Breaking: #Antifa in Portland have set the downtown @Apple store building on fire. There was security staff there. The business had only recently reopened following months of nightly rioting. The store also turned itself into a BLM memorial. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/xP1dkEBV6Z

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 17, 2021

In addition to arson attacks, smashing windows & looting, #antifa rioters in Portland also vandalized the First Christian Church. This is at least the third Christian house of worship to be violently targeted by antifa. This church provides meals weekly to the homeless.

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 17, 2021

• A white man in his 30s was shot dead by a police officer in the Lents Park neighborhood of Portland on Friday afternoon


• Soon after, angry protesters gathered at the scene and tried to breach an area cordoned off for investigation


• As night fell, tensions in the city spilled over, as protesters clashed with cops in the city's downtown area


• Rioters smashed in windows of businesses, burglarized stores and set large fires


• Four people were arrested after cops declared a riot at 9.30pm


• There were violent scenes in cities across the country as demonstrators gathered to protest recent police shootings in Chicago and Minneapolis


• 100 people were arrested in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis after cops declared an unlawful assembly there