Portland rioters chant ‘Jacob Blake’ while setting fire to police association on 89th night of demos

Portland rioters last night chanted ‘Jacob Blake’ while setting fire to the police union building on the 89th night of demonstrations in the Oregon city. 

Police declared yet another riot as some 300 BLM protesters joined in the demonstrations which have not abated since the death of George Floyd in May. 

Last night they shouted Blake’s name – an unarmed black man shot seven times in the back by a white office in Wisconsin on Sunday – as two fires were set against the wall’s of the Portland Police Association building. 

 Someone climbed onto the association’s roof to unfurl a banner and the walls were spray-painted with obscenities, such as ‘F**k the police’ and ‘ACAB (All Cops Are B******s’. 

The fresh violence comes as Marquise Love, 25, who is accused of kicking a man unconscious in the city last week, had his bail set at $260,000 on charges of assault, coercion and rioting.

He is alleged to have been among the mob who chased down and attacked Adam Haner after he crashed his truck in downtown Portland on August 16. 

Love turned himself in last week and will appear in court on September 2.

Last night police warned protesters to leave the area of the police association or face ‘tear gas and impact weapons.’

Around 200 arrived in the residential area after marching from the Arbor Lodge Park.

Officers arrested several demonstrators and were able to disperse the crowds, setting up a chain-link fence around the police building.

Police said it was not immediately clear how much damage was done to the association building. 

The night before police had used tear gas to scatter demonstrators who hurled rocks, bottles and commercial-grade fireworks at officers and set fires in the streets as they marched on a precinct station in another night of violence.

Footage from the scene showed a fire burning an awning at the north precinct late Sunday night and protesters chanting ‘burn baby burn’ while police tried to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. 

Twenty-three people were arrested.

Protesters had marched to the precinct from a park, chanting several things including ‘Jacob Blake,’ who was shot by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday night. 

President Donald Trump’s administration in July deployed federal forces to Portland to crack down on the protests.

On Friday, he denounced the demonstrations as ‘crazy’ and said cities run by Democrats had descended into chaos. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is a Democrat.

Portland police said last week that they had declared riots 17 times between May 29 and August 19.