No. of Recommendations: 15
Why's this so hard?
Because you typically can't "lock people up and throw away the key" for violating noise ordinances. And you usually can't use noise ordinances or other minor violations pretextually to end protests that you dislike. If they're protesting without engaging in any activity that would normally result in criminal arrests (rather than civil enforcement), it's going to be hard to support an arrest. And of course, Portland has no obligation to prioritize enforcement activities towards minor infractions because the protestors make ICE unhappy. ICE cares about people protesting them, and maybe ICE would look for pretextual violations in order to make the protests go away, but Portland doesn't have to, and it's clearly not their priority to "throw the book" at minor infractions in connection with a protest.
The large crowd that you linked to in that article was dispersed by Portland police. They were driven off using a combination of crowd control measures and arresting individuals that were observed engaging in criminal behavior. Portland officials stopped that group, using fairly standard responses.
The "100 days" folks are a much smaller crowd that's just been protesting in front of the ICE building. Unless those guys have been breaking glass and launching fireworks continuously for the last three months, I think you're getting them confused.
Care to note the date on this article? What does the date suggest about the job being done by Portland's city and Oregon's state governments?
I genuinely am not sure what point you're trying to get at here - what does it suggest? The incident in the article was cleared by Portland PB, so I really don't understand why the June date is significant.
