{"id":110992,"date":"2021-02-28T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110992"},"modified":"2021-02-28T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:55:50","slug":"portland-direct-action-event-looks-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110992","title":{"rendered":"Portland &#8220;Direct Action&#8221; Event Looks Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-110995 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/portland-riot-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/portland-riot-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/portland-riot-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/portland-riot-478x333.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/portland-riot.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>At least two arrests were made after a mostly peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, turned violent.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Businesses in downtown Portland were again damaged and vandalized by reported antifa rioters, protesting President Biden\u2019s opening of a temporary child migrant facility in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When these people come through, and we&#8217;ve lost an entire day of business which means that&#8217;s impacting my team member&#8217;s wages. This has been going on for nine months,&#8221; said Jim Rice, who owns Fields Bar and Grill in downtown Portland. &#8220;Where are our resources? When do we get enough resources to finally go after and fix this?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Portland anti-ICE rioters smash windows, spray-paint businesses; downtown merchants frustrated<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Around 150 people marched through Portland\u2019s Pearl District in what\u2019s called a &#8220;direct action&#8221; event<\/em><br \/>\nBy Brie Stimson <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rioters vandalized several buildings in downtown Portland, Ore., on Saturday night in one of the largest protests in weeks, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Around 150 people marched through Portland\u2019s Pearl District in what\u2019s called a &#8220;direct action&#8221; event, smashing windows of businesses like Starbucks, Chipotle, Umpqua Bank and Urban Pantry and tagging them with graffiti, KION-TV in Portland reported. <\/p>\n<p>One vandal wrote &#8220;banks suck&#8221; on Umpqua Bank\u2019s fa\u00e7ade, a Portland Tribune reporter tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>The marchers were protesting the Biden administration\u2019s immigration policy and the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jim, laddie, if Portland and Washington State governments haven&#8217;t expended the necessary resources and force of will by now, chances are pretty good they never are. Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-anti-ice-rioters-smash-windows-spray-paint-businesses-downtown-merchants-frustrated\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two arrests were made after a mostly peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, turned violent. &hellip; <a title=\"Portland &#8220;Direct Action&#8221; Event Looks Familiar\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110992\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland &#8220;Direct Action&#8221; Event Looks Familiar<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,302,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-antifa","category-reality-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110996,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992\/revisions\/110996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}