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‘City of Roses’
Volume XLV
Number 46
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Wednesday • November 16, 2016
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Portland police make an arrest after a protest against Donald Trump and his win in the presidential election against Hillary Clinton turns into a riot.
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Rattled Trump
Turmoil erupts on Portland’s streets after election
by M ichAel l eighton
p ortlAnd o bserver e ditor
Thousands of people stunned by Donald
Trump’s win in the presidential election set
off on a week of daily protests in Portland
that were mostly peaceful but also tinged
with some of the largest and most destruc-
tive protests against Trump in the country.
Hillary Clinton won Oregon, but suffered
a staggering and unexpected defeat nation-
ally.
“Trump is going to be president, so we
need to prepare for that,” Greg McKelvey
of the group Portland’s Resistance, said
Monday.
McKelvey, a black community activist,
law student and member of Don’t Shoot
PDX, is the leader of the newly formed
Portland’s Resistance group, a coalition of
civil and human rights activists who have
sponsored many of the protests.
He called the group part of a movement
“born as a direct response to the election
of a racist, homophobic, misogynistic, ego-
maniacal and dangerously reactive presi-
dent.”
On Monday, the sixth straight day of
demonstrations in Portland since the Nov.
8 election, saw hundreds of students take a
day off from school to gather in the rain to
protest in front of Portland City Hall before
moving across the east side of the city via
the Hawthorne Bridge as officers stopped
traffic.
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