US.
DAN: I HEARD THEM SAY YOU IN
THE BLACK COLUMBIA JACKET.
POLICE ARE TWEETING ANYONE IN
THE AREA IS SUBJECT TO ARREST.
EVERYONE ORDERED TO CLEAR THE
AREA OR BE SUBJECT TO ARREST AS
WE LOOK AT THE PORTLAND RIOT
SQUAD MOVING DOWN THE STREET.
NOW, IT'S BEEN INTERESTING.
THE PORTLAND POLICE -- COLE:
HERE WE GO WITH ANOTHER -- OH,
I APOLOGIZE, DAN.
JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT
QUICKLY WE HAVE ANOTHER FIRE IT
APPEARS THAT THEY TRIED TO SET
RIGHT HERE AT PIONEER
COURTHOUSE SQUARE JUST IN FRONT
OF THE LITTLE DINER HERE,
FRESCHI.
THERE IS SOMEBODY MARKING THAT.
DAN, GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR
THOUGHT.
I APOLOGIZE.
DAN: NO.
INTERRUPT ME ANY MOMENT YOU
NEED TO.
I REMEMBER IN THE PAST A LONG
TIME AGO THE PORTLAND POLICE
USED TO RUSH IN AND MOVE
EVERYBODY OUT AND THEN WHAT
HAPPENED IS THAT WOULD CREATE
TENSION AND PEOPLE WOULD FIGHT
BACK.
IF YOU REMEMBER BACK TO THE
DAYS WHERE PEOPLE OCCUPIED
CHAPMAN SQUARE AND MONSDALE
THEY TRIED THE TACTIC WHERE
THEY MOVED IN, SURROUNDED
PEOPLE, AND EVERYONE GOT ALL
FIRED UP AND THEN THEY JUST
LEFT AND THE PEOPLE HAD NOBODY
TO BE ANGRY AT.
THEY JUST KIND OF DISPERSED ON
THEIR OWN.
THAT IS A TACTIC WE'VE SEEN
THEM USE HOPING THAT BY NOT
CAUSING OR PARTICIPATING IN A
CONFRONTATION PEOPLE WOULD GO
AWAY.
YOU'RE NOT GIVING THEM WHAT
THESE ANARCHISTS WANT.
SO THEY'VE BEEN TRYING THAT AND
IT'S WORKED QUITE WELL
RECENTLY.
TODAY THAT DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE
WORKING AS THE ANARCHIST GROUP
HAS TAKEN OVER AND RUINED A
PEACEFUL PLANNED, PERMITTED
MARCH FOR THE 50 ORGANIZATIONS
THAT HAD COME TOGETHER TO DO
THAT.
NOW, COLE, YOU HAVE BEEN
ACTUALLY SHOT BY A RUBBER
BULLET.
AT SOME POINT TELL US WHAT THAT
FEELS LIKE.
COLE: CORRECT.
WELL, THAT DOES NOT FEEL VERY
GOOD AT ALL.
WE DID HEAR A COUPLE OF RUBBER
BULLETS BEING SHOT JUST A FEW
SECONDS AGO.
SORRY.
RUBBER BULLETS BEING SHOT HAVE
A DISTINCT SOUND COMING OUT OF
THOSE GUNS THEY USE.
THAT WAS DURING -- RIGHT AFTER
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WHERE
I WAS SHOT IN THE BACK AND ALSO
HAD A FLASH BANG GO OFF AND THE
SHRAPNEL FROM THAT -- THERE WE
GO.
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL.
ONE OF THOSE FLASH BANGS WHEN
THEY EXPLODE, JUST THE PLASTIC
PIECES REALLY FLYING
EVERYWHERE.
SERIOUS WELTS ON YOUR BACK.
YOU'LL FEEL IT FOR A COUPLE
DAYS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S
A FLASH BANG SHRAPNEL OR THOSE
RUBBER BULLETS.
IT DOES NOT FEEL GOOD.
WE'RE CONTINUING TO GO WEST
NOW.
WE JUST PASSED NORDSTROM.
THIS IS A LIVE LOOK DOWN
MORRISON RIGHT AS YOU COME PAST
NORDSTROM, PAST PIONEER
COURTHOUSE SQUARE.
THIS GROUP IT APPEARS NOW FROM
LOOKING AHEAD LOOKS LIKE
THEY'RE GOING LEFT ON TENTH.
SOUTH ON SOUTHWEST 10TH IF I'M
LOOKING AT THE INTERSECTION
CORRECTLY.
YOU CAN SEE THE INTERSECTIONS
WHERE THEY'RE PULLING IN THE
TRAFFIC SIGNS, TRAFFIC CONES.
NOT SURE IF THEY'RE TRYING TO
IMPEDE THE POLICE PROGRESS OR
WHAT THE IDEA BEHIND THAT IS OR
IF THERE IS MUCH OF ONE AT ALL.
OKAY.
