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Protesters and Portland police clashed again in Oregon’s largest city late Monday, with demonstrators hurling rocks, punching a police sergeant in the face and spraying a chemical irritant at officers, police said in a statement. Twenty four people were arrested.
The demonstration with about 150 protesters took place outside a police union building that has turned into a frequent protest site, police said in the statement issued Friday.
The protesters with makeshift shields gathered earlier for their demonstration in a park and officers moved in to take away the shields, police said.
A scuffle happened when officers tried to seize a sign that said “vote,” multiple videos from the scene showed, and police also used pepper spray, The Oregonian/Oregonian Live reported.
Police in their statement called the protesters’ walk from the park to the union building a “planned unpermitted march.” Most of those detained amid clashes were arrested on suspicion of interfering with a police officer and disorderly conduct.
Portland has been gripped by nightly protests for more than three months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
