“I think we are a very polarized society now - and I’m worried about what’s going to come in the next days and weeks and months.” “To cast doubt on this election has terrible consequences for our democracy,” he said. Portland protester Richard March said he came despite a heart a heart condition that makes him vulnerable to COVID-19. “It’s important to trust the process, and the system that has ensured free and fair elections in this country through the decades, even in times of great crisis,” Brown said in a statement. Kate Brown called out the National Guard to manage the unrest in Portland, which has been a scene of regular protests for months. One of the people who was arrested had a rifle with a magazine of ammunition, fireworks, a knife and was wearing a ballistics vest, the sheriff’s office said. Officers seized multiple firearms, ammunition, a knife, fireworks, body armor and gas masks from people who were arrested, a sheriff’s office statement said. Police made at least 10 arrests, according to a statement from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. In Portland, protesters smashed windows at businesses, hurled objects including fireworks at officers. No force or chemicals were used to make the arrests for walking on a freeway and being a public nuisance, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Thursday. In Minneapolis, police arrested more than 600 demonstrators who marched onto an interstate in Minneapolis Wednesday night protesting Trump’s threats to challenge the election results, as well as a variety of social injustices. Republicans filed suit in multiple states, preparing to contest election results. The protests came as the president insisted, without evidence, that there were major problems with voting and counting of ballots. One person arrested for allegedly damaging property was taken to a hospital after “experiencing a medical episode,” police said in a statement early Thursday. Police arrested dozens of people in Seattle, Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon overnight during protests demanding a tally of all votes in the US election, and smaller groups backing President Donald Trump returned to tabulation sites in closely contested states to insist counting be halted. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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