Police union building broken into and burned during Portland riots

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Rioters in Portland set the city’s Police Association office on fire during riots over the weekend.

The Portland Police Department said that protesters gathered outside the union building around 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday after being cleared from a demonstration roughly two miles away from the building. When they arrived, the rioters cut off access to the area by lighting dumpsters on fire in the middle of the roads. They then broke down the doors of the facility and rushed inside and started a fire.

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