PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Latest on a downtown Portland protest against the election of Republican Donald Trump (all times local):
9:45 p.m.
Police began deploying a flurry of flash-bang grenades as well as tear gas to move hundreds of people protesting President-elect Donald Trump in downtown Portland that had ignored repeated orders to disperse.
News outlets livestreaming the event showed the bulk of the crowd scattering Friday night.
Portland police tweeted that the action came after people threw burning projectiles at officers.
In response, some yelled obscenities at police while others shouted to “keep it peaceful.”
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9:15 p.m.
Portland police began using flash-bang grenades in an effort to disperse a crowd downtown filled with hundreds of people protesting President-Elect Donald Trump.
Portland Police said on Twitter those were the only devices being used at the time to move protesters out of the area.
Police said three separate marches were taking place throughout the city.
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9 p.m.
Hundreds of protesters traveled through downtown Portland streets Friday night while others converged at an intersection, not budging as police told them the activity amounted to unlawful assembly.
Portland Police said vandalism and assault had taken place during the rally, which organizers had billed as peaceful earlier in the day.
Police were broadcasting to the crowd that arrests would be made if they did not move along but officers weren’t rushing to do so.
Oregon Department of Transportation officials closed portions of Interstates 5 and 84 as a precaution.
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Marchers tried again to take to the streets in Portland after a peaceful rally outside City Hall to protest the presidential election of Republican Donald Trump.
The difference Friday between the peaceful protest turned riot Thursday night was evident almost from the beginning as police made their presence known.
At about 7 p.m. police broadcast to marchers that they would facilitate a planned marching route and said that any deviating from that route would not be permitted.
Rally organizers had pledged earlier in the day to demonstrate in one location and refrain from marching.
More than two dozen protesters were arrested Thursday night and early Friday after some demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted buildings, lit a dumpster fire and threw objects at police.
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