A still image from a video released by Portland Police shows a fire inside the Portland Police Association office in Portland, Ore., on Saturday.
Photo: Portland Police BureauPortland, Ore., authorities said that a protest on Saturday night developed into a riot after a group of protesters set a fire inside a building housing a union for police officers.
Nightly protests for racial justice have rocked the city of Portland for over two months since the killing of George Floyd on May 25 by Minneapolis police—with tensions flaring after President Trump sent in federal agents last month for several weeks to protect a federal courthouse.
On Saturday night, a few hundred protesters marched to the Portland Police Association office, according to a statement from the Portland Police. Some protesters lighted a dumpster on fire, pushed more dumpsters into the street to block traffic, spray painted the office and destroyed security cameras, the statement said.
A still image from a video shows a fire burning inside a Portland Police Association building late on Saturday.
Photo: Griffin Malone/StoryfulAbout a half-hour to midnight, a group broke into the union’s office and started a fire inside, the police said. A video, taken by a journalist and reposted on the Portland Police Bureau’s official Twitter account, captured someone throwing a chunk of wood into the building to fuel a fire burning on the floor inside.
“Those near the PPA Office: This has been declared a riot,” Portland Police tweeted in the early hours of Sunday morning. A series of additional tweets urged everyone to leave the area or risk arrest, citation or “crowd control agents” such as tear gas.
Three officers were injured trying to disperse the crowd, including two transported to a local hospital and later released, the police said. The crowd threw glass bottles and paint balloons at officers, and shined green lasers into their eyes, according to the police. The fire was eventually extinguished by workers from Portland Fire and Rescue.
Protests have calmed in the past two weeks after the Trump administration struck a deal about two weeks ago with Oregon’s democratic governor to withdraw federal agents from downtown Portland. The Department of Homeland Security said some officers will remain in the city until it is sure that federal property will be safe.
At protests late Friday night, 24 people were arrested after a crowd refused to disperse and began to throw rocks, fireworks and frozen and hard-boiled eggs at officers, the police said. One officer with the Oregon State Police was injured after a large rock struck him in the head.
Write to Shan Li at shan.li@wsj.com
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