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She claims a flashbang grenade launched by police during a protest sent shrapnel into her body, gave her a concussion and caused long-term mental and physical stress.

Hundreds of people took to the streets at the Oregon Statehouse Thursday in support of May Day. It is an annual event, but many immigrants and farmworker advocacy groups say this year is different.

Originally a day to commemorate the fight for an eight-hour work day, May 1 encompasses a wide variety of demonstrations in the Pacific Northwest each year.

Prosecutors were unaware how Portland police officers handle protest footage and how city attorneys store it. Defense attorneys nonetheless say prosecutors failed to provide it in time.

Presidents Day is usually low-key, an observance more about mattress sales and car dealerships. But across the U.S. including in Eugene, protests against President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk were held.

Protestors gathered outside the Oregon State Capitol in Salem and near Sen. Ron Wyden's office in Portland.

The war in Gaza sparked protests at universities across the U.S. last school year, including at Portland State. Reports of both antisemitism and Islamophobia were rampant.

More than 60 people were arrested last April for blocking traffic to protest the war in Gaza. Many of them took diversion deals, but others chose to go to trial, in solidarity with members they claim were singled out for harsher punishments.

Protests have continued in Portland in the week since Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.

The peaceful demonstration led to a separate march through downtown that culminated with multiple arrests.