Riot declared as fire burns in Portland police union offices

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39. It was bound to happen...

Things were starting to calm down once the feds left. Then a group decided to hold a protest in front of a local law enforcement building instead of the federal courthouse, and the local sheriff's office overreacted, declaring an "illegal assembly" when there was nothing remotely threatening going on, and using excessive force on protesters (and the media) to drive them away from the building and pursue them into a residential area. Since then, the protests have moved on to the PPB and Multnomah Sheriff's Department, and have been met by the same hair-trigger response night after night. Tensions have been mounting for the past week, and I'm not surprised this happened. While people were (rightly) focusing on the federal presence throughout July, the fact remains that local LE in Portland has a pretty bad track record of having "friendly" ties to the Proud Boys and other white nationalist groups, and has been (justly, if one looks at the news coverage) accused of a double-standard when it comes to strict treatment of leftist groups while taking a far more tolerant attitude to far-right groups.