WINDOWS BUSTED UP HERE AT
TARGET.
JUST SAW A COUPLE GUYS.
YES, THERE WE GO.
THROWING ROCKS AT THOSE
WINDOWS.
KICKING THE WINDOWS IN.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU DON'T
WANT TO SEE.
WE JUST TALKED ABOUT IT.
THIS WAS A PEACEFUL PROTEST.
IT IS ANYTHING BUT THAT RIGHT
NOW.
I MEAN, THIS IS A TARGET STORE.
DAN: THAT IS NOT GOOD.
JENNIFER: OH, NO.
COLE: DIDN'T QUITE GET IT IN
THERE.
DAN: THANK GOODNESS.
COLE: YOU'D LIKE TO SEE A
LITTLE MORE POLICE AHEAD OF
THIS, DAN.
I AM NOT SEEING MUCH OF A
POLICE PRESENCE AT ALL AHEAD OF
WHERE WE ARE AND I THINK IT
WOULD BE BENEFICIAL AT THIS
POINT.
BRINGING A POLICE CAR HERE.
LOOK AT THEM, YEAH.
JUST ABSOLUTELY TRASHING THIS
POLICE CAR HERE.
JENNIFER: THIS MAY BE ON PAR
WITH SOME OF THE VIOLENCE --.
COLE: THEY SLASHED THE TIRES.
THEY'VE BROKEN OUT THE WINDOWS.
DAN: TO THROW AN INCENDIARY
DEVICE INSIDE A STORE MAY BE A
FIRST IN MY 20 YEARS IN
COVERING NEWS IN PORTLAND.
COLE: BIG ROCKS BEING THROWN
OUT HERE, TOO.
JENNIFER: IT IS INTERESTING TO
NOTE THIS DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR
IT TO TURN.
THIS WAS IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING
US A MAYDAY PROTEST, A MARCH
THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO START
ABOUT 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON.
THEY HAD THE APPROPRIATE
PERMIT.
COLE: THEY'RE TRYING TO PUT A
FLARE INSIDE THIS POLICE CAR
THFMENT COULD END POORLY.
WE'LL GET SOMEBODY UP HERE WITH
SOME KIND OF FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
THIS COULD LIGHT UP IF THAT
FLARE CONTINUES TO BURN.
JUST UNLIKE ANYTHING WE'VE
SEEN.
YOU AND I AND JENNIFER
, WE'RE
FUNDING THIS.
THIS IS OUR MONEY BEING BURNED.
JENNIFER: COLE, IT ONLY TOOK
ABOUT A HALF HOUR TO TURN AND
BY ABOUT 4:15 WE FIRST SAW THE
VIOLENCE START.
COLE: I'M TRYING TO FIND MY
PHOTOGRAPHER.
I SEE HIM.
DAN: LET'S LISTEN TO THE
POLICE.
COLE: YOU HAVE TO THINK POLICE
WILL START MAKING MOVES AT SOME
POINT.
IT IS HARD TO GUESS.
WE ARE ON SOUTHWEST 10TH
CONTINUING SOUTH THROUGH
LILLIAM HILL NOW.
THE GROUP LOOKS TO BE ONE OR
TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM -- AHEAD
OF US TO THE SOUTH.
TWO, THREE BLOCKS BACK FROM THE
CROWD TAS CONTINUES TO MOVE
SOUTH WHERE THE POLICE CAR WAS
JUST TRASHED.
I THINK WE SAW THAT.
LAST YEAR ON MAYDAY IT WAS ON A
SUNDAY AND AT THE PARK WHERE
THIS ONE STARTED AND THAT WENT
OFF WITHOUT A HITCH.
NOTHING OF NOTE AS FAR AS
VANDALISM, DESTRUCTION.
THE PROPERTY BEING LOOTED AND
LITTERED AS WE'VE SEEN TODAY.
A STARK, STARK CONTRAST FROM
MAYDAY OF 2016.
JENNIFER: WE COMING ON 5:00
HERE.
YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING WHAT WAS
A MADE DAY MARCH 2 NOW WHAT IS A
PROTEST IN THE STREETS OF
DOWNTOWN PORTLAND.
JEFF GIANOLA JOINS ME NOW.
WE'RE SEEING SOME THINGS WE HAVE
NOT SEEN IN WHITE A WHILE.
JEFF: IN MY 35 YEARS OF
COVERING
NEWS IN PORTLAND, I HAVE NEVER
SEEN A WINDOWS HATCHED --
SMASHED.
SOMEONE THROUGH A MOLOTOV
COCKTAIL INSIDE THAT BUILDING.
WE SAW
THAT POLICE VEHICLE BEING
SMASHED WITH A FLAIR THROWN
INSIDE.
THIS QUICKLY TURNED VIOLENT.
IT STARTED AS A PEACEFUL MARCH,
AND THEN AT 4:20, POLICE MAKING
THAT ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE
PERMIT HAS BEEN REVOKED.
