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Marchers Set Fire at Apple Store and Shatter Windows Across Downtown Portland After Police Killing The scale of damage tonight recalled the riots last May. A bartender in a downtown restaurant continues work after the storefront window is smashed. (Justin Yau) Updated 3:08 AM The powder keg lit by the police killing of a man in the Lents neighborhood Friday morning exploded in downtown Portland on Friday night. Protesters who for nearly a year have demanded the defunding or abolition of the Portland Police Bureau responded to the fatal shooting by carving a trail of property destruction through downtown. The spree lasted into Saturday morning. They shattered windows of banks, restaurants and a church, wrote “No More History” on the Oregon Historical Society’s front entrance, and faced off with riot p