The chaotic riots that consumed Portland, Ore., during the summer of 2020 reverberated through a trial over President Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into the city's streets.

Federal officials and government lawyers have portrayed Portland as under siege in seeking to persuade a judge that Trump’s takeover of the state’s soldiers and plans to deploy them are lawful and necessary to protect federal immigration facilities.

But local police officers testified that, already, the presence of federal officers has inflamed tensions with demonstrators.

Protests have been mostly peaceful, they said, and improved local policing tactics have helped keep it that way — unlike during the months-long protests five years ago, which some of them helped quell.

“It was just an entirely diff

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