Portland Mayor and Police Commissioner Ted Wheeler said rioters who this week set fire to a business that’s part of an apartment building were engaging in criminal acts.
“Another minority-owned, local business was destroyed by a violent group of individuals. A police officer was filmed repeatedly striking an individual at a protest. Even the building where I live, along with dozens of other families, was violently attacked,” Wheeler said in a rare statement about the riots, which have continued nearly every night since May 28 in various parts of the city.
