Police have erected fences and barricades outside downtown Portland's Justice Center, which houses courtrooms and a jail. In late May, demonstrators broke into the building, causing damage and lighting a fire. The site has since been home to nightly standoffs between protesters and law enforcement.
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The walls, floors and pillars of downtown Portland's Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse are covered in anti-police graffiti, but there was almost no litter to be found early the afternoon of Sunday, June 14. About a half dozen volunteers, including children, wore gloves and masks as they picked up trash.
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Graffiti on downtown Portland's federal courthouse.
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Graffiti at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland.
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Protesters have covered statues in anti-police graffiti in downtown Portland.
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Protesters doused a sculpture honoring early Portland business leader William W. Chapman in red paint and messages against colonialism. The statue is in downtown's Chapman Square, which William Chapman sold to the city in 1870.
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Graffiti on the Portland Building on June 14, 2020.
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Anti-police graffiti covers barricades that line both sides of the street outside Portland City Hall. A rainbow flag inside the building's windows acknowledges June as LGBT Pride Month.
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Many businesses in downtown Portland have covered their doors and windows with plywood. Protesters have responded with graffiti, as at this H&M clothing store.
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A sign outside downtown Portland's Apple Store, which has been closed since the start of nightly protests against police brutality, and where protesters have painted plywood wall coverings in murals and have left tributes to their cause.
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A tribute to Breonna Taylor, a Black Kentucky woman who was shot and killed at her home by police who executed a no-knock warrant in March. The painting and messages are outside downtown Portland's Apple store. Taylor would have turned 27 on June 5.
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"Where is liberty and justice for all?" a street artist wrote next to a painting of Lady Liberty, blindfolded and bound. The artwork covers plywood walls that have been erected around downtown Portland's Pioneer Place mall.
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George Floyd's face is painted on plywood covering the walls of downtown Portland's Eddie Bauer store.
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A memorial to Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who police shot and killed at her Kentucky home in March after officers executed a no-knock warrant. She would have turned 27 years old on June 5, 2020.
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Paint and a tarp used by street artists who have covered plywood walls with political art outside Pioneer Place mall in downtown Portland.
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Early in protests against police brutality, demonstrators broke the window of downtown Portland's Apple Store. Now, instead of a wall of glass that looks in on high-tech gadgets, the store is lined with plywood that has been turned into an impromptu memorial for George Floyd, and a tribute to the quest for racial equality. June 14, 2020.
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A portrait of George Floyd has been painted on plywood that lines the glass windows of downtown Portland's Apple Store. June 14, 2020.
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Early in demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd, protesters smashed the windows and looted downtown Portland's Apple Store. The plywood that was put up to protect the building from further intrusion has since turned in to a memorial for Floyd and other Black people killed by law enforcement, as well as a tribute to the movement for racial equality and against police brutality.
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