Oregon troopers will help quell the violence in Portland as part of an agreement reached on Wednesday between Gov. Kate Brown and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), even as the parties publicly diverged on when some federal officers will leave the city, where nightly riots have taken place since May.
Brown, a Democrat, and Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf spoke multiple times over the past 24 hours and agreed to a joint plan aimed at ending the unrest, which has caused tens of millions of dollars in damage and lost business to the downtown area.
