Protests return to downtown Portland
Additional rallies are announced for the weekend, including one Friday in the Pearl District.
Protests erupted outside the Mark Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland as fires were set and federal service officers used chemical munitions to move the crowd back Thursday, March 11.
A group of about 50 to 60 people dressed in black were seen ripping down plywood, spray painting graffiti and setting fires. After a while, Federal Protective Officers pushed them back with tear gas and less-lethal munitions.
Over the course of about two hours, multiple skirmishes were seen as protesters set fires, officers extinguished them, then pushed the protesters back again. Tear gas was used outside the federal courthouse and protesters were arrested or detained.
ShakeAlert will warn of earthquakes March 11 2021
A new ShakeAlert notification system for earthquakes is going live in Oregon on Thursday morning.
The system can detect significant earthquakes quickly and send a real-time alert to your phone before the shaking reaches you.
ShakeAlert does not predict earthquakes or how long they will last but it does offer advance warning about quakes that have already started. The system will continue to monitor the shaking until it stops. You may get more than one of these alerts if it is a large earthquake and continues to grow, said Althea Rizzo of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management.
Feds removing barricades, fencing from Portland courthouse March 09 2021
Department of Homeland Security racked up millions of dollars in fines from two city bureaus irked by iron barricade.
The security fence around the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland is coming down this week.
The fence was originally built in response to protests over racial injustice last summer, has remained in place for eight months and cost more than $200,000. The fence s disassembly marks a symbolic end to the militarized response by law enforcement during one of the longest sustained protests in Portland s history. Through the spring and summer, racial justice demonstrators gathered for more 100 consecutive nights, prompting the Trump administration to send unmarked federal agents in military fatigues to patrol city streets.
March 09 2021
One officer s saga - from sitting on a committee that oversees police conduct to his resignation under fire - highlights calls for reform.
On May 18, 2019, a longtime member of the most influential police oversight body in Oregon, Officer Craig Halupowski, got ready to arrest a man accused of making threats at the local mall in Woodburn.
Walking toward the man, the cop looked around to make sure nobody but his two fellow officers could hear, according to a subsequent investigation. If he resists, we beat the s out of him, Halupowski said, according to a video from a coworker s body camera.
March 07 2021
Police say her 2-year-old sister also was injured in the Saturday night collision.
A 9-year-old girl died Saturday night after being hit by a car in Gresham. Her 2-year-old sister was taken to a hospital after being injured in the same collision.
The names of the victims were not immediately released. Gresham police said the driver remained on the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.
According to police, a mother and her two daughters were hit by a car on Northwest Eastman Parkway and Northwest Third Street. The 9-year-old died at the scene. The condition of her sister was not released.