Portland police in SWAT gear on Friday, Nov. 10, 2016
Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB
Activists protested president-elect Donald Trump for the fifth evening in a row Saturday night in downtown Portland, despite calls earlier in the day from the city's mayor and police chief for calm.
Several hundred people took to the streets Saturday, and Portland Police say they arrested 71 people who failed to "obey lawful orders to vacate city streets" and for throwing bottles at officers, blocking streets and the city's light rail tracks, and other criminal behavior. So far, Police have arrested 113 people through the five nights of protests.
Dozens of people arrested in protests Saturday night and Sunday morning. Full details will be released at noon on Sunday.
— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) November 13, 2016
Police just cleared about 100 people out of Southwest Broadway with compression grenades and tear gas. pic.twitter.com/ht07q8Npuk
— Aaron Mesh (@AaronMesh) November 13, 2016
Of the 71, 67 were booked into the Multnomah County Jail, according to the PPB. The other five were released from custody after receiving criminal citations. The PPB says it also issued a traffic citation for to all 71 people for "Failing to Obey a Police Officer."
Saturday's protests followed a news conference that afternoon in which Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Marshman urged people to restrain themselves.
Hales praised the bureau’s measured response as peaceful protests have grown violent in the past few nights.
"They were confronted with real provocation and they met it with appropriate force. Yes, they had to use distraction devices, yes they had to use tear gas or its equivalent. It’s the right thing to do when they’ve having rocks and bottles thrown at them, spray painting on city hall and windows broken out in local businesses," he said.
Marshman said that people who were “looking to fight with police” would not be tolerated. Portland Police had a noticeably increased presence during Saturday's protests.
The group which organized the previous nights' protests, Portland's Resistance, was not officially involved in Saturday's protest. It planned to take Saturday night off following the shooting of one of the protestors Friday evening. The group has organized a vigil for the victim, who survived, on the Portland Waterfront Sunday evening at 4.
A second group has also planned a vigil and march for downtown Portland Sunday afternoon. In a post on the group's Facebook page, Families For Peaceful Protest called on people to join a vigil and march starting at 2 in the South Park Blocks. The group plans to march from their to Pioneer Square where they say the goal is to have participants chant, mingle and blow bubbles in a peaceful demonstration. The group says PPB strongly advised them not to hold the event out of concern for safety following five nights of protests, but it is moving forward with the event.