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turned up to the protests looking
for a f ight, but his attitude had
been changed by others he met at
the protests.
“That’s kind of the game,” he
said while sitting on the grass
drinking water after walking
around the city. “They mess with
us. We have to try and restrain
ourselves.”
The dynamics on the ground
are fluid as protests continue in
many parts of the country, includ-
ing Sacramento and Austin where
police arrested about 20 people on
Saturday. It was a week after a
Black Lives Matter protester and
military veteran, Garre tt Foste r,
was fatally shot in the city by a
motorist.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-
Ill.), who reportedly is under con-
sideration to serve as Joe Biden’s
running mate, harshly criticized
the Trump administration’s ag-
gressive response to protests in
cities such as Portland. “I fully
support the rights of people to
express their First Amendment
right peacefully,” she said in an
interview with Fox News’s Chris
Wallace on Sunday. “It’s why I
spent 23 years in the military.”
Duckworth said there were
plenty of other ways for federal
law enforcement agencies to work
with local officials to make cities
safer and allow peaceful protests
“wit hout federal troops coming in
in unmarked vehicles and kidnap-
ping peaceful protesters off the
streets, throwing them into an
unmarked van and driving off in
the middle of the night.”
She was referring to video foot-age and reports documenting un-
identified federal officers detain-
ing protesters off the streets and
placing them in unmarked vans in
Portland, which drew wide con-
demnation from civil liberties ad-
vocates and local officials. “If Pres-
ident Trump truly wants to go
after violence in our country, he
should call [Senate Majority Lead-
er] Mitch McConnell right now
and ask for a sensible vote on
uniform background checks,”
Duckworth said.
Yet Portland protesters note
that despite the focus on federal
law enforcement, the relationship
with city and state police officers
is also tense.
On Saturday evening, multiple
large protests were held across the
city, with public officials and oth-
ers demanding more change to
fight racism in the city. In the early
evening, thousands of protesters
had gathered at Laurelhurst Park
in Portland’s Southeast. They later
marched to the nearby Multno-
mah County Sheriff’s Of fice.
The Portland Police Bureau lat-
er declared the gathering unlaw-
ful and moved to disperse the
crowd with force. In chaotic
scenes, police officers wearing riot
gear forcibly dispersed the crowd
by pushing them back with
shields and pepper spray and de-
flated the tires of a car that they
said was blocking their path.
In a statement, the Portland
Police Bureau said that officers
outside the sheriff’s of fice had
been targeted with lasers and
glass bottles and that they had
arrested two protesters in the me-lee.
Other events ended without vi-
olence. The Portland chapter of
the NAACP held an event at Tom
McCall Waterfront Park in down-
town on Saturday evening, with
City Commissioner Jo Ann Hard-
esty and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
urging those angry at the system
to use political power to change it.
“The next thing we need you to do
is vote like your life depends on it,
because guess what, it does,”
Hardesty told the crowd.
At the nearby Mark O. Hatfield
Courthouse, a federal building
that has been a focal point of
protests for more than 60 consec-
utive nights, thousands had gath-
ered by late evening to listen to
speeches. Some families had
brought their children to the
event, while a large group of
drummers backed up frequent
call-and-response chants.
Around midnight , a lar ge group
broke off from the parks outside
the courthouse to march through
the city, periodically stopping to
listen to speeches.
There was no visible interac-
tion with law enforcement during
the march, during which the pro-
testers chanted and banged
drums as they walked through
much of the ritzy Pearl District
north of Portland’s downtown.
The streets were largely deserted,
but some passing cars blared their
horns in time with the chants and
some residents appeared at the
windows of apartment buildings
to cheer.
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AND ELI ROSENBERGportland, ore. — The protests
in downtown Portland may be
reaching a turning point: The
weekend brought none of the
large-scale tear gas and firework-
fueled clashes that marked the
previous two months of unrest, a
potential sign of calming tensions
after the Trump administration
pulled back federal law enforce-
ment officers.
But it’s not clear what direction
the protests in the city, which
show no sign of stopping, will take
next. The core demands of those
protesting against police violence
and racism are unresolved — and
they are increasingly divided
about tactics.
The protest’s epicenter down-
town near a federal courthouse
was quiet Saturday for the third
night in a row as state police opted
for a h ands-off approach, a drastic
contrast from last week, when fed-
eral law enforcement officers de-
ployed tear gas and pepper balls to
dispel aggressive overnight
crowds.
Yet another flash point
emerged in southeast Portland, as
city police rushed protesters with
riot shields and pepper spray be-
fore arresting two. Police say that
a large crowd of protesters had
descended on a local sheriff’s of-
fice and pointed lasers and
thrown glass bottles at officers.
But many protesters say it was
an overreaction from a police
force with a h istorically troubled
relationship with minority com-
munities that began long before
federal officers arrived in the city.
“Some protesters make the ar-
gument that if we were all just
peaceful, the police would stop
messing with us,” Kevin, a 22-year-
old carpenter who had arrived at
the downtown protest at 9 p.m.
Friday and stayed until the early
hours of Sunday. “But some nights
we are peaceful, and they still
mess with us!”
Kevin, who asked that his full
name not be published, said that
he could not be sure that the
violence would not return. He had
been to the protests every night
since early July, when he saw news
reports about the use of force by
federal law enforcement agencies,
and has seen some of the worst of
it.
Initially, he explained, hePo rtland unrest calms as federal agents pull back
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Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Ore., were quiet over the weekend, with no notable clashes.Tensions with state, local
police remain despite 3
days of no major clashesBY ERICA WERNER
AND ELI ROSENBERGHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin and White House Chief
of Staff Mark Meadows made
clear in separate interviews Sun-
day that they remain far apart on
a coronavirus relief deal that
would restore expired unemploy-
ment benefits for millions of
Americans.
The three spoke a d ay after a
rare weekend meeting at the
Capitol yielded some signs of
progress. They plan to meet
again M onday, but pointed to
multiple areas of disagreement
that suggest consensus remains
elusive, even while saying they
will continue to work toward a
deal.
“We still have a long ways to
go,” Meadows said on CBS’s “Face
the Nation.” “I’m not optimistic
that there will be a solution in the
very near term.”
Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has been
pushing for a comprehensive bill
to address multiple economic
and health-care needs, insisted
the administration continues to
resist a p ublic-health strategy to
attack the virus, which is surging
in many states.
“That is one of the points we
still have not come to any agree-
ment on,” Pelosi said on ABC’s
“This Week.”
Mnuchin defended the admin-
istr ation’s response to the pan-
demic, while pointing to Demo-
crats’ demands for $1 trillion in
new state and local aid as a
non-starter.
“The Democrats right now are
insisting on over $1 trillion to
state and local governments, and
that’s something we’re not going
to do,” Mnuchin said on ABC.
Pelosi, Mnuchin and Meadows
have met almost daily for the
past week at the Capitol along
with Senate Minority Leader
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) as
they try to craft a new coronavi-
rus relief bill.
After struggling to reach
agreement among themselves on
an overall bill, Republicans and
administration officials havebeen pushing for a short-term fix
to address the expiration of $
weekly enhanced unemployment
benefits, which lapsed Friday for
about 30 million workers.
Democrats continue to resist a
short-term approach, and reject-
ed an administration proposal to
extend the $600 benefit for an
additional week to give more
time to negotiate. Pelosi has said
that idea was pointless since the
parties were not close to a deal.
“We will be close to an agree-
ment when we have an agree-
ment,” Pelosi said Sunday.
Republicans have proposed re-
ducing the $600 weekly payment
to $200, or adopting a formula
that would amount to replacing
about two-thirds of a worker’s
wages before they were unem-
ployed. They have consistently
argued that the $600 enhanced
benefit, which comes on top of
whatever benefit is provided by
state unemployment systems, is
so generous it provides a d isin-
centive for jobless people to re-
turn to the workplace.
Mnuchin repeated that argu-
ment Sunday, while acknowledg-
ing it was not always the case.
“Let’s just face it, we know
factually there are cases where
people are overpaid. There are
cases where people are under-
paid,” Mnuchin said.For many low-wage workers,
the benefits have amounted to a
bump in pay from what they were
making at previous jobs. Studies
have estimated between 40 and
68 percent of people on unem-
ployment insurance are making
more with the extra $600 than
they were previously at work.
But some preliminary studies
on the issue have not found the
temporary bump is a disincen-
tive for a noticeable number of
workers. A recent study by three
Yale University economists
found that workers receiving the
extra benefits returned to work
at roughly the same rate as
others, finding “no evidence that
more generous benefits disincen-
tivized work.”
Pelosi suggested Democrats
could be open to an approach
that reduced the $600 over time
as the unemployment rate de-
clines, an idea that has been
embraced by a number of con-
gressional Democrats.
“The amount of money that is
given as an enhancement for
unemployment insurance should
relate to the rate of unemploy-
ment, so as that goes down you
can consider something less than
$600, but in this agreement it’s
$600,” Pelosi said.
Many economists say the expi-
ration of the enhanced benefits,which were approved by Con-
gress in March as part of the
$2 trillion Cares Act, will act as a
drain on the economy, since the
extra money allowed workers to
pay rent and buy groceries and
other necessities. A moratorium
on evictions also recently ex-
pired, and the administration
has discussed renewing that as
part of a short-term fix that could
include other elements as well,
such as more money for schools
and the small-business Paycheck
Protection Program.
House Democrats passed a
$3 trillion bill in May that would
have extended the $600 en-
hanced benefits through Janu-
ary. They are incensed that Re-
publicans waited months to start
negotiating again, only to quickly
run up against the unemploy-
ment insurance deadline and
start demanding a short-term
solution.
Mnuchin defended the GOP
approach, saying it made sense to
wait and see how the programs
Congress approved in the spring
had worked. Four bipartisan bills
passed in March and April inject-
ed around $3 trillion into the
economy.
“That has never been done in
the history of time,” Mnuchin
said.
But now, Mnuchin said, “The
president is determined to spend
what we need to spend and we’re
acting very quickly now.... We’re
going to work every day until we
reach a reasonable agreement
that’s good for the American
public.”
On Thursday, the Commerce
Department reported that the
U.S. economy shrank by a record
9.5 percent from April through
June. Most lawmakers of both
parties agree on the need for
more action from Congress, al-
though Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said
that about 20 Senate Republi-
cans believe no additional action
is needed, in part because of
deficit concerns.
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