Five years after the protest Portland, OreganThe city known for its history of civil disobedience is again at the center of a political milestrom as it is bracese for the arrival of federal soldiers deployed by the President Donald Trump,
The conservative influential person Nick Sorter was arrested late Thursday on charges of a disorganized conduct after months of the months of Portland’s immigration preventive facility. Portland police,
On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Christie Call Said that the agency would send additional federal agents and the Department of Justice was starting an investigation into civil rights under the circumstances around the arrest of Sorter, and is the Portland Police approach engaged in discrimination.
Meanwhile, a federal judge listened to arguments on Friday-but did not immediately rule-to temporarily block the members of 200 Oregon National Guard of Trump to temporarily block ice and protect other federal buildings.
The growth of federal law enforcement in Portland, population 636,000 and Oregon’s largest city, Chicago, follows the same rift in other cities including Chicago, Baltimor and Memphis. He deployed the National Guard at Los Angeles in summer and as part of his law enforcement acquisition in Washington, DC
A conservative arrested in Portland impressive
The 27 -year -old sorter, who is a regular guest on Fox News and who has more than 1 million followers in the X profile, was arrested on Thursday night along with two others outside the city’s immigration and customs enforcement building.
What was really led to arrests was not immediately clear. Portland police said in a news release that the authorities saw two people fighting and a man was knocked on the ground. Neither the men wanted to file a police report. The police left about three hours later, as the quarrels kept on breaking up, and arrested the sorter and two others.
The three were accused of disorganized conduct of second degree. According to the online record of the Mulnomah County Sheriff Office, Soter was released on its identity on Friday. An email seeking comments from the sorter sent on Friday became unanswered and no one responded to the phone number listed for him.
In a post on X on Friday morning, Sorter said his arrest proved that the Portland police are corrupt and controlled “Antifa Thugs that terrorize the roads”.
“You thought I would be silenced by arresting me and will run,” he wrote.
Sorter also said that Attorney General Palm Bondi had ordered his arrest and an inquiry into the circumstances of the Portland Police Bureau.
History of Portland protests gave rise to this moment
Portland exploded famous in 2020 in 2020 in 2020, in protest against night, in 2020. In his first term, Trump sent federal law enforcement to the city to protect the American district courtyard at the center of Portland, as protests attracted thousands of people after the killing of George Floid by the Minianpolis Police.
The presence of federal agents carried forward the situation, federal officials repeatedly fired rubber bullets and tore the protesters. The viral video caught military federal officials, often unknown, arrested people and hired them into vehicles.
At the same time, the Portland Police was unable to beefly beyond the Splinter groups of the Black-Clade protesters, which broke and collapsed in the city, sometimes breaking the windows, spraying graffiti and setting up small fire in moments that also captured the video and widely shared on social media.
A report by the Inspector General of Homeland Security found that while the federal government had legal rights to deploy officers, many of them had a lack of necessary training and equipment to complete the mission.
The tension reached a peak in September 2020 when a self-reliant member of the Anti-fascist movement shot 39-year-old Aaron “J” Danielson in the chest. Danielson and a friend were seen in the city to protect the caravan waving from a flag of Trump supporters shortly before the shooting.
The shooter, Michael Forest Reniel, was later shot and killed when he pulled a gun as a federal task force, which was attempted to catch him near Lacey, Washington.
A different reference for today’s opposition
The situation in Portland is now very different.
A continuous and low-level protests have taken place outside the Portland ice facility-Trump took over in January from far away from the city clashes. During the national protests around Trump’s military parade, they erupted protests in June, but have rarely attracted more than a few dozen people in the last two months.
Trump has turned his attention to the city once more, Portland is called the “war destroyed,” and a “war zone” that is “burning down” and “living in hell”. But local officials have suggested that many of his claims and social media posts are seen relying on images from 2020. Under a new mayor, the city has reduced the crime, and downtown has seen a decrease in the homeless snails and has increased leg traffic.
Most violent crime across the country has actually declined in recent years, including Portland, where a recent report by the Major Citys Chiefs Association found that housewives from January to June have decreased by 51% through June this year as compared to the same period in 2024.
City leaders have urged restraint and told the residents that this week “not take fodder” this week after the announcement that the National Guard will be sent to Portland.
Oregon wants to block the deployment of National Guard by Trump
On Friday, Judge Karin J. Judge of the US District Court. Emergut heard arguments about blocking the deployment of National Guard soldiers in Portland, where they would varyed federal buildings such as snow facilities.
After the Democratic village, Oregon filed a lawsuit on September 28 to stop the deployment. Tina Kotch failed to persuade Trump to close the deployment in a 10 -minute phone call on 27 September.
The Emergut did not release a ruling on Friday after a small hearing and said that it would issue an order that day or later in the weekend.
Meanwhile, the National Guard Sainik – not far away from Portland, was training on the Oregon coast in anticipation of deployment.
Sorter’s arrest on Thursday, however, means more federal law enforcement appearance in Portland.
In an X post, which rebuilt a video from protest and a photo of detained sort, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trisia McLaglin said that there would be an immediate increase in federal resources in the city, with increased customs and border security and immigration and customs and customs and customs.
“This violence will end under @Potus Trump,” McLaglin wrote.