Five people were arrested overnight in Portland, Oregon after a riot broke out on the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. The quintet was part of a crowd who set a fire in a dumpster next to the Justice Center, a building that houses a jail and law enforcement offices, while chanting “Burn the building down,” according to a Portland Police Bureau incident summary and photographs and video footage from the scene. Others in the crowd hurled frozen water bottles and eggs at police officers and some threw metal spikes into the road. The mob later marched to City Hall, breaking windows and scrawling far-left slogans across the facade. The mob was “incited” by some people, police said. Because of the continued criminal actions, police declared a riot and warned people to disperse or fact arrest or crowd control tactics. The crowd kept moving through the city, damaging property at businesses and …
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