Some do. The ones who came in from Seattle are the same anarchist-types who gave us the WTO Riots there. One clown threw a Molotov (now on $1M bail) but he came from Redding.
Your average Portland Protester is a "sit down and get baked" type. You usually don't have to worry too much about them getting violent so long as they don't run out of Doritos.
The cops have been advertising that to get arrested tonight, the protesters would have to REQUEST an arrest.
There won't be anything going on that the protesters themselves don't start and that isn't going to happen. These are real hippie-dippie types.
The local libs are making this an excuse to throw a street party. Nothing wrong with that given that its Portland - if anything, it will keep things calm.
I’m late to this thread because last night I was too busy celebrating Oregon beating Stanford to worry about protestors in Weird (in their minds) Portland. I am currently in Maryland, so the party was pretty late.
I grew up in Eugene, adult years there in the ‘70’s until I had to leave the state in 1981, when the jobs situation in much of Oregon was as bad, or worse, than now. I knew many of the early generation of black hat anarchists and earth first activist types who lived in Eugene or spent a lot of time there.
Have you heard anything about the crowd from the Eugene area showing up in Portland? They would be the types who would come for the action with the police.