A place like Portland is the kind where I would expect the city government to state that this was a legitimate form of political free expression, much like when Minnecraponus mayor RT Rybak backed the RNC8 for plotting to set off incendiary devices to injure police officers during the Republican National Convention.
I hope it doesn’t get to this but somebody is going to get killed by these antics, deliberately or not....burning cars, people shooting....