Federal agents tear-gassed protesters again and made arrests as several hundred people demonstrated in downtown Portland late Wednesday and early Thursday, hours after state leaders announced federal agents would soon leave the city
, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN-TV reports.Governor Kate Brown said early Wednesday that all Customs and Border Protection & ICE agents would depart Portland and be replaced by Oregon State Police beginning Thursday. But acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said the agents would stay put"until we are assured that the Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other federal properties will no longer be attacked.
Federal officials declared an unlawful assembly at about 11:40 p.m. and asked"peaceful protesters" to leave the area. "I'm out here to stand for the United States Constitution and for people's right to free speech and to stand here and ask for better from our leaders," she told KOIN."This breaks my heart."
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