Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler was among those tear gassed after rioters set fires near a federal courthouse in the city.
Wheeler, a Democrat who also serves as the city’s police commissioner, joined a crowd of more than 1,000 people who gathered July 22 outside the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse before fires were ignited nearby. The rioters also repeatedly tried to rip down fencing that federal officers erected earlier in the day to try to protect the federal facility.
