sergeant in Portland, Oregon, was assaulted overnight Monday after a crowd gathered outside the police union building, with the chaos resulting in 24 arrests.

Police made two dozen arrests late Monday night into early Tuesday morning following another violent demonstration in Portland, where protesters sprayed five officers with a chemical irritant and assaulted a Portland police sergeant.

Officers responded to reports of an explosive device in downtown Portland Monday morning, and an investigation is currently underway.

Flames surged in Portland on Wednesday night, after a rioter lit a large Molotov cocktail and threw it at the police.

Two Portland protesters who were arrested as a result of the demonstrations Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning are serial offenders.

A few dozen demonstrators gathered in front of the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct for a “Back the Blue” rally to show support for police officers.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) reprimanded the Portland Police Bureau for publicly defending the use of tear gas, calling it a “serious breach of protocol and an inappropriate use of City communications resources.”

The Portland Police Bureau arrested and then quickly released a man for setting a fire, then re-arrested him for setting six more fires in the wildfire-ravaged state of Oregon.

Several protesters in Portland have been arrested over the last week following night after night of demonstrations, which saw activists hurling projectiles at officers and disrupting public transportation in the area.

The Portland Police Bureau spent millions on overtime over the span of just two months as a result of the nightly riots in the city — a stark irony given the protesters’ demands to defund the police.

A protester at Sunday night’s Black Lives Matter protest in Portland opted to rap his grievances with officers, urging a cop to “fucking rap” and vowing to burn the system “to the ground.”

A turbulent day of riots and violence in Portland turned deadly Saturday night, as a man was shot and killed after an explosion of gunfire.

The nightly violent Antifa riots in Portland have created a backlog of calls for help, including reports of gunfire and assaults.

Nine people were arrested overnight in Portland, Oregon, during a riot outside the North Precinct Community Policing Center.

A man who filmed rioters brutally assaulting another man Sunday in Portland said the incident was “extremely violent.”

An 18-year-veteran of the Portland Police Bureau sat down with an interview with KGW to speak out against the violent protests in Portland, Oregon.

Portland Police clashed with protesters on Friday night into early Saturday morning as demonstrators targeted cops, hurling chunks of concrete and explosives at officers in what the department described as an “extremely dangerous situation.”

Protesters reportedly threw rocks and chunks of concrete at Portland officers Friday night after authorities declared an unlawful assembly.

Rioters threw paint on an elderly woman and harrassed another trying to put out a fire at Portland’s East Precinct on Thursday

Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell called for an end to the almost nightly violent protests in the city during a news conference on Wednesday.

Portland experienced another weekend protests hallmarked by violence toward law enforcement, with one protester hurling a paint-filled glass jar at an officer’s head. 

Over 150 bullets were fired outside a Portland apartment building Friday, hitting at least eight apartments, seven vehicles, and wounding a woman.

A protester in Portland jumped the fence surrounding the federal courthouse on early Wednesday morning and hurled an incendiary device at the building, prompting a response from federal law enforcement. The protester’s actions, as well as the actions of others who hurled projectiles at the courthouse, come as Democrat lawmakers across the country continue to peddle the narrative that the protests across the country are largely “peaceful.”

Portland protesters targeted the federal courthouse again late Monday night, hurling a Molotov cocktail or “similar destructive device” at the building, which “burst into a fireball when it struck the building causing a report to be heard and felt more than a block away,” according to the Portland Police Bureau.

Protests descended into violent chaos yet again in Portland over the weekend as protesters targeted the federal courthouse and reportedly hurled Molotov cocktails toward federal officers.

A high school football coach in Oregon says that he was fired because of his day job, as a police officer.

Portland’s 58th night of protests saw one individual stabbed as demonstrators shot fireworks over the federal courthouse fence, lit fires across the downtown area, and hurled objects at federal law enforcement officers.

The Portland City Council unanimously passed a resolution on Wednesday that effectively bans the Portland Police Bureau from assisting federal law enforcement, as Commissioner Chloe Eudaly accused the Trump administration of “attempting to use Portland as a proving ground for fascism.”

Jakhary Jackson, a black Portland police officer, detailed his experience in responding to the violent protests that have rocked the city over the last several weeks, explaining that many of the protesters “don’t know what they’re saying” and are actively using “the same tactics that were used against my people.”

Violence erupted in Portland late Thursday into Friday morning as a “couple hundred” demonstrators gathered near the Justice Center for a protest that descended into a riot, as participants hurled commercial-grade fireworks, large rocks, and bottles at officers and launched mortars toward the federal courthouse.

Police in Portland, Oregon, quickly tore down a barrier erected by protesters intent on setting up a Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).