The protest began in the Elizabeth Caruthers Park before demonstrators marched towards the ICE building, media said.
Police declared a riot on Wednesday for a second night in the U. S. city of Portland after demanding the breakup of a protest near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building, calling it an unlawful assembly. Federal officers fired pepper balls to disperse a crowd of about 200 protesters in the city’s south, and set off a few smoke devices, the Oregonian newspaper said, adding that a rock was thrown and a window of the building broken. The protest began in the Elizabeth Caruthers Park before demonstrators marched towards the ICE building, media said.