Tag Archives: Portland

No one has repped the Portland Trail Blazers like Damian Lillard. From the impressive collection of corporate partners, to the national TV spots, to repping the Trail Blazers like no other, to the arduous task of trying to recruit high-level talent to the Pacific Northwest and to displaying an unprecedented loyalty to a franchise that is failing to reciprocate that same level of commitment. Lillard is giving his all to be available and to keep faint championship aspirations alive in Portland,… Source link

Trevor Ariza is headed back to Houston. The Houston Rockets are finalizing a deal that will send Robert Covington to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Ariza and two future first-round draft picks, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Rockets will get a first-round pick in Wednesday’s draft and a future first-round pick. The deal will be finalized after Wednesday’s draft. The Rockets are finalizing a trade to send Robert Covington to Portland for Trevor Ariza and 2020… Source link

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents again repeatedly fired tear gas to break up rowdy protests in Portland, Oregon, that continued into the early morning Saturday as demonstrations that have happened every night for two months showed no signs of letting up. Authorities say six federal officers were injured and one person was arrested. Thousands gathered in front of the downtown federal courthouse beginning Friday evening. Demonstrations have happened in Oregon’s largest city nightly since… Source link

In the face of opposition from the mayor, the governor and the city’s leading newspaper, the Trump administration on Monday said it would keep using unidentified federal law enforcement officers to round up “anarchists” in Portland, Ore., and suggested it would expand the practice to other U.S. cities — ones with Democratic mayors.  “We’re going to have more federal law enforcement, that I can tell you,” President Trump said in the White House. “In Portland they’ve done a… Source link

Dozens of women wearing yellow linked arms to form a protective “wall of moms” around Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday as the protesters clashed with federal law enforcement. Video from the scene showed crowds chanting “Feds stay clear, moms are here!” and “Feds go home!” before protesters toppled a fence erected around the federal courthouse. Federal agents fired back with what appeared to be tear gas and flash bangs, the video showed. Hundreds of people had… Source link

Moms locked arms and chanted, ‘Feds stay clear! Moms are here!’ around Portland protestors As a part of President Trump’s executive order allowing federal officers to patrol cities in the wake of protesting, Portland has been consumed with unrest and violent government overreach. Protesters have been tear-gassed, assaulted, shot, and most recently it was reported that they were being removed from the streets in unmarked vehicles. It seems area moms have had enough and decided to step in… Source link