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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 Red House eviction defense was an occupation protest at a foreclosed house on North Mississippi Avenue in the Humboldt neighborhood in the Albina district, a historically Black district of Portland, Oregon, United States. [1][2][3] The Kinneys, a Black and Indigenous family, [4] owned the house, often called the "Red House," for 65 years.
Normandale Park shooting. Life in prison with the possibility of parole after 55 years. On February 19, 2022, Benjamin Jeffrey Smith approached and assaulted a small group of women, at the edge of Normandale Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. [2] He murdered one, caused the paralysis of another from the shoulders down, and seriously ...
On August 29, 2020, Aaron Danielson, an American supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, [1] [2] was shot and killed by a far-left activist after participating in a caravan which drove through Portland, Oregon, displaying banners and signs supporting President Donald Trump, [3] and clashing with participants in the local George Floyd protests.
On July 25, several thousand protesters gathered in the Capitol Hill neighborhood for demonstrations in solidarity with Portland, Oregon. [107] [108] Tensions had escalated in Portland in early July after the Trump administration deployed federal forces against the wishes of local officials, sparking controversy and regenerating the protests.
The brutal murder of Mulugeta Seraw in 1988 by the East Side White Pride gang further galvanized anti-racist protests in Portland, prompting further protests. [ 16 ] The Trojan Nuclear Power Plant , Oregon's only commercial nuclear power facility, was the subject of protests from its initial installation in the early 1970s until its ...
Shootings, theft and other crime test city's progressive strain. Jenny Jarvie. February 10, 2023 at 3:00 AM. Frank, a homeless man, sits in his tent with a river view in Portland, Ore., on June 5 ...
Arrested. 10 (initially); [1][2] 27 (October 30) [3] Occupy Portland was a collaboration that began on October 6, 2011, in downtown Portland, Oregon, as a protest and demonstration against economic inequality worldwide. The movement was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011.