Portland latest: Four held in shooting at anti-Trump march

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on a downtown Portland protest against the election of Republican Donald Trump (all times local):

11:45 a.m.

Police in Portland say they have detained four people in connection with a shooting that left one wounded during a protest of President-elect Donald Trump.

A news release says police believe the four are gang members.

The man who was shot early Saturday while participating in a march is recovering and is expected to survive. Police say a shooter was in a vehicle on the Morrison Bridge that spans the Willamette River and that there was a confrontation with someone in the protest march. A man got out of his vehicle and fired multiple shots before fleeing.

Police say 17 people have been arrested in Portland since protests began. Police said Saturday that nine people have been booked into the Multnomah County Jail. Six others were given criminal citations, and two juveniles were released to their parents.

Since Trump’s election Tuesday, thousands around the country, spurred by fear and outrage, have taken to the streets in largely non-violent protests.

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1:30 a.m.

Police in Portland said they are looking for a suspect who shot a man taking part in a protest march early Saturday against President-elect Donald Trump.

Police said said preliminary information indicated a suspect was in a car on the bridge, and there was a confrontation with a protest participant.

“The suspect got out of the vehicle and fired multiple shots, injuring the victim,” they said. He was taken to a Portland hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police said the suspect fled the area, likely in a car described as a gray or silver sedan. They said witnesses described the suspect as an African-American male in his late teens, 5-foot-8 and thin, wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt and saggy blue jeans.

Police tweeted that the protest had “effectively ended” by about 2 a.m. Earlier, they had said protesters were headed to the bridge, which spans the Willamette River.

On Friday night, police said they used flash-bang grenades to disperse a crowd filled with hundreds of people in the downtown area.

Spurred by fear and outrage, demonstrators around the country were marching to protest Trump’s victory.

The spirited demonstrations Friday on college campuses and along downtown streets were mostly peaceful following previous outbreaks of window-smashing and fire-setting.

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9:45 p.m.

Police began deploying a flurry of flash-bang grenades as well as tear gas to move hundreds of people protesting President-elect Donald Trump in downtown Portland that had ignored repeated orders to disperse.

News outlets livestreaming the event showed the bulk of the crowd scattering Friday night.

Portland police tweeted that the action came after people threw burning projectiles at officers.

In response, some yelled obscenities at police while others shouted to “keep it peaceful.”

Police had tweeted urging people attending an Il Divo concert at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to head west “if at all possible” to avoid the protest crowd.

A Central Oregon woman contacted NewsChannel 21 to say she was in downtown Portland, attending a concert with her daughter, and they came out to police “tear-gassing everybody,” not just protest participants.

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9:15 p.m.

Portland police began using flash-bang grenades in an effort to disperse a crowd downtown filled with hundreds of people protesting President-Elect Donald Trump.

Portland Police said on Twitter those were the only devices being used at the time to move protesters out of the area.

Police said three separate marches were taking place throughout the city.

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9 p.m.

Hundreds of protesters traveled through downtown Portland streets Friday night while others converged at an intersection, not budging as police told them the activity amounted to unlawful assembly.

Portland Police said vandalism and assault had taken place during the rally, which organizers had billed as peaceful earlier in the day.

Police were broadcasting to the crowd that arrests would be made if they did not move along but officers weren’t rushing to do so.

Oregon Department of Transportation officials closed portions of Interstates 5 and 84 as a precaution.

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Marchers tried again to take to the streets in Portland after a peaceful rally outside City Hall to protest the presidential election of Republican Donald Trump.

The difference Friday between the peaceful protest turned riot Thursday night was evident almost from the beginning as police made their presence known.

At about 7 p.m. police broadcast to marchers that they would facilitate a planned marching route and said that any deviating from that route would not be permitted.

Rally organizers had pledged earlier in the day to demonstrate in one location and refrain from marching.

More than two dozen protesters were arrested Thursday night and early Friday after some demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted buildings, lit a dumpster fire and threw objects at police.