{"id":180768,"date":"2021-02-28T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=180768"},"modified":"2021-02-28T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:15:27","slug":"rioters-smash-windows-force-businesses-to-board-up-in-downtown-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rioters-smash-windows-force-businesses-to-board-up-in-downtown-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rioters Smash Windows, Force Businesses To Board Up In Downtown Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frioters-smash-windows-force-businesses-to-board-up-in-downtown-portland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=180768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1229022592.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Suspected members of Antifa demonstrated against President Joe Biden overnight in Portland, Oregon, forcing businesses to board up their windows and doors to protect against vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>Around 150 \u201canti-ICE\u201d (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) protesters marched through downtown Portland on Saturday night \u2014 a continuation of ongoing protests against the Biden administration\u2019s decision to continue deporting some migrants under the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cpublic safety\u201d rules, and news, which broke last week, of a detention facility for children opening on the United States-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-anti-ice-rioters-smash-windows-spray-paint-businesses-downtown-merchants-frustrated\">Fox News reports that Saturday night\u2019s demonstration<\/a>, though, was the largest \u201cin weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 150 people marched through Portland\u2019s Pearl District in what\u2019s called a \u2018direct action\u2019 event, smashing windows of businesses like Starbucks, Chipotle, Umpqua Bank, and Urban Pantry and tagging them with graffiti, KION-TV in Portland reported,\u201d according to Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Although coverage of ongoing unrest in Portland has largely dropped off, the far-left protests have not abated. On the day President Joe Biden was inaugurated, suspected \u201canti-fascists\u201d vandalized the city\u2019s Democratic party headquarters, and just last month, Federal agents were called in to defend an ICE facility there. They tangled with rioters and, eventually, were forced to deploy non-lethal means of crowd control, including tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a city that has seen months of demonstrations over racial injustice, economic inequality, federal law enforcement, and corporate power \u2014 and some of the harshest law enforcement responses to such protests \u2014 protesters have vowed to continue their actions no matter who is president,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/nation-world\/ct-nw-nyt-biden-inauguration-portland-unrest-agents-use-tear-gas-20210121-o3s3yfelxjfpxpz45ggvkneley-story.html\">the New York Times reported in January<\/a>. \u201c\u2018We are ungovernable,\u2019 one sign in the crowd said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet described the incident as a \u201cchallenge by anti-fascist and racial-justice protesters to the new administration of President Joe Biden, whose promised reforms, they declared, \u2018won\u2019t save us.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night\u2019s demonstration was similar and also centered around Biden\u2019s immigration policies, which are markedly different from his predecessors, but still not as radical as the far-left\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfanity-laden slogans and messages like \u2018No kids in cages\u2019 were spray-painted all over ICE\u2019s nearby field office,\u201d Fox News reported. \u201cPortland police began arrests around 10 p.m. ET and warned the protesters if they didn\u2019t disperse they could be subjected to tear gas and impact munitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice noted in a news release that while tear gas was restricted it could be used following an ignored warning,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have removed everything that could possibly cause damage tonight,\u201d one business owner told local media. \u201cWhen these people come through, and we\u2019ve lost an entire day of business which means that\u2019s impacting my team member\u2019s wages. This has been going on for nine months. Where are our resources? When do we get enough resources to finally go after and fix this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protests in Portland began back in May, following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police. They\u2019ve continued since and did not stop with a change in administration.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected members of Antifa demonstrated against President Joe Biden overnight in Portland, Oregon, forcing businesses to board up their windows and doors to protect against vandalism. 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