Fed up with latest Portland chaos
Protesters smashed up several businesses during the latest night of destruction in Portland, Ore. — with fed-up locals screaming at them to “go home,” according to reports.
Around 150 protesters marched through the troubled City of Roses late Saturday, trashing businesses during “direct action” against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Oregonian said.
“Windows were broken at a grocery store, restaurant, bank, shipping business and multiple coffee shops,” Portland police said of the two-hour rampage.
Targets included a Chipotle, Starbucks and an Urban Pantry, KOIN News said, with social media images showing antiICE graffiti scrawled across numerous buildings, including the ICE building.
A security car was destroyed, according to one video, while another clip showed the mob shining lights at diners as they banged against the windows.
It was the worst violence in weeks in the city, which saw almost constant destruction for periods last year.
Many locals appeared to have had enough. KOIN News reporter Jennifer Dowling caught one resident ticking off a protester shouting, “Police go home,” by yelling, “You go home!”
A shirtless man yelled at the mob from his balcony, “Ten years from now, what are you gonna do? Keep doing the same thing?” according to videographer Brendan Gutenschwager.
Two people — a 17-year-old and 31year-old Darell Kimberlin — were arrested, cops said, adding that the “police response was constrained by multiple shooting incidents happening across the city.”