April 21, 2021 Portland protests post-Derek Chauvin guilty verdict result in 2 arrests, bike officer punched in head Portland was rocked by violent demonstrations Tuesday – even after a Minnesota jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of the murder of George Floyd.
April 21, 2021 Portland police officer surrounded, punched in face; 'unlawful assembly' declared Video emerged out of Portland, Ore., hours after the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict that police said showed an officer being surrounded and then punched in the face by a masked individual dressed in black.
April 18, 2021 Portland church damaged in riot says cost of repairs will take away from feeding the homeless Portland businesses and a church picked up the pieces Saturday morning between nights of unrest in the city following a number of police shootings nationwide.
April 18, 2021 Newt Gingrich: Crisis of American civilization – here's what we must do to oppose forces trying to destroy US We are now in a crisis of American civilization fully as dangerous and real as the crisis of the U.S. Civil War or World War II.
April 17, 2021 Riot declared in Portland after protesters cause damage following police shootings Portland police again declared a riot Friday night after protesters smashed windows of downtown businesses and lit fires during a demonstration.
April 17, 2021 Riots, protests in Minnesota, Chicago, elsewhere in reaction to police shootings Crowds poured into the streets in several U.S. cities on Friday night, reacting to the police shooting deaths of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Adam Toledo in Chicago.
April 16, 2021 Oregonian newspaper ripped for identifying police shooting victim as White 'in light of social unrest' The Oregonian newspaper received fierce backlash Friday after it revealed the race of the victim of a police-involved shooting in Portland in an apparent effort to quell potential riots.
April 16, 2021 Fire danger high Friday in Pacific Northwest Dry and windy conditions combined with unseasonably warm temperatures are elevating fire danger Friday into the weekend in much of Northwest Oregon including Portland, according to the National Weather Service in Portland.
April 15, 2021 Almost half of federal cases against Portland rioters have been dismissed Federal prosecutors in Portland, Ore., have moved to dismiss almost half the cases they charged in connection with violence accompanying last year’s protests over racial injustice, as authorities grapple with how to tamp down politically motivated unrest that has arisen since then.
April 15, 2021 Murders soared as police 'pulled back' amid 2020 protests in major cities, report finds Declining police involvement and arrests in the wake of protests that began in the summer of 2020 have been linked to a record number of murders in the country’s major cities, according to a recent analysis.
