PORTLAND, Ore. — On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump called Portland "war ravaged," saying in a social media post that troops are needed to protect the city, particularly at federal facilities, including the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on the South Waterfront.
In Trump's social media post Saturday morning, he announced he's directing the federal government to send in "all necessary troops" and authorizing what he calls "Full Force" in Portland.
But Saturday night, a KGW crew that was live at the ICE facility described the scene, and it sounded much like it's been for months : small-scale nightly and mostly peaceful protests, with occasional vandalism, violence and arrests. On Saturday night, maybe 100 people showed up, a slightly higher number than