Thread by @MrAndyNgo

Breaking: Around 100 #antifa members in black bloc gathered in front of the Justice Center in downtown Portland to smash property & attack police. A riot has been declared.

Antifa destroyed property in downtown Portland to oppose the Kyle #Rittenhouse verdict, they say. Earlier in the day, violent Portland #antifa member Alexander Gorman Dial was given no jail time at his sentencing.

.@PortlandPolice appear to retreat as violent #antifa members in Portland threaten them. The antifa gathered in black bloc in downtown to destroy property to oppose #Rittenhouse verdict.

The @PortlandPolice declared a riot after #antifa tried breaking down one of the gates to the central police station to launch an attack. Antifa gathered to riot in response to #Rittenhouse verdict.

#Antifa shut down the road outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland and chanted, “Kyle is a terrorist.” Antifa spent the night smashing property, starting a fire & trying to break inside the Justice Center/Central police station.

#Antifa in downtown Portland incite violence by chanting one of their favorites: “Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground.” They gathered to try & break inside the Justice Center to oppose #Rittenhouse verdict.

A mob of violent #antifa in black bloc confronted a group of police officers trying to protect the @PortlandPolice central station. The officers retreat.

Antifa rioted & damaged property in downtown Portland, Ore. as vengeance for the jury’s verdict in Kyle #Rittenhouse case in #Kenosha, Wisc.

With severe staffing shortages in the @PortlandPolice due to police defunding & demoralizing work environment, Portlanders were put at further risk overnight as the few remaining officers were deployed to protect #antifa from storming Justice Center. #Rittenhouse

As at other violent #antifa riots, the @ACLU_OR sent volunteers to be potential witnesses on behalf of antifa at the direct action overnight in downtown Portland. To enact revenge over verdict in #Rittenhouse trial, rioters tried to break inside Justice Center to burn it down.

.@MultCoSO declared a riot in downtown Portland last night after a mob of #antifa gathered outside the Justice Center & broke inside past a gate. Responding officers were hit by urine, bottles & projectiles. They made no arrests & are asking for tips to be sent to [e-mail]

A Portland #antifa member discusses how the comrades were terrorizing the wrong drivers in the road during anti-#Rittenhouse riot; another admits that their fake “medics” are just as violent as any other antifa.