Scorning Biden, Protesters in Portland and Seattle Called for More Radical Change

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=58033"><span class="small">Mike Baker and Hallie Golden, The New York Times</span></a>

Thursday, 21 January 2021 09:23

Excerpt: "In Portland, Ore., and Seattle, protesters marched through the downtown areas on Wednesday carrying signs opposing the police, immigration authorities and government in general, and some people in each city vandalized buildings symbolizing institutional power."

Law enforcement deployed tear gas Wednesday at a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore. (photo: Alisha Jucevic/The New York Times)

Scorning Biden, Protesters in Portland and Seattle Called for More Radical Change

By Mike Baker and Hallie Golden, The New York Times

21 January 21

n Portland, Ore., and Seattle, protesters marched through the downtown areas on Wednesday carrying signs opposing the police, immigration authorities and government in general, and some people in each city vandalized buildings symbolizing institutional power.

In Portland, about 200 people clad in black marched to the local Democratic headquarters, where some of them smashed windows and tipped over garbage containers, lighting the contents of one on fire.

Those who took to the streets on Wednesday said they were a mix of anarchists, anti-fascists and racial justice protesters. One of their signs said, “We don’t want Biden — we want revenge” for killings committed by police officers and “fascist massacres.”

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