Windows smashed, pepper out at downtown Portland protest
Police make arrests during anti-ICE protest held in Portland s Pearl District Saturday night.
A night of broken glass ruptured the calm of Portland s swanky Pearl District neighborhood Saturday night, Feb. 27, as protesters called for immigration reform and police officers swooped in multiple times, making two arrests.
The demonstration, which was promoted online for days ahead of time, recapitulated many of the themes Portlanders grew familiar with last year, including copious amounts of graffiti and the shattering of windows of banks and a Starbucks cafe, another oft-hit target.
The crowd of perhaps 150 people gathered around 8 p.m. at The Fields Park, 1099 N.W. Overton St., before marching a few blocks along Overton to a boarded-up U.S. Customs and Immigration Services field office that was quickly slathered in a fresh coat of paint.