Portland police arrest 27 as U.S. city nears 100 days of protests

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Demonstrations against racism and police brutality have swept the United States since the death of George Floyd in May.

“Officers began to make targeted arrests and in some cases moved the crowd back and kept them out of the street,” according to a press release issued on Saturday.Demonstrations against racism and police brutality have swept the United States since the death in May of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

In Rochester, New York on Friday night nearly 1,000 demonstrators marched downtown to protest the March death of black man Daniel Prude in police custody. Police used pepper balls to clear protesters during protests the night before, according to local news reports.Article content continuedtap here to see other videos from our teamPortland has become the epicentre of demonstrations, with protests taking place nightly over the last three months calling for policing and social justice reforms.

Police shot and killed a self-declared anti-fascist activist in Washington state on Thursday night as they moved in to arrest him on suspicion he fatally shot a right-wing counterprotester last weekend in Portland. The administration of President Donald Trump deployed federal forces to Portland in July to crack down on the protests. Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that threatens to cut federal funding to “lawless” cities, including Portland.

His Democratic challenger in the Nov. 3 presidential election, Joe Biden, has accused Trump of stoking violence with his rhetoric.

 

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27. 😄

The left down there are lying their faces off and people are buying it just like here in Canada

You misspelled “riots”.

Thousands of arrests but no charges laid because the Democrat AG refuses. Now Deputized Federal agents are doing the arresting and charging and the Antifa scumbags will be going to jail.

You can just just say violence. Just saying.

You mean 'riots and murders'.

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