HE IS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THINGS SO YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS,
CELL PHONES BREAKUP FROM TIME TO
TIME.
PORTLAND FIREFIGHTERS
, NOT ONLY
THE POLICE AND RIOT GEAR, BUT TO
HAVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PUTTING
OUT FIRE AFTER FIRE ALONG THE
WAY.
JENNIFER: WHAT IS INTERESTING
ABOUT THE FIREFIGHTERS AND MINIX
IS THAT THEY ARE WEARING
DIFFERENT GEAR THAN THEY HAVE
EVER WORN BEFORE.
THERE WERE TIMES IN THE PAST AT
DIFFERENT PROTESTS WERE PEOPLE
SAID WE CANNOT
TELL YOU APART
FROM THE RIGHT POLICE.
THIS TIME THEY WORE DIFFERENT
GEAR SO THAT THEY WOULD BE
SEPARATE FROM THE RIGHT POLICE
SO THEY COULD COME IN AND HELP
PEOPLE, IF PEOPLE NEEDED HELP ON
THE GROUND AS WELL AS TO COME IN
AND PUT OUT SOME OF THE FIRES
YOU SEE BURNING.
JEFF: I AM TRYING TO GET AN
UPDATE FROM PORTLAND POLICE ON
THE LATEST ARREST NUMBER.
WE WANT TO
USE THE WORD ARREST,
AND DETAINED.
OFFICIALLY THERE WERE THREE
ARRESTS.
THEN WE SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE
DETAINED WITH PLASTIC HANDCUFFS.
WE'RE NOT SURE IF THOSE PEOPLE
WILL BE ARRESTED BUT THEY
DEFINITELY WERE DETAINED.
WE SAW AT LEAST A DOZEN.
WE KNOW THERE WERE AT LEAST
THREE ARRESTS.
JENNIFER: POLICE ALSO SAYING
CRIMINAL ACTS ARE BEING
COMMITTED RIGHT NOW.
THAT WILL BE INVESTIGATED.
THEY ARE ASKING EVER WANT TO
SEND IN YOUR TIPS.
MAYBE WERE DOWN THERE AND TOOK
GOOD PICTURES OF WHAT WAS
HAPPENING.
MAYBE YOU HAVE GOOD VIDEO.
PORTLAND POLICE HAVE A SPECIFIC
WEBSITE WHERE THEY POST CERTAIN
PICTURES AND SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS
AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN THE
HOPES THAT THE PUBLIC CAN
IDENTIFY THEM THEN MAYBE MAKE AN
ARREST AND CHARGE THEM WITH A
SPECIFIC CRIMINAL ACT.
JEFF:
WE HAD SOME PRETTY VIOLENT
PROTESTS RIGHT AFTER THE ANOTHER
RATION.
WE REMEMBER THAT RIGHT AFTER --
RIGHT AFTER THE INAUGURATION.
BUT THAT PALES TO WHAT WE HAVE
SEEN THIS AFTERNOON.
WE WERE EXPECTING POSSIBLY SOME
VIOLENCE AND TROUBLE BUT NONE OF
US WERE EXPECTING THE VIOLENCE
TO THE EXTENT THAT WE HAVE SEEN
THIS AFTERNOON.
THE FIRES, THE BREAKING STORE
WINDOWS, THROWING A FLAYER
INSIDE A STORE.
WE HAVE VIDEO OF THEM
SMASHING A
PORTLAND POLICE SUV AND THROWING
A LIT FLARE INSIDE.
WE WERE NOT EXPECTING
ANYTHING
LIKE THAT AND WE SHOULD DO THE
VANDALISM TWO DIFFERENT CARS
INCLUDING A KOIN 6 NEWS CAR.
JENNIFER: AND
SOME OF WHAT YOU
MENTIONED BACK DURING THE
ELECTION AND THE INAUGURATION,
THEY ALWAYS START TO -- THEY
ALWAYS TRY TO START FIRES.
THIS IS THE LARGEST WE HAVE
SEEN.
JEFF: COLE, WHAT IS YOUR
LOCATION AGAIN?
COLE: WE ARE STILL HANGING OUT
AT SOUTHWEST FIFTH AND JEFFERSON
WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE A NORMAL DAY
NOW, A STARK CONTRAST TO A
HALF-HOUR AGO.
VEHICLES ARE MOVING FREELY
THROUGH HERE.
TRIMET BUSES RUNNING WITH LITTLE
TO NO INTERRUPTION.
ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO A FAR
DIFFERENT SCENE.
PEOPLE HAVE THINNED OUT.
NOT NEARLY THE SIZE OF THE CROWD
JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO.
IT WAS JUST OVER HERE
, THAT WEST
WALL OF CITY HALL WHERE PEOPLE
ARE LINED UP BEHIND THAT BUS
STOP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
BARRIER, LINED UP WITH THEIR
BACKS AGAINST THE WALL.
LIKE YOU SAID, BEING DETAINED.
THAT WAS A GOOD POINT YOU MADE,
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING
ARRESTED AND DETAINED.
WHEN STARTED TALKING ABOUT THAT
GOT ME WONDERING, YOU ARE
TALKING ABOUT THE ELECTION
PROTESTS, INAUGURATION DAY
PROTESTS.
NOTHING TO THE EXTENT THAT WE
HAVE SEEN TODAY, BUT A LOT OF
THOSE CHARGES WERE DROPPED
AGAINST THOSE PROTESTERS.
SO YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF THAT IS
GOING TO CHANGE WITH WHAT WE SAW
TODAY.
IT IS UNCLEAR IF THEY WERE ABLE
TO GET ANYONE WAS CAUSING
DAMAGE.
THAT WAS TAKING PLACE THE BETTER
PART OF AN HOUR AGO.
POLICE AT THAT POINT WERE TWO TO
THREE BLOCKS BEHIND THE CROWD.
OBVIOUSLY DID NOT
COVER AS MUCH
GROUND AS HE SAW ANOTHER
PROTESTS BUT THE DAMAGE HAS JUST
BEEN CATASTROPHIC, REALLY.
TO OUR CARS, TO THE POLICE
SUV,
THE TARGET GETTING SMASHED.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHAT KIND OF
ACTION PROSECUTORS WILL TAKE AND
ANYONE WHO WAS ACTUALLY
COMMITTING THOSE ACTS WERE
DETAINED.
BACK TO YOU.
JEFF: COLE, YOU MAKE GREAT
POINTS.
THE SPEED AT WHICH PORTLAND
POLICE ACTED, THE VIOLENCE
HAPPENED QUICKLY BUT PORTLAND
POLICE MOVED IN QUICKLY.
WITHIN ABOUT AN HOUR THIS HAD
DE-ESCALATED FROM EXTREMELY
VIOLENT TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING
NOW.
PORTLAND POLICE SAYING THINGS
CONTINUE TO DEESCALATE.
WE SEE ANOTHER PERSON BEING
DETAINED RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S A LIVE PICTURE.
JENNIFER: IT DE-ESCALATE IT
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