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Death (s) 1. Injuries. Unknown. Arrested. 970+ [1] Starting in May 2020, protests following the murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020, many of the protests, which had been held every day since May 28, drew more than 1,000 ...
The protest area had several names; the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) was most common at the outset, along with "Free Capitol Hill". By its second week, the area was more often referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). On June 13, a group of several dozen protest leaders agreed to change the name from CHAZ to CHOP.
Portland "Back the Blue" Rally, August 22, 2020. The Downtown Portland "Back the Blue" Rally, organized by members of the Proud Boys and QAnon Movement, sparked violence between right-wing protesters and left-wing counter-protesters. Within an hour of meeting, both sides began pushing, punching, paint-balling, and macing each other.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was seen in distress before eventually leaving the scene as US government agents teargassed him and numerous protesters as they stood outside the city’s federal ...
A police officer in Portland, Oregon, issued a video apology Tuesday for hitting a photographer in the head with a baton during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
June 1. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War is formed. Veteran Jan Barry Crumb participated in a protest on April 15 called the "Fifth Avenue Peace Parade" in New York City. On May 30, Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D.C.
A revamped protest response team is being launched in Portland's police department, despite skepticism from some residents who said their confidence was eroded by the police response to 2020 ...
The group remained active in the Pacific Northwest and had a dozen chapters in Idaho, Oregon and Washington by 2020. [97] In June 2020, members of the Proud Boys rallied at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, Washington, in an effort to confront protesters. [95] The Proud Boys at an Ohio event in 2020.