Portland -Statues toppled, windows smashed, riot declared downtown

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11. Here is a more detailed article from the Oregonian

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/10/protesters-topple-portland-statues-of-theodore-roosevelt-abraham-lincoln-in-day-of-rage.html

"Protest organizers had promoted the event on social media as an “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage.” Monday is the federally observed holiday of Columbus Day, but many states and cities now recognize the day instead as Indigenous Peoples Day over concerns that Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas helped launch centuries of violence against indigenous populations."
"The organizers had signaled their aggressive stance for the night, calling for “direct action” and demanding that the video live-streamers and photographers who had become staples of such events stay away. People in the crowd were repeatedly admonished not to film. Passersby who happened upon the group where ordered by people in the crowd to stop filming or delete photographs, including an apartment resident who had lasers shined at his eyes and a liquid thrown in his face as he appeared to film the scene from his terrace."
"The group, about 200 strong, marched through downtown Portland, at one point occupying all four lanes of West Burnside Street."
Details on the toppling the statues are in the article.
"The crowd then moved through downtown, breaking windows and destroying a sign at the Portland State University Campus Public Safety office. Several storefronts had their windows smashed."