A violent mob launched fireworks, hurled rocks, and stormed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland Saturday night.
The violent rioters injured multiple police officers and forced federal agents to fight to regain control.
This from slaynews.com.
According to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials:
[T]he group smashed glass, ignited smoke grenades, and physically broke into the federal building during what they called a ‘riot,’ a term the corporate media has predictably avoided.
Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, said:
Portland rioters are violently targeting federal law enforcement, and we won’t sit idly by.
Further:
You will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The riot followed a George Soros-funded “No Kings” protest billed as a “free speech” event.
Yet again, the so-called “protest” conveniently devolved into anarchist violence targeting ICE.
At least four federal law enforcement officers were injured as protesters turned violent near the ICE field office in Portland Saturday evening.
According to DHS:
The facility was forcibly entered, rocks were thrown, and explosives were launched.
Despite the assault, officers held the line and secured the building by nightfall.
“This wasn’t a protest,” McLaughlin said.
Further:
It was an organized, targeted attack on federal law enforcement.
Earlier in the day, Portland hosted a downtown protest with tens of thousands marching through the city under the “No Kings” banner.
But as night fell, the protest splintered into a dangerous siege of the ICE facility five miles away.
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) declared an unlawful assembly just before 6:30 p.m. and warned the crowd that they were prepared to use impact munitions and physical force if officers were attacked.
Despite warnings, the violence escalated:
At 7 p.m., officers reported a medical emergency inside the ICE facility and warned rioters not to block EMT access.
By 8 p.m., criminal activity—including assault and property destruction—had been observed. Police began targeted arrests and issued dispersal orders.
Officials have not yet disclosed how many arrests were made, if any.
As if the physical assault was not enough, ICE agents were doxxed across the city.
Posters revealed names, photos, and home addresses of federal officers, essentially offering them up to radical activists for retaliation.
DHS wrote in a fiery statement on X:
We will NOT be deterred by rioters’ intimidation and threats.
Further:
ICE immigration enforcement will only ramp up.
While federal law enforcement took the brunt of the attack, Portland’s city officials remained silent, as has become tradition in a city that has served as ground zero for far-left riots since 2020.
Meanwhile, Secretary Kristi Noem weighed in with a warning:
You will not stop us. You will not slow us down.
What took place Saturday in Portland was not a protest.
It was an orchestrated act of anti-American violence aimed at silencing ICE and the rule of law through mob action, doxxing, and direct assault.
Four officers are injured, a federal facility was attacked,
and not a single leftist leader has condemned it.
Final thoughts: Portland must be viewed as a test case for further anarchist behavior. Law enforcement must therefore intensify their response procedures.
Merely threatening radical mobs with action will not suffice. Intimidation will not work. Maintaining law and order within American communities will require a response of greater violence to any and all violence.
