The BulleTin • Sunday, april 18, 2021 A3
TODAY
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
PORTLAND
Protesters light fires, smash
windows; police declare riot
BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
A group of protesters in
downtown Portland lit fires,
smashed the windows of busi-
nesses, a church and the Or-
egon Historical Society, and
caused other various damage
during a destructive demon-
stration Friday night and early
Saturday.
Someone also fired several
gunshots from a car traveling
a block away from the protest
crowd early Saturday. No one
was hurt.
Police declared the demon-
stration a riot late Friday,
marking the third time in five
days the bureau had made
such an announcement. Offi-
cers arrested at least four peo-
ple amid the melee that had
drawn several hundred peo-
ple, the Portland Police Bu-
reau said in a statement.
“Our community has made
it clear that it will not tolerate
wanton violence and destruc-
tion,” Acting Chief Chris Davis
in the statement. “None of this
destruction tonight has any-
thing to do with the import-
ant work of racial justice and
reconciliation our community
and our nation need at this
critical time in our history.”
The downtown damage
also came on the heels of a
fatal police shooting earlier
Friday in Southeast Portland
but was carried out as part of
a previously scheduled “au-
tonomous demonstration” in
the name of people killed in
recent police shootings na-
tionwide, including Adam To-
ledo, a 13-year-old killed last
month by Chicago Police.
The left-wing protesters
began by marching from Di-
rector Park through down-
town, smashing glass store-
fronts at locations including
the Nike store near Pioneer
Courthouse Square, the Bra-
zilian steakhouse Fogo de
Chao, a Verizon business and
a bank.
Some of the demonstrators
broke windows at the Ore-
gon Historical Society, whose
entrance was previously shat-
tered by protesters who had
declared an “Indigenous Day
of Rage” in October. Police
also said protesters damaged
the nearby First Christian
Church, which serves meals
to the homeless and has long
welcomed those who identify
as LGBTQ.
“We love our neighbors:
Immigrant, LGBTQ, of color,
with disabilities, of all faiths,”
read a sign in the window
of the church next to several
cracked window panes.
Police announced a riot
about 9:50 p.m., telling the
Dave Killen/The Oregonian
Protesters light a portable bathroom on fire in downtown Portland late Friday. The overnight demonstra-
tion was declared a riot by police shortly after windows were smashed earlier.
crowd to disperse, and pro-
testers arrived at the Mult-
nomah County Justice Center
and adjacent federal court-
house soon thereafter.
A standoff ensued between
at least 100 protesters and at
least 30 police officers.
Some protesters disman-
tled pedestrian traffic signals
at SW Fourth Avenue and
Salmon Street shortly before
11 p.m. and threw them into
the intersection. A bonfire
was lit at the intersection, and
a dumpster fire was set nearby.
During this time, Port-
land Police said there were 79
outstanding calls for service
across the city, including re-
ports of shots fired, burglaries
and a hit and run.
“Police resources were
stretched across the City to
manage the calls for emer-
gency calls for service and the
riot,” the bureau said in its
statement.
Shortly before midnight,
protesters overturned plastic
barriers filled with water out-
side the Apple store. The wa-
ter doused the street around
the dumpster fire.
Some in the group appeared
to try to break into Pioneer
Place. And some protesters lit
portable toilets ablaze near the
Apple store. Flames traveled
to a building, causing signifi-
cant damage, and firefighters
extinguished the blaze.
The sound of gunfire
erupted about 12:15 a.m. Sat-
urday, before and as a car trav-
eled through the intersection
of Third Avenue and Yamhill
Street.
A separate group of more
than 150 demonstrators also
gathered Friday night at
Salmon Street Springs on the
downtown waterfront. The
group listened to several Black
and Indigenous speakers be-
fore marching to the Haw-
thorne Bridge and turning
back toward the waterfront.
Demetria Hester, an activ-
ist who has been a frequent
presence at Portland protests,
called on white protesters in the
crowd to dismantle white su-
premacy with their own actions
— standing up for Black people
and other people of color in-
stead of being complacent and
trying to go back to “normal.”
More than 100 protesters
also gathered earlier in the
day at Lents Park in Southeast
Portland after Portland Police
shot and killed a man about
9:30 a.m.
The downtown riot dec-
laration marked Portland’s
third such announcement in
five days, as police also de-
clared riots amid events that
brought raucous crowds to
the Penumbra Kelly Build-
ing on E. Burnside Street and
Portland Police Association
building in North Portland
earlier in the week.
Both of those protests were
held over the fatal police
shooting of Daunte Wright, a
Black man in Minnesota.
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It’s Sunday, April 18, the 108th day
of 2021. There are 257 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1906, a devastating earthquake
struck San Francisco, followed by
raging fires; estimates of the final
death toll range between 3,000 and
6,000.
In 1775, Paul Revere began his
famous ride from Charlestown to
Lexington, Massachusetts, warning
colonists that British Regular troops
were approaching.
In 1831, the University of Alabama
in Tuscaloosa was officially opened.
In 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston surrendered to Union
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near
Durham Station in North Carolina.
In 1910, suffragists showed up at
the U.S. Capitol with half a million
signatures demanding that women
be given the right to vote.
In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser seized
power as he became prime minister
of Egypt.
In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein
died in Princeton, New Jersey, at 76.
In 1966, Bill Russell was named
player-coach of the Boston Celtics,
becoming the NBA’s first Black
coach.
In 1995, quarterback Joe Montana
retired from professional football.
The Houston Post closed after more
than a century.
In 2015, a ship believed to be carry-
ing more than 800 migrants from
Africa sank in the Mediterranean off
Libya; only about 30 people were
rescued.
In 2019, the final report from special
counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation was made public; it
outlined Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election but
did not establish that members of
the Trump campaign conspired or
coordinated with the Russian gov-
ernment. (Mueller offered no con-
clusion on the question of whether
the president obstructed justice.)
Ten years ago: Kenya’s Geoffrey
Mutai won the Boston Marathon in
2:03:02, the fastest anyone had ever
run the 26.2-mile distance; fellow
Kenyan Caroline Kilel won the wom-
en’s race in 2:22:36.
Five years ago: “Hamilton,”
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop stage
biography of America’s first treasury
secretary, won the Pulitzer Prize for
drama.
One year ago: The daily toll of coro-
navirus deaths in New York state hit
its lowest point in more than two
weeks.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Clive Re-
vill is 91. Actor Robert Hooks is 84.
Actor Hayley Mills is 75. Actor James
Woods is 74. Actor-director Dorothy
Lyman is 74. Actor Cindy Pickett is
74. Actor Rick Moranis is 68. Actor
Melody Thomas Scott is 65. Actor Eric
Roberts is 65. Actor Jane Leeves is 60.
Ventriloquist-comedian Jeff Dunham
is 59. Talk show host Conan O’Brien is
58. Actor Eric McCormack is 58. Actor
Maria Bello is 54. Actor Mary Bird-
song is 53. Actor David Tennant is 50.
Actor Melissa Joan Hart is 45. Actor
Sean Maguire is 45. Reality TV star
Kourtney Kardashian is 42. Detroit
Tigers first baseman and DH Miguel
Cabrera is 38. Actor America Ferrera
is 37. Actor Alia Shawkat is 32. Actor
Moises Arias is 27.
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