Police have called for videos, photos or eyewitness accounts of the fatal shooting in Portland, Oregon, that happened after hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters.
Police have called for videos, photos or eyewitness accounts of the fatal shooting in Portland, Oregon, that happened after hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters. The shooting on Saturday night came about 15 minutes after a caravan of approximately 600 vehicles that were part of a pro-Trump rally left the city centre, police said. It wasn’t clear if the shooting was related to the clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters in the state’s largest city, which has become a flashpoint in the US BLM protests since George Floyd was killed in May in Minneapolis, and an increasing centrepiece in Mr Trump’s law-and-order re-election campaign theme. Police have not released any information about the case but said they were aware of videos on social media that showed the shooting. «It is still early in this investigation and I ask everyone to give the detectives time to do their important work before drawing conclusions about what took place,» said Police Chief Chuck Lovell. «If anyone can provide information about this case, I ask them to please reach out to our detectives. This violence is completely unacceptable and we are working diligently to find and apprehend the individual or individuals responsible.
