Here’s the longer version of the protester being struck repeatedly by federal police tonight in Portland pic.twitter.com/v9BljIkLK0
— Zane Sparling (@PDXzane) July 19, 2020
The protesters started a fire in the building of the police association in the US Portland (Oregon, USA), RIA Novosti reported, citing a police report.
According to law enforcement officials, protesters gathered in the city center, erecting barricades outside the building of the local federal court, some of them set fire to garbage cans.
Several people managed to break into the building of the police trade union and start a fire there, but it was later extinguished.
After that, the protesters began to be dispersed and detained.
Protests and subsequent riots in several American cities, and later in other countries of the world, began after the death in Minneapolis at the hands of the African American police force George Floyd.
Videos appeared on the Web in which the police put handcuffs on Floyd, knocked him down and fell on him three of them, and one of them stepped on his neck with a knee and used a painful technique against a person who did not offer resistance for eight minutes. George Floyd repeats in the video several times that he cannot breathe, and then he becomes quiet. He died in intensive care.