Daunte Wright’s shooting at Minnesota police rekindled angry protests in many U.S. cities Monday night, with a riot in Portland, Oregon, as a crowd of hundreds of police attacked, according to officials.
At least 40 people were arrested during a second night of violence in Brooklyn Center, the city on the outskirts of Minneapolis, where Wright was killed Sunday, and protesters gathered in other cities in a show of unity.
“Burn the enclosure on the ground, in every city and every village!” a crowd was filmed marching through Portland singing.
Demonstrations were also reported in Los Angeles, California, while areas of Seattle, Washington, were covered in anti-police graffiti while protesters dressed in black repeatedly blocked major roads, KIRO 7 said.
The photos also showed protesters, also in black clothing, circulating through a Washington, DC subway station as hundreds of people gathered in the capital.
At the Big Apple, dozens of protesters closed a portion of the Manhattan Bridge on Monday night in what was mostly a peaceful protest.
Only one woman, a 22-year-old girl, received subpoenas for obstruction of government administration, for resisting arrest and criminal possession of a weapon for having pepper spray, the NYPD said.
However, Portland, the troubled city that saw the most turbulent protests following the death of George Floyd last May, once again saw Antifa militants clash with police and attempt to storm government buildings Monday night .
Police said homeowners first reported that people marching through their area stole rocks and garden bricks to use as weapons against police in the city center.
They then attempted to attack the Penumbra Kelly building, which houses offices for several police agencies, including Portland police and the Multnomah County sheriff’s office.
Portland police reported that there was a crowd of “approximately 200 people, most acting aggressively against police.”
“People [threw] glass bottles, frozen water bottles, rocks, ball bearings and other objects, and fired fireworks parallel to the ground in the direction of the police and the building, ”said the department, which initially declared a illegal concentration.
“The conduct of the crowd did not improve, and the command of the incidents declared a riot.”
Officers responded with ammunition and flash-bang grenades and at one point protested the protesters, pushing them to the ground and macerating them, The Oregonian reported.
Elsewhere in the city, a group cut a link fence to access a parking lot in the historic building that houses the Portland Police Office traffic offices at the same time that the incident was taking place. riot, said the force.
The suspects, who fled before officers responded, had shattered the windows and cut the tires of several police vehicles.
In Seattle, another cradle of violent protests last year, police warned people to avoid an area where protesters repeatedly blocked traffic.
Pictures shared by the police showed graffiti such as “BLM” and the anti-police phrase “Fk 12.”
In DC, photographs showed a large group of protesters dressed in black jumping on turnstiles at a subway station while hundreds protested Monday night, Fox 5 said.
