Rioters ripped through Minneapolis in the hours following the death of George Floyd last year. The daylight on May 28 shone on burned-out buildings and smoldering cars. Come nightfall, agitators descended on the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct, chased out the officers, and set the building ablaze. That night, as police retreated, a woman was found dead with signs of trauma inside a car, and another man was killed when rioters set fire to a pawnshop.
Little by little, the flames set by rioters flickered out, and the nightly assaults on Minneapolis began to wane. But across the country, in the cooler climes of Cascadia, the disorder was just heating up. Nearly 2,000 miles from Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, launched into a hundred consecutive days of rioting.
