22 protesters face federal charges after arrests in Portland over the weekend

by KATU Staff

Tue, July 28th 2020, 12:15 AM UTC

Members of several law enforcement units look out at the crowd of protesters. (Photo by Sam Z. Morrison)

For the 58th consecutive night, protesters gathered at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and to demand an end to police violence against people of color. Although the nightly protests are confined to one block in a city with a population of over half a million covering an area of 145 square miles, the nightly protest became a major political controversy once President Trump and Attorney General William Barr dispatched over one hundred heavily armed federal troops, who wear no identifying markings on their combat style camo uniforms, to the protests. Friday night an estimated 3,000 protesters gathered and remained until the federal troops cleared the area at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning while making several arrests. Photo by Jeremy Williams

For the 58th consecutive night, protesters gathered at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and to demand an end to police violence against people of color. Although the nightly protests are confined to one block in a city with a population of over half a million covering an area of 145 square miles, the nightly protest became a major political controversy once President Trump and Attorney General William Barr dispatched over one hundred heavily armed federal troops, who wear no identifying markings on their combat style cammo uniforms, to the protests. Friday night an estimated 3,000 protesters gathered and remained until the federal troops cleared the area at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning while making several arrests. Photo by Austin Johnson.

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Members of several law enforcement units look out at the crowd of protesters. (Photo by Sam Z. Morrison)

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