GET TO THE SIDEWALK, MOVE OUT OF
THE AREA.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT
NOW.
JENNIFER: THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
ARRESTED.
IT WAS ABOUT 4:15 WHEN THINGS
GOT UGLY VERY QUICKLY.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS
EVERY YEAR.
THERE IS TYPICALLY A MAY DATE
MARCH FOR WORKERS RIGHTS AROUND
THE WORLD.
THIS HAS BECOME A RALLYING POINT
FOR IMMIGRANTS AS WELL.
IT HAS BEEN SMALLER IN YEARS
PAST AS GROUPS TO VERGED, BUT
NOW WE ARE SEEING LARGER CROWDS
AS IMMIGRANT GROUPS HAVE JOINED
IN WITH OTHER GROUPS LIKE
WOMEN'S ADVOCATES AND PEOPLE WHO
OPPOSE THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY.
THERE WERE 50 GROUPS ARE SO OUT
HERE AT NOON.
JEFF: WE SAW THE BONFIRE
WHERE
THEY THROUGH TRAFFIC CONES,
NEWSPAPER RACKS, ANYTHING ELSE
THEY COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON.
POLICE THEN MOVED IN.
OUR COLE MILLER RIGHT IN FRONT
OF ALL OF THAT.
LISA BALICK ALSO DOWNTOWN AS
WELL.
WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE?
[NO AUDIO]
JEFF:
WE HAVE LOST THE AUDIO
FROM LISA.
BACK UP IN HIS CHAPTER SIX, YOU
CAN SEE POLICE HAVE MOVED IN,
SCATTERING THE PROTESTERS.
THESE ARE THE ANARCHISTS, WHO
STARTED OFF PEACEFULLY AND THEN
WITHIN ABOUT 45 MINUTES QUICKLY
TURNED VIOLENT.
JENNIFER: THESE ANARCHISTS HAVE
DESTROYED A POLICE CAR.
YOU SAW THEM LIVE BREAKING
OUT
THE WINDOWS AND TRYING TO START
IT ON FIRE BY THROWING SOMETHING
IN LIGHT OF IT.
THEY HAVE ALSO DESTROYED
NUMEROUS WINDOWS AND PROPERTIES.
THEY HAVE ATTACKED POLICE WITH
LEAD BALLS AND FULL CANS OF SODA
AND OTHER ITEMS.
THAT IS WHEN POLICE DID MOVE IN.
YOU HEARD COAL SAYING HE IS A
BIT SURPRISED THEY HAVE NOT
MOVED IN FASTER WITHIN
THE PAST
20 MINUTES WHEN WE HAVE SEEN
SOME OF THE WORST VIOLENCE.
JEFF:
SOME OF THE PROTESTERS ARE
GRABBING ANYTHING THEY CAN GET A
HOLD OF.
THEY WOULD THEN PILE THAT IN THE
INTERSECTION, TAUNTING POLICE TO
MOVE FORWARD.
COME AT US, TRY TO PUT THIS FIRE
OUT.
WHEN THE RIGHT PLACE DO
THAT,
THEY MOVE BACK AND START ANOTHER
BARRICADE AT THE NEXT
INTERSECTION.
THIS IS A PATTERN WE HAVE SEEN
IN THE LAST HALF-HOUR.
THIS IS THE TARGET STORE IN
DOWNTOWN.
WE SAW PROTESTERS BREAK THESE
WINDOWS OUT WITH THEIR FEET.
THEN WE SAW ONE PROTESTER THROW
A LIGHTED OBJECT INSIDE THAT
TARGET STORE.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT
IN
DOWNTOWN PORTLAND IN ALL MY LIFE
OF COVERING THE NEWS.
PERHAPS THAT WAS A FLAIR HE
THREW IN THERE.
JENNIFER:
AFTER WE SAW SO MUCH
DAMAGE, STORES TOOK STEPS TO
BOARD UP THEIR WINDOWS.
THEY DID THAT IN SEATTLE IN
PREPARATION FOR SOME OF THE
MARCHES.
I DON'T THINK MANY STORES DID
THAT AROUND HERE.
I DON'T THINK THE EXPECTATION
WAS THAT THINGS WOULD GET QUITE
IS OUT OF HAND.
JEFF:
YOU ARE SEEING WHAT OF THE
FIRES THEY ARE STARTING TO PUT
OUT.
I BELIEVE THAT WAS IN THE AREA
OF THIRD AND MORRISON.
THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIG FIRES.
THERE HAVE BEEN TWO OR THREE
FIRES.
YOU KNOW HOW THIS VIOLENCE
STARTED OUT?
SOMEONE THROUGH A PEPSI CAN ADD
AN OFFICER.
THEN WE HEARD A WINDOW WAS OPEN
AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING AND THEN
ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE AFTER THAT.
THAT IS WHEN POLICE TOLD THE
PROBE -- THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS