By Police1 Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. — Demonstrators protesting President Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday said police incited violence with flash bangs and pepper spray when they tried to cross a bridge.
Direct Action Alliance Spokesperson Jacob Bureros told KOIN 6 that the group wants Police Chief Mike Marshman fired because of the alleged excessive force.
“They created a confrontation where there didn’t need to be a confrontation and a lot of people got hurt because of it,” Bureros said.
Police said the protesters threw “rocks, bottles, flares and unknowns liquids” at police.
The group said if the mayor doesn’t fire Marshman by Tuesday night, they’ll “shut down the city” Wednesday.
“A decentralized, citywide occupation of squares, shutting down bridges, shutting down intersections, whatever it may be,” Bureros told the news station. “And it’s going to last for a very long time until the city takes responsibility for what happened that night.”