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<\/p>\nPortland protests
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Portland’s people have finally had enough of the rolling lefty riots
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A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility burned during a Saturday night protest in Portland, Ore., that ended with federal agents shooting pepper balls to disperse rioters, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The run-in marked another evening of chaos in the City of Roses, where sometimes-violent protests have raged nearly nightly for almost a year.<\/p>\n
“The Portland ICE facility is currently on fire,” wrote independent journalist Grace Morgan in a tweet accompanied by a 7-second video clip of the small blaze.<\/p>\n
In the clip, flames lap at a large sheet of wood on the building’s exterior marked with graffiti messages such as, “Reunite!” and “F–k ICE.”<\/p>\n
Clips posted by Morgan and other freelance journalists on Twitter do not show exactly how the fire started, but previous tweets show rioters starting a small blaze in a facility driveway a few feet away.<\/p>\n
“First ANTIFA fire of the night has already kicked off, so far people are just warming their hands on this cold night,” Morgan captioned a still photo of about a half-dozen people gathered around a small blaze, some reaching their hands close to it.<\/p>\n
By the next tweet in Morgan’s thread, rioters had begun pelting the facility with projectiles.<\/p>\n
“A small fire is started in the ICE driveway among broken glass bottles, a flair [sic] is thrown over the gate, protesters throw eggs at the door,” she wrote. “So far no response or sight of officers.”<\/p>\n
Rioters ignored loudspeaker warnings against trespassing and ripped down fences at the building’s perimeter, wrote Morgan.<\/p>\n
The driveway fire, meanwhile, grew larger, fed by what appeared to be at least two wooden pallets, Morgan’s photos show.<\/p>\n
“Fire outside the Portland ICE facility,” she captioned one shot of the growing flames. “The crowd chants ‘This is what community looks like!’”<\/p>\n
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Morgan’s next tweet contained the video of the front of the facility on fire.<\/p>\n
“The ICE building has been set on fire,” wrote Chris Landis, another freelance journalist, in a separate shot of the flames climbing up the side of the structure.<\/p>\n
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Subsequent videos posted by Morgan show federal agents emerge from the building to push back the rioters with force.<\/p>\n
“Federal agents retreat and unload hundreds of pepper bullets on protesters outside the Portland ICE facility,” she captioned one such tweet.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured or arrested in the chaos.<\/p>\n
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Protests have raged across Portland since last year, fueled variously by police brutality, racial discrimination and a disdain of US immigration policy.<\/p>\n
The demonstrations have often devolved into violent clashes, whether with law enforcement, right-wing counterprotesters or local politicians.<\/p>\n