Around 6:30 p.m. a group of pro-Palestinian protesters — plus some that were dressed in all black — left the South Park blocks and started marching through Downtown Portland.
“They knocked me and my boyfriend to the ground and started kicking us and hitting us and we were kind of getting back up and some people came and repelled them, and they attacked those people. Everybody kind of scuffled for a while, and we were standing back up and walking out of it and they attacked us again and took my bag.”
It was May Day.
Starbucks is in a running and public battle with unions. They wore all black and were covered.
This probably had nothing to do with Palestine or the anti-genocide protests m; but boy do people sure love making it seem violent…