For nearly 30 minutes, armed protesters from opposing groups — the far-right Proud Boys and far-left antifascists — clashed last weekend in the streets, business parking lots and school grounds of a diverse neighborhood in northeast Portland, Oregon. Noticeably missing was the Portland Police Bureau. “As soon as the fighting began and spilled out into the neighborhood, the police should have come in and stopped it,” said state Sen. Michael Dembrow, a Democrat who represents a large swath of the Parkrose community where the confrontation took place.
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Portland residents felt ‘abandoned’ by police during clash
