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";s:4:"text";s:3905:" August 7, 2020 2:18 AM EDT Kate Brown and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that called for the agents to begin drawing down their presence in Portland’s downtown on July 30.But after a brief weekend reprieve, protest activity has continued nightly in other parts of the city, with Portland police, local sheriff’s deputies and, in some cases, Oregon State Police troopers on the frontlines as demonstrators demand an end to police funding.Wednesday night’s activity was in a residential neighborhood 6 miles (over 9 kilometers) away from the federal courthouse.Protesters on Wednesday gathered outside a police precinct and shined lasers in officers’ eyes, disabled exterior security cameras, broke windows and used boards pulled from the building to barricade the doors and start a fire, authorities said. Kate Brown (D) saying on Monday that “the President’s actions in Portland have been about political theater, not public safety.”The welcome absence of federal police has refocused a core group of protesters on long-standing tensions with local police that pit them against the Democratic city leaders who previously stood with them in opposing the federal interference, including Mayor Ted Wheeler, who also serves as police commissioner.Wheeler was outspoken in demanding that the Trump administration withdraw federal agents from his city but has grown increasingly exasperated by violent protester tactics.“When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder,” Wheeler said after the fire at the police union headquarters Saturday night.Such behavior, he said, creates “the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during his campaign.”Brown’s spokesman, Charles Boyle, said in a statement provided to The Washington Post that the withdrawal of federal agents this month had come with “a dramatic shift in the tone of the protests downtown,” following weeks of increasingly violent clashes. Tony Passadore, who was the incident commander.Police used tear gas for the first time since federal agents pulled back last week.“I don’t want people to get confused to think that this was something related to Black Lives Matter,” Passadore said of the precinct rally. Police recovered five guns.Chicago’s downtown is now closed indefinitely between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. No prisons. Yet he also cautioned protesters against another escalation.“Oregonians need to make sure that as they raise their voices, they do so in peaceful ways,” he said.Portland protest leaders and other demonstrators have pointed out that a relatively small number of people were involved in the fire, which began with protesters igniting plywood in the building entrance. "My fear is it'll end in bloodshed, someone or more than one person will be killed," she said. "That's sad and frightening, too. There were two peaceful demonstrations held on May 29. © 2020 KGW-TV. Federal police repeatedly released tear gas and munitions on crowds for weeks before they handed off oversight to state troopers.Calls for calm gained momentum downtown at the same time state police took over. (PORTLAND, Ore.) — Violent clashes this week between protesters and police in Portland, Oregon, have ratcheted up tensions in the city days after an agreement between state and federal officials appeared to bring calm.More demonstrations were rallying Thursday night, hours after the city’s mayor decried the unrest that has roiled Portland since George Floyd was killed.“You are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said Thursday in a hastily called news conference alongside Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.

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