Six protesters were arrested by police in Portland, Oregon, late on Thursday, as an appeal for calm from local leaders largely held despite growing outrage over federal immigration enforcement in the city after two people were shot by US border patrol agents.
On Friday afternoon, dozens of protesters gathered again outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, holding signs that denounced ICE agents as “thugs” and “Nazis”.
One sign taped to a pole simply displayed the name of the woman killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday: Renee Nicole Good. As a black pickup truck entered the facility, a man on an electric unicycle, wearing a red inflatable dragon costume and the Venezuelan flag, shouted: “Murderers!”
Late Friday, hundreds of marchers swelled the size of the protest outside the facility, chanting as they arrived: “Stand up on your feet!
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