Mon. June 18, 2018
Portland, OR -
Police in Portland, Oregon on Saturday broke up a standoff between preachers and revelers attending the city's annual Pride festival.
Portland's annual festival takes place at Tom McCall Waterfront Park directly following its annual parade.
@PDXAlerts, which sends tweets based on local police and fire dispatch calls, alerted followers to the incident.
"Portland – Police to Waterford Park – report of a group of protesters confronting people at the Pride Festival – somebody has sprayed mace," the account tweeted.
In another message, @PDXAlerts wrote that a caller said that protesters were "macing everything."
"Pride Festival Update – callers reporting they're hiding in a circle under a large pride flag – Arriving officers reporting a 'standoff' between preachers and the festival crowd," a second tweet announced about an hour later.
Raw Story posted video from the scene from Samantha Wallschlaeger. In the video, police are seen escorting the protesters as a crowd waves goodbye.
"The cops made the church protesters leave Portland Pride," Wallschlaeger tweeted.
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