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Portland protest turns violent, brutal assault caught on video | Fox News
I'm stunned. It keeps getting worse in Portland. Now they are having to call in the special response unit just to help assault victims. Elsewhere in the story, 60 calls to 911 were pending with the police trying to respond to all the violence. Something has to give there. It can't continue to turn into a horror story every night.
Violence erupted in Portland late Sunday just blocks from the federal courthouse after the driver of a pickup truck crashed, was reportedly pulled from the vehicle and then brutally beaten by a mob after a confrontation with protesters. Videos that emerged from the scene were chilling. The man identified as the driver could be seen getting punched, kicked and ordered not to leave in the middle of a city street. The man in the video, at one point, appeared dazed after the initial assault, but suffered the worst blow when he absorbed a roundhouse kick to the side of the head.
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Sgt. Kevin Allen, a police spokesman, said reports indicate that protesters "were chasing the truck before it crashed, and they assaulted the driver after the crash." He said responding officers "encountered a hostile crowd and a squad from the Rapid Response Team responded to help secure the scene while the investigation was underway."
Overnight Saturday a riot was declared and police used crowd control munitions, including smoke, to disperse a gathering outside a law enforcement building. Authorities said people had thrown "softball size" rocks, glass bottles and other objects at officers. Two police officers were treated at the hospital after being hit by rocks. Eleven people were arrested.
I'm stunned. It keeps getting worse in Portland. Now they are having to call in the special response unit just to help assault victims. Elsewhere in the story, 60 calls to 911 were pending with the police trying to respond to all the violence. Something has to give there. It can't continue to turn into a horror story every night.