Emergency services in Portland had to be rerouted and were even temporarily blocked by crowds overnight, as hundreds of demonstrators left a trail of damage downtown following Election Day.
A video by KOIN and retweeted by the Oregon State Police early Thursday showed law enforcement officers holding the line preventing a large crowd from entering an intersection in Portland.
An announcement can be heard from a police vehicle telling demonstrators why they must disperse. “There’s a medical call on this block that we need to get to — we need the crowd to disperse to the west," police say, notifying the crowd they might be subject to arrest and crowd control munitions of CS gas if they failed to leave the area.
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