Civil rights groups call for federal investigation into Portland Police Bureau's use of 'kettling'
Friday night, officers corralled close to 100 people within a single city block, recorded their names and photographed their faces.
Author: Maggie Vespa
Updated: 9:22 PM PST March 13, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. — Days after Portland’s protests flared up again, civil rights advocates are calling for a federal investigation into the Portland Police Bureau’s use of a crowd control tactic known as "kettling."
It happened Friday night in the city’s Pearl District, at Northwest 13th Avenue and Northwest Marshall Street. The bureau said later in a news release officers indeed corralled close to 100 people within a single city block, recorded their names and photographed their faces.