Federal agents use tear gas at close range to clear thousands of protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. They also extinguished a large fire in the street outside the courthouse.
A Black Lives Matter protester uses a shield as federal officers use chemical irritants to disperse demonstrators at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Friday, July 24, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Since federal officers arrived in downtown Portland in early July, violent protests have largely been limited to a two block radius from the courthouse.
The Federal Protective Service had declared the gathering as “an unlawful assembly” and cited that officers had been injured. The flow of tear gas caused protesters to disperse at times, some becoming sick as others remaining towards the front of the courthouse with leaf blowers directing the gas back to the courthouse. Federal agents had leaf blowers of their own to counteract.Pereyo said he had been at the nearby park watching drummers and fireworks being shot, when his face and eyes began to burn.
It was unclear whether anyone was arrested during the protest. The federal agents, deployed by President Donald Trump to tamp down the unrest, have arrested dozens during nightly demonstrations against racial injustice that often turn violent. Oregon was seeking a restraining order on behalf of its residents not for injuries that had already happened but to prevent injuries by federal officers in the future. That combination makes the standard for granting such a motion very narrow, and the state did not prove it had standing in the case, Mosman wrote.
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