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Mourners pause to remember Kevin Peterson Jr., the 21-year-old Black man who was fatally shot
Thursday in the Hazel Dell community of Vancouver by Clark County law enforcement. The candlelight
vigil was outside of the Hazel Dell branch of U.S. Bank where the shooting took place. (AP photo)
Tensions Boil into Unrest
Vancouver reeling after deputies kill man
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A family photo shows Kevin Peterson Jr., the man killed Thursday in
a confrontation with Clark County Sheriff’s deputies.
marched through downtown Van-
couver. Windows were shattered,
flags were burned and federal
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Tensions boiled over into un-
rest in Vancouver over the week-
end after a young Black man was
shot and killed by Clark County
sheriff’s deputies.
When hundreds of Black Lives
Matter mourners gathered Friday
night for a candlelight vigil in Ha-
zel Dell, an unincorporated area
north of Vancouver, they were
confronted by right-wing protest-
ers supporting police.
Video recorded by journal-
ists of a parking lot where fami-
ly and friends say Peterson was
shot Thursday night, showed two
groups of people shouting at each
other. Also, some armed dem-
onstrators were gathered near a
building that they told reporters
they were protecting.
The crowds ultimately fizzled
out near the vigil but a group
of hundreds of protesters later
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Protesters shattered windows at downtown Star-
bucks and at Portland State University Monday in a
protest billed as a “direct action” march in the name
of a Black man who was shot and killed by campus
police two years ago. The violence came despite
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A shattered window at the Starbucks
on Southwest Montgomery Street near
Portland State University was one of
several targets of protesters Monday.