The downtown area of the city of Portland in Oregon is not a place you want to take your kids for an excursion to get ice cream. Dodging homeless encampments is the least of your worries. Avoiding the latest demonstration against whatever the issue of the day might be is the real challenge.
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Just make sure you bring a gas mask for the tear gas and a sturdy shield to guard against rubber bullets fired by police and the rocks and glass thrown by loony leftists. You’ll be alright. Probably.
On Saturday afternoon, a huge “No Kings” demonstration stepped off, and for a few hours things were fairly peaceful in Portland. But you knew it couldn’t last. Around 6:30 p.m., several hundred rioters,
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