Riot declared in East Portland. During the stand off with State Police, molotovs or some other incendiary detonate in the crowd. Police respond with mass impact weapon fire..
Police and the crowd have a dramatic exchange of fire. The crowd begins to retreat.
Police munitions Light a Prius aflame.
The crowd falls mack into the trees of Ventura Park under heavy gas fire. They are briefly illuminated by a firework
Police retreat and leave. The crowd lights stuff on fire and cameras flood in.
Police return and charge. Five ish of them tackle one young woman and pull her shirt up over her head.
After a couple more charges, and a long march, the crowd makes their way into a darkened neighborhood.
Police detonate a presumed tear gas grenade in the same area as the arrests. The crowd accuses them of doing this so they can soak arrestees in tear gas.
From earlier, another ugly arrest. Police repeatedly punch the arrestee.
State Troopers attempt to arrest a man who is heckling them, but he is very fast and OSP has not been doing their cardio. They can't run far.
After the troopers get tired, their target returns to heckle them.
So this is still going on.

I've noticed that the pepper ball guys are all definitely posing when they shoot.
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